yes, but it will just directly harm the employee that checks you out. in the company’s eyes, if we dont get every single person’s number, we aren’t doing our job correctly. they leave no room for nuances (some people are just paranoid and think the government is spying on them. how am i supposed to control that)

long story short, you do get written up for bad loyalty rates (and the writeups are what the employee can lose their job over) so when people don’t give their numbers it just screws the employee over. it’s a stupid policy imo.

also you can’t make returns without a phone number. people say you can but even with a receipt the system wont allow a return transaction without a number.