Stores should change their point-of-sale process to grab the zip from the credit card and only ask when paying by cash. Likewise, stores that ask for your phone and billing address could do the same.
Yeah, and a millionaire should buy our non-profit ass the software what would allow us to do that.
Do they still have the female gorilla at the Seattle zoo that spits up into her hand, and then eats it, ad infinitum?
Never heard of her. And anyway, shouldn’t that be ad nauseum?
I’ve always thought so too, but I’m not sure why.
Well, as long as we’re talking rational reasons, what might be the rational reason for me to expect to be prompted for my ZIP code, when the purpose for me being at a given location is related to things that happen at that location, and not things that happen in the ZIP code where my home is? What might be the rational reason for me to expect my purpose to be delayed while I am being brought up to speed on why the entity in question requires what I see as irrelevant data?
Granted, you have a rational reason for making the request, but what is rational about automatic compliance with any unexpected request?
When I go to a zoo, I carry a basic assumption that I chose to go there to goggle at the critters. When I go to a museum, I carry a basic assumption that I chose to go there to goggle at some purty pitchers. When I go to a store, I carry a basic assumption that I chose to go there to goggle at the stuff on the shelves, and to trade some of my money for some of it. I also carry an assumption that I would be able to do these things no matter what my ZIP code is. Hence, I assume that my ZIP code is irrelevant to the purpose of my visit. In what way are any of these irrational assumptions?
BTW, irrational or not, I’m happy to examine them, but please understand that it might hold up the line even longer. 