Do not do this at a sporting goods store. It may convince them that baseballs or footballs are in hot demand. This is the biggest flaw in their concept - the classification code applies to the business type and not the merchandise you buy. For example, when I look at my USAA checking account on-line, it tells me the payee name and category. H.E.B. comes back as uncategorized while Circle K is groceries. Walmart comes back as general merchandise while Barnes & Noble comes back as hobby. That is all from the debit card.Chemist45 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:14 pm Rafe wrote:You are correct. It won't work. IN fact - MC is even worse:Switching from VISA to MC may not work.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022 ... n-control/
So cash it is.
Also Flightmare wrote:Good idea. I'm going to be buying a lot of small items any time I go into a sporting goods store: Targets, lube, cleaner, brushes.I wonder what sort of panic would set in if people went to these stores and started making a significant number of small purchases on things like paper targets. Would they be concerned to see a large volume of transactions?
I need them anyway and usually buy a bunch at a time. Now it will be one at a time.
The Visa credit account has similar results, except it does show H.E.B. as a grocery store. But it shows MyHeritage.com (a genealogy web site) as general merchandise while Ancestry.com shows as just on-line services.
The more I think about it, the more I think my shopping habits will not change. This is basically a useless exercise for the liberals. Maybe I need to start checking with the stores what codes they use first and then decide how to do it. The best defense against data mining like this is deliberate misinformation (darn, do I have to look at Walmart for guns again? I swore I would never do that).