The app requires you to allow them access to your location so you can use the digital membership card. Nope. Guess ill stay analog with a card in my wallet, or just not shop there.

A lot of these Apps track everything you do which is why I never download any of them to my phone.

Mine is also scanning membership cards at the door. It’s probably to prevent membership sharing.

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Originally posted by calugo:
A lot of these Apps track everything you do which is why I never download any of them to my phone.

I used to use an app called GasBuddy to check gasoline prices until I learned that they not only track your driving habits, they sell the information to insurance companies.

https://www.techspot.com/news/...rance-companies.html

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
Mine is also scanning membership cards at the door. It’s probably to prevent membership sharing.

Ours checks them [photo on the back] at the register.
Many times my wife is off to get a pizza while I check out. They scan her card, look at me & ask if she's with me [she & her brother split the membership, so I don't have a card]

They can track me in my house as far as I care if it avoids me waiting in line with the unwashed dolts who have zero clue how to check out. Oh, yeah, that is only at Sam's for some inexplicable reason. Come on Costco!


Also, like most Apps these days, there is an option to allow location settings only when using the app.

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Originally posted by CoolRich59:

I used to use an app called GasBuddy to check gasoline prices until I learned that they not only track your driving habits, they sell the information to insurance companies.

You can check fuel prices from your computer at home, using the GasBuddy website instead of the phone app. Your location will be your armchair. Track THIS, yo!

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
The app requires you to allow them access to your location so you can use the digital membership card. Nope. Guess ill stay analog with a card in my wallet, or just not shop there.

It needs to access where you are so that it can pull up the closest Costco stores and their inventory.

If you have an iPhone, you can select that it knows your location only when you're using the app instead of always.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
The app requires you to allow them access to your location so you can use the digital membership card. Nope. Guess ill stay analog with a card in my wallet, or just not shop there.

It needs to access where you are so that it can pull up the closest Costco stores and their inventory.

If you have an iPhone, you can select that it knows your location only when you're using the app instead of always.

And local pricing. If anyone finds me that interesting to track, let them have at it........

I caught a ride from an old retired guy a few weeks back.
We have lunch once a month.
He had two phone in his car and a third one on him.


So I inquired ,

One for friends and family,
One for any purchasing.( Amazon etc)
And a third for emails, texts and apps.


Two in foil pouches , turned completely off.

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Originally posted by bendable:
I caught a ride from an old retired guy a few weeks back.
We have lunch once a month.
He had two phone in his car and a third one on him.


So I inquired ,

One for friends and family,
One for any purchasing.( Amazon etc)
And a third for emails, texts and apps.


Two in foil pouches , turned completely off.

That's absolutely ridiculous.

Well that was my thinking as well,

His son does it, he does it because he works as a contractor for government computer work.

( He knows super classified stuff)
But
For plain ole "Joe Bagadonuts" it seems way over the top.

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
The app requires you to allow them access to your location so you can use the digital membership card. Nope. Guess I’ll stay analog with a card in my wallet, or just not shop there.

You want to enter a Costco, but you don’t want them to know you’re there?

I really don’t understand.

I just checked my settings, and all of my apps are allowed access to my location either never, or only when I’m using the app.

I use Gas Buddy and I want it to know where I am when I’m using it to find cheap fuel. It doesn’t track me when I’m not using the app.

And I’m okay with Costco knowing I’m at Costco while I’m shopping at Costco.

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Originally posted by honestlou:
I use Gas Buddy and I want it to know where I am when I’m using it to find cheap fuel. It doesn’t track me when I’m not using the app.

I'm not an expert on these things. But it isn't the app tracking you it's the phone. And the phone always tracks you because it needs to know where you are relative to the cellular network.

The problem is when you activate an app it needs to connect to the servers are whatever service you are using (GasBuddy, Costco, whatever) in order to work. At that time it sends all the tracking data from your phone to the servers as well.

What makes you think they won't know your location as soon as you scan your "analog" membership card as you walk in/out of the store?

True is the fact that you even have a phone on you you're already on the grid.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

That's absolutely ridiculous.

I think he should probably buy and wear a tinfoil hat while he’s at it.

You know what I do a lot of the time? You won’t believe it! I leave the got damn phone at home! That’s right, it stays on the wireless charger in the bedroom. I have an Apple Watch with cellular and it’s on my wrist if I’m going to be away from the house for hours. Just to get home automation alerts like my cameras/surveillance system, home alarm, vehicle alarm(s). But many times to run errands I just leave all the shit at home. When a friend asked me about this he said “What would you do if there was an emergency!” I said, easy, every stupid mother fucker in this country has my precious on them 24/7, 365, so if there were a medical emergency or something I’ll just tell someone around me to call the paramedics or LE. My goodness, people are addicted to these fucking computers. 3 of them on you and 2 in tinfoil? LMMFAO!