[Docbarleypop]

Ive workpart time for a high end kitchen store, we are required to ask for zip code and email addresses, frankly i dont care if you give me one or not, but it does annoy me when customers make a production out of it. I would never give out my phone number unless the store has a legitamate reason for contacting me and always give out my old college email address that i havent checked for years. the employee does benefit from collecting these info tidbits.

[Dr. Sivana]

but it does annoy me when customers make a production out of it.

I haven't made a production out of it unless a simple "No thank you" doesn't suffice.

I had not known that the employee gets a tangible benefit out of collecting the info. I will take that into consideration, as I have no animus against the employees and have worked as a cashier myself in my youth.