Mildly Infuriating

My name's Mantis Toboggan, and my phone number is 8647 6767

"I'm Devin Null, but I prefer Dev, I live at 777 segfault drive, phone number (192) 168-0101."

Hopefully someone is going to lose a day tracking that down when they validate the database.

"what's your email?" "You don't need it"

We don’t need to bring ink and paper into this. I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d have to prove I bought a donut.

I don't think you will find someone on Lemmy who thinks you were in the wrong here. Unless you are buying something that is legally regulated and requires you to identify yourself there is no good reason to be demanding personal identifying information. I always just say "no thank you, I get enough junk mail and spam already" and try to keep it friendly. Every once in awhile they might insist and I tell them I am not going to do that and then they give up. I think most cashiers are at best ambivalent about their employer and don't really care about enforcing company policy, as long as you are friendly and respectful they would really rather just drop the issue and move on with their job.

It amazes me that you worry about possibly being in the wrong for not consenting to have your data collected for a purchase. A lot of this mess we're finding ourselves in this world would have been avoided if people would show assertiveness against such policies.

I use the same name that I use here.

my name ? Seymour Tit, Biggus Dickus, Donald Trump etal

I work at a retail store where we ask customers to give us some personal information. It genuinely does help as a proof-of-purchase if a customer wants to return something but has lost or forgotten their receipt. We can just look it up and handle their refund as usual.

However, I never push back if a customer simply doesn’t want to provide that information. I consider it a personal privacy issue. It’s completely reasonable for customers to be suspicious when data breaches happen every day. You are doing nothing wrong.

I would just play the witchy card, true names have power. Plus im onto that fey crap, you may not have my name, you can call me John. Now would you mind holding this iron horseshoe?

And no your not wrong, refusing to feed the infromation economy is the first steps to freeing yourself from it. It is effort, the modern world has too many traps, but you can do it.

if its to call out your name just give what you would to a coffe shop. does not need to be your full name or even your real name.

No OP, I don't provide info needlessly either.

I have an email alias that starts with annoying@ and the name I use with it is Jabroni Fictitious if someone is being really insistent and I want the thing without walking away.

I always give a fake name. Tell them your name is Willie Nobody. As for phone number, if you give them a xxx-555-xxxx number, those don't exist.

Relevant Curb Your Enthusiasm clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mstWOTSEVg4

Last time I bought something at Dunhelm Mill in the UK:
"Can I have your email address so we can send you the receipt?"
"Lol, no."

Edit to add: OP should have said: "Coincidentally, my name is Cash. Johnny Cash."

When this happens to me I just thank the cashier and leave

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius and you can call me at 0118999881999119725 3.

Oceans are now battlefields.