"We have your rather large keychain here in the store..."

[Kire]

Since card-imposing grocery stores promise to return shoppers' keys if
they're lost, one enterprising protester decided to test the system and
see if they'd return a HUGE keychain. Here's his story.

Dear Katherine Albrecht:

This is in regards to my idea of mailing Kroger keychains back and forth
in order to protest.... I put a massive keychain in the mail April 1st,
and just yesterday I received a call from my local Kroger saying, and I
quote, "We have your rather large keychain here in the store, if you'd
like to come pick it up." I dearly wish you could have heard the sound
of this woman's voice on the phone, but when I went in to get it there
were no questions asked, just "here's your keys."

I'm not sure how much that keychain weighed but my best guess says over
a pound. I have a picture of it you'd like to see it.... Let me know if
you have heard anything on the legality of doing this, as I would dearly
love to be able to say I've contributed to the cause.

- R.C., Wichita, KS

We've posted a picture of R.C.'s keychain at our NoCards website here:

CASPIAN: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
Opposing supermarket "loyalty" cards and other retail surveillance
schemes since 1999

http://www.nocards.org/
http://www.spychips.com/

[ironman202]

1. perfectly legal

if the store or business wants to keep accepting any postage due materials they have to accept them all. part of the usps rules. I used to routinely tape business reply cards from the national right to life committee to bricks and drop them in the mail... or a first full of pennies in an envelope they provide.