I said “no, I'm not from around here.”
She called to the next checkstand and asked if a customer there would let me use their discount cards.
So thanks to the clerk and a little old lady buying her groceries, I got a price break on my— things— and an even better opinion of Southern(ish) Hospitality.
Many of the cashiers at Shaw’s Supermarket here in Maine will just hand you a discount card if you don’t have one, no questions asked.
Oh....I was with my neighbor when he purchased ammo here in Maine at a local WalMart about a year ago (for his 9mm Beretta). He flashed the clerk his driver’s license for a few seconds and that was it. No scan made of the license, no information written down.