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home depot likes to collect email address for sending receipts (and spam). Along with that older style mag stripes will give out the name. Not sure about mail
by simcop2387 12y ago
home depot likes to collect email address for sending receipts (and spam). Along with that older style mag stripes will give out the name. Not sure about mailing info or how they'd get that.
The thing to do is to actually get stores to stop storing CC info at all. they should be able to process the payment and then forget the info at all so it never has to be stored so it can't be stolen. EMV is actually a move to force this as they'll no longer be able to get the number, just verify a transaction in theory.
- zippergz 12y agoI've made a lot of Home Depot purchases in the last month (yay, new credit cards for me!), and I don't recall ever being asked for an email address either by a cashier or the self-check kiosk. Maybe it's just my local stores don't do it, though.
- heywire 12y agoJust for another point of data, all of my purchases during the timeframe in question were on the Self-Checkout units, and I was given the option for eReceipt, which I took advantage of. What I noticed was that upon returning with the same card, my email address was remembered, which tells me that they must store some information to cross reference (hopefully just name + last 4 or similar). Typing this reminds me that I actually did use both of my cards at Home Depot, because I now remember being prompted again when I had used another card. Guess that means two new cards for me...