On the way back from a doctor’s appointment I dropped by the local Sears store to purchase a new garage door clicker for our car. I found the correct one and, even though I thought it was overpriced, I decided to purchase it. It was on my wife’s list of “to do” for me this week. The tough part came when I came to pay for it. First I was asked if I wanted to save lots of money by getting a Sear’s credit card. I am a firm believer in using only one credit card so I said no. Then I was asked if I wanted to join the points club, which had no fee. I brushed it off by saying my wife already was a member. The clerk then asked me for my home phone number and I gave it to her. Yes, we already were in the computer. Finally we got to paying for it. But on the credit card machine was a choice to submit my email address to Sears or not. I chose no and finally was allowed to pay for this overpriced item.
As I started to leave the store I remembered that I needed a replacement battery for one of the phones. I was directed to another department when I did find the proper battery. I felt successful until I came to pay for it. Yes, you guess it I had to go through the whole process of denying deals, credit cards and information all over again. I think Sears will be joining my list of stores, like Wal-Mart, to avoid at all cost.
In this “age of information”, information becomes a valuable product which can be purchased and sold. It is a scary thought that someone out there in cyberspace there is detailed information on each one of us. Privacy is something of the past.
We are partly to blame since many of us seek out more and more information on more and more stuff. We seem to suffer from a terrible case of TMI, Too Much Information.
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