Special Offers and Discrimination

Factual Questions
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A couple of years ago when supermarkets started making people sign up for those stupid cards I, being a starving student, gave in to them and got the stupid cards.

At the time I was not quite eighteen, but for some reason was able to get the cards anyway. I understand that they now require that you are a legal adult (and, yes, before someone makes fun, I guess that is the opposite of an illegal adult:)) to receive the card.

However, what if they hadn’t let me get a card when I tried to get one, and wouldn’t give me the cheaper price? Considering that they have no other criteria for giving someone a card (it’s not like they process an application or anything, they just give you the card), minors always have to pay the higher price, while others can choose to get the card.

Now, I am not so naive as to think that minors have protected rights in any way. However, what if such discrimination were made between, say, people of different skin colors? What are the laws about membership to clubs and special offers like these? Do the grocery store “clubs” really count as clubs?

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well out here you have to have a id and fill out a application …

and there are laws reguarding such conduct about the race color issue

now if this was say in 1940 they could of done it where it seregates by color and such
althouhg the costcos and such can say who they sell to

costco only sells to business anyone who works at the schools and such also the areospace industry ( ta least here )

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iamthe: You ask good questions, you rotten kid. Check your other thread for my comments on the FCRA of 1964.

nightshadea: You are not e e cummings. You have no credibility. Your posts are virtually unintelligible.
Your last post had six misspellings, zero punctuation, and zero capitalization. Get with the program and grow up. Your message is lost because you don’t understand the medium. I strongly suspect that you had something to say, but the world is not going to bend to your particular minimalist style so that it may be heard.

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You are not getting those lower prices for nothing. When you get the card, you give up certain information about yourself for the purpose of letting the store generate more information about you, based on your purchases, which may then be sold to other parties. Since recent Congressional activity has severly restircted the direct harvesting of consumer information on minors, those under 18 are not usually allowed to participate.

In other words, blame the gorvernment, the entity you expect to protect you from discrimination. In this case, just remove the words “from discrimination” from the first sentence in this paragraph and substitute “internet stalkers and unethical marketing putzes”.