I want to start telling all these companies to leave me the f*** alone. I bought their product & I didn’t complain & I didn’t return it. Isn’t that good enough for them??

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    2 days ago

    Also why tf are phone numbers required for every online order now?

    What if i don’t want to have a phone number? These forms refuse VoIP numbers as well.

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      19 hours ago

      My local Chinese place, which only allows pickup when ordering online and only takes cash, not only requires a phone number; it requires that the phone number be verified via a texted PIN.

      For every transaction.

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        Margins at restaurants are vanishingly thin. Consistently wasting ingredients on 10 orders a day that can’t be traced back to a real person that are never picked up could potentially put them under

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      I don’t know for other people but in my area the delivery person almost always calls me before dripping the package to check if I’m home and ready to receive the package.

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      Because at some point someone said “if we have multiple ways to get in contact with our customer, we’ll be able to tell them about problems with their order faster.” And then it became industry standard, and everyone upstream of the order also wants a phone number, and so if you don’t put a mandatory phone number field in your form anymore, all the other ecommerce developers will laugh at you and call you mean names.