I foolishly gave Bath and Body Works my email, when I bought a gift for my daughter. They sent TONS of ads. But they taught me a lot.
***Never give your email to a retailer, unless you use their shipping.
***If you search the spam carefully enough, you can find the "Unsubscribe."Â Click it!
SEARS ! When I bought my new washer and dryer there, they wanted my e-mail address. It was OK to fill out the warranties but all the constant sales pitches and wanting me to open a credit card with them is just too much. I moved that one to Spam where it belongs.
What sucks is that while retailers will "encourage" you to give over your email address so you can receive special deals, most will REQUIRE their workers to get as many emails as possible.
They make it part of the job requirements, so if you don't hit their target numbers, you can be reprimanded and eventually fired if you don't get your numbers up. The retailer I worked for would assign people at the exit doors, clipboard in hand, so they could get your email as you were entering or exiting the store. It doesn't matter which retailer - they're all doing this because they are convinced you'll shop more because of all the spam they send. UGH! Glad I'm not doing that any more!
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