Purchasing Deer Feed at TSC wanted name address phone number???

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So I stopped at TSC yesterday on way home and figured I would buy another bag of Deer Feed (corn, molasses and grain) and i get to the cash to checkout and she asks for phone number, name and address.
I refused saying I don't give that out to anyone and she wouldn't sell it to me, stating it was company policy.
So I ask to speak to the manager and she also confirmed that company policy required all that info for any livestock food..... I tried to explain deer are not livestock and got nowhere.

Needless to say today I stopped at the local farm center and bought some with no questions asked.

Any one else experience this or is it just this store?

JJ
 
jimmyjazz said:
So I stopped at TSC yesterday on way home and figured I would buy another bag of Deer Feed (corn, molasses and grain) and i get to the cash to checkout and she asks for phone number, name and address.
I refused saying I don't give that out to anyone and she wouldn't sell it to me, stating it was company policy.
So I ask to speak to the manager and she also confirmed that company policy required all that info for any livestock food..... I tried to explain deer are not livestock and got nowhere.

Needless to say today I stopped at the local farm center and bought some with no questions asked.

Any one else experience this or is it just this store?

JJ
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Business is free to ask you for whatever they like; just as you are free to tell them to "stuff-it" and take your business elsewhere. Suggestion.....drop by and show them the receipt from the other merchant.
 
It's all blow back from the Chinese selling poison pet food. TSC wants to know who you are in case there is a recall or lawsuit
 
If anyone asks for confidential personal information and I feel it's unnecessary to provide it I simply tell them to go pound sand.

Needless to say, they don't get my information or my money.
 
jimmyjazz said:
So I stopped at TSC yesterday on way home and figured I would buy another bag of Deer Feed (corn, molasses and grain) and i get to the cash to checkout and she asks for phone number, name and address.
I refused saying I don't give that out to anyone and she wouldn't sell it to me, stating it was company policy.
So I ask to speak to the manager and she also confirmed that company policy required all that info for any livestock food..... I tried to explain deer are not livestock and got nowhere.

Needless to say today I stopped at the local farm center and bought some with no questions asked.

Any one else experience this or is it just this store?

JJ
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Yes and no big deal for me... bought my bags of corn and I now have a freezer full of venison... now that's a big deal to me. Mmmmmmmm venison.
 
razorbeck said:
It's all blow back from the Chinese selling poison pet food. TSC wants to know who you are in case there is a recall or lawsuit
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This exactly... they aren't tracking you or your purchases, they don't give a f*** what you are doing with it. There are 2 reasons for them to request this info.

1) They want contact info in case there is a recall, as most people would be using it for domestic animals/livestock which could be valuable (and in close contact with lots of other animals, ie a large farm) and therefore it could be problematic if say hoof and mouth or mad cow or some other contagion was to somehow contaminate a certain lot of their packaged COB or what have you. Along with the contact info, they usually record the Lot #s on the bags purchased so they know who and how to contact if such a case were to arise.

2) There is, at least in BC, no tax on feed if it is for a registered farm so a lot of places keep a name and phone number on record so they don't have to ask you every time and probably also in case they are audited etc.

Long story short, it's not some big conspiracy. No tinfoil hats needed.
 
It isn't just TSC. In Ontario (and I believe the rest of Canada) any company selling livestock feed is required to take down your name and what you bought. As someone else mentioned many of them just keep your phone number and address on file, so they only ask for your name when you buy feed. The reason for this is in case there is a recall on the feed for any reason or if there is a disease that is linked to a specific mill. A few years back there was a disease that was wiping out large numbers of piglets and it was eventually traced to one mill. As for the deer feed not being for livestock, what you described sounds a lot like the "sweet feed" fed to horses or calf grower. It probably is one of those with a different tag on the bag and a higher price as well.

Jim
 
Workin Man said:
The reason for this is in case there is a recall on the feed for any reason or if there is a disease that is linked to a specific mill.
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Years ago I bought a bag of chicken layer grit (crushed stone of a very uniform size, for chickens to swallow for grinding help in the gizzard) which I was using for a potting mix (yes, plants). They asked for contact information for this exact reason. I don't know how you can screw up rocks, but since it's something ingested by farm animals...
 
TSC Deer Feed works great, less than $10 a bag, not bad.
Give them any name & number or shop elsewhere, easy fix.
TSC explained, the reason they ask for particulars is that the product is considered a livestock feed, in the event there is a recall or notice they made need to contact the buyers/farmers.
 
Should have given them Justin Turdeau's name and Sussex Dr as the address. So they know he is feeding all his lame animals in his party
 
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