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I think paying in cash cuts down on trackin massively. Can you still be tracked? Yes. But are most stores going through the effort? I don't think so. Depends on the store too, I guess.
Maybe my tin foil hat is getting rusty, but to me it just feels like they'll just move on to the next dude who payed by card instead.
Does that mean that anonymous loyalty cards don't really add any extra tracking capabilities?
Then what is the benefit for retailers? That some people don't use those cards and are thus paying too much?
Most people give their real full name, phone number and email for any loyalty card wothout batting an eye, plus even with anonymized data it's useful to the owners to track correlation of purchases, time, location. Definitively what you said too, we all make mistakes (some more than others), every needless complication of a system is a disadvantage to the customer.