I don't like that my Whole Foods receipts appear in my Amazon past orders
I never use any kind of loyalty cards, and never tried to use an Amazon account somehow to pay at Whole Foods (like didn't they have some kind of biometric palm reader experiment recently? anyway nothing like that, I would hate that and never use it even if my store had it) just my regular local small credit union debit card which happens to be the same card I use in Amazon.
Obviously we all know that Amazon owns Whole Foods so the mechanics of how this happens is no mystery or suprise. This is not a "How could this possibly happen?"
It just strikes me as a graphical surfacing of something that was always there just not so advertised.
I just wish to say that this is wrong. No one should be ok with this.
These are two unrelated activities.
Now consider what other wide ranging businesses Amazone is or has gotten in to. They could be your pharmacy, your insurance that pays or declines to pay that pharmacy, your debit card that pays for whatever the insurance didn't, and everything else you buy anywhere, with and maybe even that receives all your income too if you happen to work for Amazon.
The technical detail that all these different entities are owned by a parent entity should not be enough to just say "oh well it's fine then".
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Under "Data Sharing with Amazon"
Whole Foods Market may share customers' personal information with, and receive personal information from, Amazon and its affiliates
This part mentions tracking transactions:
if you self-identify as a Prime member at a Whole Foods Market store by scanning the designated QR code or providing the phone number associated with your Amazon account, or if you use a payment card that is saved in your Amazon wallet at a Whole Foods Market store, then your Whole Foods Market transaction information will be associated with your Amazon account and that data may be used by both Whole Foods Market and Amazon
You can opt-out by using a credit card that Amazon doesn't know about.
By using the Whole Foods Market Services, you are consenting to the practices described in the Privacy Notice.
So tantalor isn't necessarily "out of [their] mind" to consider shopping at Whole Foods an agreement to the statement.
Are you suggesting that it's reasonable to maintain a seperate debit card for every business one interacts with? Otherwise, that option for "opting out" is invalid and disingenuous.