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Recently I was driving blithely
along, expelling my share of planet-warming carbon remnants into the
atmosphere, and I noticed a new sign at my friendly neighborhood
mega-corporation fossil fuel dispensary that was about to shorten my few
pleasurable moments left on this earth.
This the dispensary, which in an
act of friendliness, recently not only raised prices generally, citing
middle-eastern concerns having to do with some wholly predictable conflict, but
also specifically raised prices if I chose to use my formerly same-as-cash
debit card.
Like I say, friendly.
They had a new friendly offer. I
could get a certain number of cents off any gallon of gas by using my Safeway
club card rewards. How thoughtful. Now if I shopped for my groceries at one
giant non-local mega-corporation chain I could save money buying fuel from
another non-local mega-corporation chain. I suddenly felt way less gouged and
violated.
Or was that more?
Because, of course, the Safeway
trade-off means I can only use their club card to save myself from being gouged
at their store if I turn over my privacy by having them register my personal
buying history at the register. Now Safeway will know where and when I get my
gas too.
Funny thing though. What kind of
deal with the devil did Chevron make? They have a mini-mart right there.
They're essentially saying shop at our grocery competitor and we'll make less
money on the gas we sell you too.
I got gas there since. Probably for
the last time. Because now I'm even more inconvenienced. Yep. When I swipe my
debit card, I have to first press an extra button to start the transaction.
It tells them I don't have a
Safeway rewards card.
Another second of my rapidly
shortening life wasted.
Or should I say safewasted…
America, ya gotta love it.
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