Fwd: Case# 90.... - Balance rewards

 All consumers...beware!

Do not give out your vital statistics to every company that says they require them for their programs.

They all say it is just to make certain that no one under age is playing thei games for cash or prizes or in this case just an online account to keep tract of Reward Bonus Points!

Read on....and see that these companies not only retain our information and yours that we give them...they say that they do not sell our information or trade mailing lists...

BEWARE & WARNED!!

There is always some kind of fine print no one pays attention to, some companies do not even put in fine print at all.

Once a certain date period which can vary from company to company...they consider that promise not to share your information null and void.

Hence why my 7 year old address & the old phone number of that address is starting to pop up in places....such as Walgreens.

I did give this pharmacist a new PO BOX mailing address which is in my automatic signature here explaining we are about to move still again.

He did update our information as requested.

Folks be careful giving out your birth date and or Social Security Number.

There are very few things which we must give such information to such as to doctors, hospitals where we are treated, and certainly to drugstore that fills medical prescriptions.

But not for online points when you make purchases.

Protect yourself by acting responsibly and safely.

Write companies which you would like to do business with but refuse to be at risk..

If they do not correct what you request...Please add your smile or sillohette under FOLLOWERS please using Friend Connect.

Then start using the comment section to share your consumer complaints and what you have done about them.

When only one consumer complains they are seen as whiners they do not need as customers.

But when we all band together....they will listen.....eventually some companies will be forced to comply by the courts through class action suits.

I invite your comments and support...Prayers and contributions to help this cause can be sent to:

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1175

Madisonville, LA 70447

       USA

Forwarded conversation
Subject: Case# 90..... - Balance rewards
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From: <ContactUs@mail.walgreens.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:01 PM
To: estherstephanadacan@gmail.com

Dear Mrs William Gustavson,

I have received your case in which you do not find it fair to have to give your birthdate for online registration with the balance rewards program. This feature is for your security, and to ensure the points you earn go to the correct customer, it is also for Walgreens protection to ensure the customer is not under the age of thirteen. There is no work around for this, and I am afraid the birthdate is required. I apologize for my delayed response, and the trouble that it may have caused.

If you have any further questions or need additional assistance regarding this case please reply to this e-mail, or call me at the toll free number below, and reference case #: 907841.

I would also like to invite you to rate your service experience with me by taking a brief 4 question survey. Please know 9's mean outstanding!

If the above survey link does not work please copy this URL into your browser's address bar to view the survey:
https://walgreens.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e54QLgWheP0Npn7&Location=WCCCMSL2&agentID=agwyat6h&Case=907841

We at Walgreens.com look forward to serving all of your prescription, photo and drugstore needs. Be well.

Sincerely,

Alexander W.

http://www.walgreens.com
contactus@mail.walgreens.com
Toll-free: 877-778-4062

For our Online Privacy & Security Policy visit:
http://www.walgreens.com/topic/help/generalhelp/privacyandsecurity.jsp

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From: Mrs Stephanie Carroll Gustavson <estherstephanadacan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:31 AM
To: ContactUs@mail.walgreens.com

Actually Alexander W.

Other companies such as Office Maxx and a few others have obliged and given us our Max Perks online account without birth dates.

This is actually material for class action suits against many such companies requiring personal information for online accounts.

When I filled a prescription on November 16, 2013 at a local Walgreens for my husband...and our Pre-Hurricane Katrina Address was typed onto his medicine bottle automatically....Pharmacist nor his clerk asked for an updated address even though this was the first time this particular Walgreens had ever filled a prescription for either of us.

We had gone in there to discuss possibly having my husband's oral chemo filled there.

We have gone in spoken with pharmacist, Ryan, and received god counsel for over counter medical needs in the past.

But this was the first prescription filled.

A pre-operative pain killer for my husband.

But since our old address that we had permanently moved from on February 1, 2007 was printed on his bottle, I know that you retain all personal Identifying information for excessively long periods of time.

And you know that we do have a long history of spending money at Walgreens.

Sad that you too...no different than other large companies who are having to close many locations...due to customer dis-satisfaction,

Walgreens will likely be the next to be added to such list...no different than Winn-Dixie closing their Bogalusa, LA store by January 1, 2014.

I keep busy in between taking care of my suffering Vietnam Veteran husband blogging, Facebooking and Tweeting about companies who either have rude employees seated in high places, or whose policies...such as yours requiring public to place vital statistics in email and websites which put them at risk for fraud regardless what your internet security is because it is the poor who use Balance Rewards and similar programs.

Most folks in the same financial class as us...struggling are not educated as we are and therefore do not understand the risk of giving their vital information on the internet...

For chances are most poor people either do not have Internet Security on their own computer or they have sub-standard low cost security that is not as effective and so....

You are taking advantage of the poor who do not even have the understanding that you are abusing them.

I will be eventually placing these letters...yours and this reply of mine back to you.....all over the blogs, Facebook etc...

Sincerely,

Mrs William Gustavson

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1175

Madisonville, LA 70447

       USA

Food Manufacturers Processors Refusing To "Stop Using Enriched Four" & Adding High Amounts of Sugar & Salt to Products Are Causing The Health Deterioration of America!

Americans can blame their poor health in part on the food processors of this country.

When it is impossible to purchase milk without great amounts of salt added to it...cereals & breads too have either very high amounts of sugar and salt...and are often not whole grain....folks who want to eat healthy are not able to.

1 Cup of "SHUR Fine Brand"Lowfat1% Milk which was purchased at Bohning's Associated Food Stores of Ponchatoula Louisiana has 125 MG of salt in it.

Certainly some salt is natural it is an animal product.

But if you read the label on every brand of milk in whatever grocery nearest you...

You will see that the amount of salt in milk is all over the place.

Some dairies put less than this other quite a bit more than this.

I have seen milk with over 200 MG of salt per cup so you know they are adding salt hoping people will drink theirs like the taste & they will become addicted to the flavor of their unique salted milk instead of someone else's....makes theirs taste better!

When President Obama was elected for his first term, I was impressed that First Lady Michelle early in his presidency made a pitch to WalMart with a bunch of children in the background to lower the prices of fresh fruits.

For starters those prices did not last very long and since they are purchasing fruit and everything so so cheap over seas....farmers are not making enough to survive so they either picking too soon or too late and the fruit is not good....

There must be a frenzy down in those poor Caribbean & South American Countries to pick fruit too soon that typically much simply will never ripen on ones window sill....it rots before it ripens...

While other things get to market so over ripe that bananas are seeding.   And this...getting to market too late could be fault of the transportation....

Such as truck drivers who may lolly gag along part of their routes then REALLY PUSH on the highways later on....to make up for lost time!

We have all recently seen how some truck drivers are no longer the safety conscience polite drivers showing road courtesy anymore...we have all seen big trucks toppled over along highways in recent years because they were driving too fast...

Recently my husband & I saw one SPEEDING on the on ramp of I-12 in Louisiana coming from behind us just inches from our bumper...my husband pulled to the right side of the on ramp as dangerous as it is to pull over on a ramp....it would been more dangerous to have a large truck on our bumper going 45miles an hour he was trying to press my husband to on the ramp.

 I emphasize SOME truckers because we slept in our van long periods in truck stops in the past and found that most truck drivers act & live more respectfully and admirably than some college graduate professionals such as attorneys, physicians nurses or teachers today.

For the truckers bathrooms that I used...women's & my husband said the same for the men's trucker bathrooms...

They were far cleaner & neater than most church bathrooms we have used.

 And back to the fruit that got to market old....

We nearly broke our teeth biting into a Mexican banana that was seeding because it took so long to get to market....the center of the bananas had hard pieces....seeding.

My husband & I have noticed in many stores and businesses including WalMart, KMart,, Winn Dixies  some employees working very hard while other employees just stand or sit around socializing doing a bunch of nothing.

Late today in the Hammond Louisiana WalMart we noticed a senior woman about 55-65 years old push pulling a dolly placing under a high stack of pallets of can goods down aisle to stock shelves.

Strange that management of any store would place a female to that task at all.

From  a  standard of ethics such things should never happen and from a spiritual stand point any company who abuses their employees and customers by charging high prices to pay for labor salaries for people even some managers who do nothing in carrying the weight of work needing done...

Upon the backs of consumers in higher prices....

Such companies will fail!

You will not see our government bailing out WalMart the way they did the banks!

And if you think "Obama Care" is too costly and will never work....

If only you could perceive what a high percentage of diabetics & Hypertensive and heart patients would not suffer their health conditions if food processing companies were not putting so much junk including high amounts of sugar & salt in everything from bread, milk, fruit juices now have a tremendous amount of both sugar & salt added to them.

Take a look at Kellogg's Rice Krispies 11/4 cup dry has 190 MG Sodium and 4Grams of sugar!

Add milk and who can eat it without raising blood pressure and pushing someone who is pre-diabetic over the edge into diabetes.

And what about Kellogg's Special K Protein Shakes for patients who cannot eat enough.

The milk chocolate variety has 220 MG of sodium. and 18 Grams of sugar!

Wonderful potassium level but my husband who needs such drinks for the protein & potassium cannot drink these without his tinnitus ear ringing going very high.

Come on folks...we all must complain to manufacturers of all products we enjoy eating that could be produced healthier but the companies are either too lazy to change the way they do things or they just do not care....

They say salt is a preservative...but no one wants extra preservatives...we want to eat fresh food....

And when food is brought to market promptly, not raising prices even more because you have complied with consumer demands...

Everything will sell fresh be eaten fresh so the cost of the preservatives is actually an expense that you can delete.

People will be healthier health care costs for all companies in insurance benefits, sick leave & loss of productivity...all will go down making the bottom line for everyone better.

And then maybe our Federal Government won't be printing more & more money causing the value of our dollar to go down further to pay for the disease that food producers have caused.

How's about each of you who reads this sign as a FOLLOWER and then click comments and add your comments please...also share these blogs on Facebook Twitter etc etc...

Let's join forces and force the changes we all desire and need to be healthy!

Next time I will highlight different food producers sins and you too can do the same share the sins of producers of products you wish your family could eat safely!

not paying anyone not their own employees a fair wage