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From: schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Safeway Stores to Accept Charge Cards
Message-ID: <2057@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 7 Apr 91 06:14:21 GMT
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Reply-To: schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
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Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
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While not disputing a potential abuse of privacy by point of sale terminals,
what I have seen of Safeway's use of charge cards to pay for purchases suggests
that they are not presently furnishing consumer purchase data to the credit
card company.

In Monterey, CA, where I have used this service, the charge card terminal is
separate from the register, and appears to be part of a different system.  The
amount of purchase is not transfered over from the register to the charge
terminal and must be entered by hand by the checker.  The credit card number
is not transferred to the cash register receipt, which states only "MISC TENDER"


While I would not be surprised if the two systems were tied together in the
future, they do not appear to be at the present time.

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