Just bought a 2m section of flexible tube for a gas stove, and the sales clerk asked first for my phone number, to which I replied “I don’t have one”. Then she asked me for my name, to which I replied “I’ll pay in cash”. She then insisted it was so “the cashier will call you by name”, to which I replied “I’m not giving you my name, I’ll pay in cash”. [Edit: she apparently got a bit upset when I refused to give info, but ended up entering “no name” according to the receipt]
Am I wrong for not wanting to give personal data for an item paid in cash, in person? No other hardware store ever asks me for my personal info.
In all likelihood, her boss gripes at her for not getting name and number from every customer, and his boss gives him shit for the same thing.
I worked at AutoZone for 8 years and our DM and up would hound us constantly about getting people’s phone numbers and emails and act like their weren’t people who were never going to give that information.
The worst part was that there was no incentive to annoy people like that for the cashier other than avoiding getting bitched out by the manager.