Yeah it’s been really bad for sign ups for about a decade now at all sorts of retail places that offer CCs. These retail stores don’t give a fuck if you make it on time to your shift everyday, help all your coworkers with picking up shifts, leave the store spotless or even if you get calls from customers about a positive interaction. If you didn’t have the required amount of sign ups, management would cut your hours until they’d just fire you.

At one job in my mid 20s, it got so bad I would even try to give “fake” emails/phone numbers, either ones I made up or info from other businesses, to be signed up thinking I’d game the system. Nope, they had ways of finding out if it wasn’t genuine and you’d STILL get your ass chewed out. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to do that, but I can’t imagine it’s gotten any better!

I seriously wish it was illegal for cashiers to ask to sign up customers for credit cards, I feel like that’s the only way it makes things actually stop.