When the Cashier Asks for Your Zip Code

SS109 wrote:

Trouble wrote: I always give them one from far away...like Kansas. I figure it totally screws up their demographics.

+1.
Or when Radio Shack asked for my phone number, I used to give out my childhood home number. Transylvania-6-5000.

Exactly, Radio Shack always asked for my phone number too (and I think address for their junk mail)....I always just said I was a homeless drifter....I enjoyed seeing their expressions.

who cares....If you don't want them to know, make one up. Not like they require proof...

I hate lawyers....

I like it when Great Clips ask for my phone number. I give my old "867-5309" number and the young kids are oblivious.

I am pretty sure that Great Clips only uses your phone number as a means to store your hair style prefence, razor settings etc., so they don't have to ask you every time. I'll double check with the oblivious kids this weekend.

Grady wrote: I got to thinking and maybe it has to do with different sales tax rates.

I don't think so. The tax rate you pay is based on the store where you're receiving the merchandise, not where you are taking your purchase. It makes a difference if you buy a car in Golden but live in ParkCo but if I purchase origami paper at Michaels in SW Plaza I pay their tax rate.

Just give them the zip code of 20500 and let the junk mail go there. After a while the bulkrate mail laws will change.