Not if I paid cash. They don't know who I am.
The valuable data in Tesco's archive is that accompanied by a Club Card number because that uniquely identifies the personal details of the purchaser and links them to other purchases.
Andrew May :
AAMOI does anyone know whether supermarkets use credit card numbers for the same purpose, and if not, why not? I'm more interested in first-hand knowledge than in speculation or guesswork.
Apart from those who've swapped Club Cards with other people to deliberately pollute Tesco's database. And yes, those people do exist.
Supermarkets have no access to the personal details of the card holder, so connecting the number to purchases doesn't buy them anything. If they could do it via CC numbers, do you think they'd bother issuing loyalty cards?
The recent release of a completely innocent lad, banged up for murder (I can't recall his name) followed a sustained campaign by the Eye. They have highlighted some serious injustices over the time I've read it (about 30 years too).
Did they ever get a refund over Sonia Sutcliffe ?
It wouldn't be allowed under PCI-DSS rules.
But could they hash the CC number (where the hash had a high probablility of being 1-1 but not reversible) and use the hash?
Including Lockerbie.
That was the weirdest. I'm pretty sure I read an early report in the Eye that when the bodies were being gathered, a lot had their hands and feet chopped off - never heard about it again, and always wondered what the significance if any might be.
I suppose so ...
Huge spake thus:
They can and do print out "instant" tailored vouchers with receipts; these could be formulated by examining CC data although I suspect that loyalty cards are the usual route.
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So that'll be "No, I haven't heard of the Laffer curve", then.
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Nope, I have heard of it, and you are right I didn't quite get my reply right
The laffer curve postulates that a greater percentage of total revenue will be collected if the taxation rate is lower
It's still says nothing at all abort reaching the point where no-body at all tries to fiddle the system
tim
In your opinion. Which has exactly zero relevance to anything. Even if you do put "IS" in capitals.
So propose some *practical* changes to address the situation then. At present you're just bleating.
This is the nub of the point, really. So far what I've seen is a number of people jumping up and down and going on about "morality". You could have a justice system based on that, I suppose. I understand they have it in places like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Precisely. I'm glad *someone* gets my point.
There may not be any *practical* solutions since the people who would have to draft the laws also have the sort of ultra-high earnings and net worth that make these artificial tax avoidance schemes worthwhile.
Cameron did a great job of shooting himself in the foot with this one since the press will now be looking again very carefully at the offshore tax arrangements of all his large party donors.
For instance Lord Ashcroft and the don't ask don't tell saga:
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Not only a point you will probably never reach, but in fact for various reasons, you probably never want to reach either.
If you use both at the same transaction, then that gives them a heads up on future transactions made without the club card. However whether there is much value in that is debatable.
So propose some *practical* changes to address the situation then. At present you're just bleating.
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I can't accept your assertion that I am not entitled to bleat about something without actually proposing a solution - arguably bleating about it is the solution if the resultant "shame" causes the miscreant to change their ways (general comment, not in reference to any specific person or crime).
I do actually have ideas for a solution, but as they can't be implemented retrospectively, they have no place in a discussion of things that have taken place in the past.
tim
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