It is completely ridiculous that Radio Shack insists they can't make a cash sale without your phone number! I have given them an earful when I go to buy a phone cord or some batteries and the clerk looks up and asks "name?" I say, why do you need my name if I am paying with cash? They mention the database, the special deals etc. I say, no thanks, just sell me the damn phone cord. Sometimes I just stare them down and say "You do not need my name for this transaction." I think enough people have complained so that they now back down prety quickly.

As for those who think it is "paranoid" to worry about where purchasing information might end up, well, need I remind you all of the many rights to privacy we have all lost in the wake of 9-11? Do you honestly doubt if any one of us was suspected of some unpatriotic crime or act of terrorism that one of the first things they would do would be check out what we had bought in the last few months? Guilty until proven innocent and your reputation destroyed. God bless America.