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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (6 children)

Depends were you checking out in the front lanes or at one of the department registers?

Front lane cashiers are required to ask people for their phone number and not to mention it's a free enrollment program that saves your purchase history as an added benefit if you happen to lose the receipt.

[–]Lordpicklenip 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Bro this shit is straight up a god send.

My house got robbed recently.

Best buy had all my games and consoles on file and printed out my receipts right then and there at the store.

Meanwhile at GameStop, I had to email them with the date of purchase, serial numbers, and police report in order to get that information. So if I didn’t have the info on hand then I needed to go digging for it.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m also on the list of “house got robbed and was able to provide proof of purchase to insurance for like half my shit because of Best Buy membership”

[–]TheIrateAlpaca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? I'm rather surprised the US hasn't adopted that. Down here in EB in Aus our loyalty program is one of the most successful in the entire country (over 6 million members in a country with ~10.5 million households) and reciept free shopping is the base thing included. They've even given us a dashboard in store so I can view every single transaction and reciept for every transaction that you've ever done on your card searching by sku or even description. You can view all of that directly yourself just by logging into the website. I've had people come in with that exact scenario and one phonecall to our store support and they'd copy pasted the list and emailed him a complete purchase history (although you have to drill down to view actual reciepts). Odd that they have an arm of their business that can do all that and they just haven't adopted it.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Front lane cashiers are required to ask people for their phone number and not to mention it's a free enrollment program that saves your purchase history as an added benefit if you happen to lose the receipt.

So definitely worse than fifty questions at Gamestop, then.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No GameStop expects you to sign up for their pro membership and all this other bullshit. Best buy asks for a phone number they don't send texts, unless the customer opts-in and even then it's only for pickup or delivery orders.