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After reading Colsgirl's post, I went in to check my card settings and found a pcplus card # I don't recognize. I checked my transactions for the last 12 months and that card has not been used at least during that period.
I physically have my pcplus card on me as well as 2 of the key tags fobs - although I think I might have had 3 fobs when I first got my card and they later changed it to 2 - anyone else remember this? I could be mistaken. The fobs do have a different number than the big card but they are still different from the unfamiliar one on my account.
I have never lost or replaced my pcplus card - can’t figure out where that card # came from. And I am the only user on that account.
At one of the Provigo stores I shop at, I have seen several cashiers scan either their own card or a ‘new’ card when people don’t have a pcplus card. Apparently they are suppose to give the card to the customer but I have never seen that. I’ve seen them use the same card for multiple customers and never once have I seen them offer the card to the customer. When they have done it to me - its happened multiple times - they always have to cancel/undo the transaction when they see I have a pcplus card. I’ve not seen this happen at other Provigo stores I shop at. Someone I know saw this at her store also. We think they are ‘stealing’ points. Anyone else seen this happen at their store?
But I don’t see how one of those cards could end up on my account.
Any thoughts?
Silk
Lots of bonus points offers as of this morning. Check your accounts. Here is what I got:
1500 pts wus $5 on Dentastix
1000 pts wus $5 on Dentalife
1000 pts wus $5 on Camembert Extra
1000 pts wus $3 on Beggin' Strips
1000 pts wus $4 on holiday funbooks :lifesavers, bubba bubba, skittle
1500 pts wus $4 on M&M's holidays collection.
All expire on 6 days.
They would have to be added to your account. But like SDM and other cards, it is against the rules to swipe your own card as a cashier. Some LCBO employees were recently fired and face criminal charges for doing it with Air Miles cards.
Have you ever reinstalled the app on a phone or got a new phone with it on? A week or so ago, my phone broke during a routine Android update and needed a complete reset. My pc plus account recognized it as a new phone when I logged in and gave me a new card number for it. Not a huge issue, just deleted the old one but I only noticed it was an additional card when I was going to do a screenshot to show how to put cards into earn only.
I use the PCs debit and those keychain cards easily break
Thanks FP. I DLed the app to a tablet this past summer - could that be the reason for the unknown card #? But I don't use the tablet for scanning my # in-store - don't even know if it's do-able on a tablet but I guess it is, just don't know how. I DLed it to have the 'save' this offer for next week' and 'don't give me this offer again' options.
But the original card # and fob #s are still on my account which is good because I use the card and occasionally the fob (which I don't use as a key tag).
As for the cashiers scanning cards for themselves - I spoke to the store owner after seeing a manager do it many times on multiple occasions and the owner told me that the cards are then given to the customers but I told him no that's not happening. He said he would check it out. But when I saw multiple cashiers doing it as well as 2 of the store managers, I thought there must be a legit reason so I never followed up.
But a couple of weeks ago I mentioned it in general to one of the mangers who has done it to me a couple of times looking for an explanation and he said "That's not suppose to happen" and then it confirm my suspicions of fraud.
I haven't seen it happen in a while. If it does, I'm going to contact the store owner again and maybe even Loblaw's.
Silk
Yes, any device you add your account to gets an e-card. So it's probably that. You should delete any card that you don't use though, even the little key cards. Safer to have them deactivated and pick up new ones if needed.
My Account --> Transactions: All Transactions has a list of all the points earned by each card/device
Thanks again, FP. I have everything except the tags set to earn points only. The tag rarely sees the light of day - I did have to use it once when I temporarily misplaced my card. But it's set to earn and redeem as I expect to hit a redemption level this week.
If I de-active the card related to my tablet - will it generate a new one whenever I go into my account from my tablet? And if I decided one day to use my tablet in-store, how would I get a new number? Can you un-de-activate a card?
Silk
I was just in my account on the tablet and yep, that number shows up as my card - and the physical card number and key tag # don't show. And by accident i discovered how to call up the bar code to scan the card on my tablet.
Just out of curiosity - do you always get a new card # when it's through an app on a device? Like, would that happen if I DL the optimum app? (Should I post this in the SDM thread?)
Silk