Tuesday, June 30, 2015

A GIANT ripoff!

When I moved here I got a card from GIANT supermarket. I got discounts on food items & for every $100 I spent I got .10cents off a gallon of gas @ their pumps.

It has been sorta hit & miss on the gas discount. Sometimes it would say I have 10/20/30/40cents off & when I got to the pump & scanned my card it would say I got nothing!
Twice @ their Quick Stop locations I complained & they gave me the 10 cents off.

It happened again today! I had a receipt that said I have 40cents off
& I got nothing!

Here is the explanation I got when I insisted they call "Corporate"!
"The discount was already used today by Keelan McKendry."

What?!? I said. Keelan lives in North Carolina & she has nothing to do
with my grocery shopping!

Turns out...although I may have my own GIANT card, it is all tied into the address on file.
For the 3 plus years I have lived here, I'm just guessing, but there
have been about 9 people that have come & gone
And they all had GIANT cards!

It's sorta like if I were a frequent flyer & used Visa
To book a free flight & the airline told me
you have no points left because Maura,
who lives @ the same address & has a Visa card,
used your mileage points on a roundtrip
flight to San Francisco this past Tuesday!

Wh!@#$%!!!



3 comments:

EJM said...

AH, the fine print. Gets me every time.

Tshirtim said...

Let's do the math:
You drive 50 miles a week. 52 x 50= 2600 mi/yr.
25 mpg avg.
2600/25= 104 gal/yr
104 x .10= $10.40
$10.40 x 3 yr. = $31.20

Keelie owes you $31.20. Get it from her next time you see her. She'll be next to the grizzled, combat veteran, Army Ranger, Special Forces trainee with the captain bars.

Gerald Pea said...

I will 1st address EJM & "the fine print". Which points back to the guitar & a book on a table/shelf &BM's...I have already typed too many words...Now, Mr T...my beef is not with NC Keelan. My beef is with GIANT. But! If you want to bring up a grizzled, combine
vet, Forrest Ranger looking for bars in the woods like Captain Davy Crocket...I will remind you that I was a Spec 5 in the US Army
Logistical Corpse! And there ain't no Captain gonna be Special with his Troops if don't have a Chow Wagon...logistically speaking!