Perhaps Sprint's started a trend?

[Talon]

http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca/savi...mentid=5156180

Interesting, although this line caught my eye:

Restricting returns. Some retailers... use technology supplied by The Return Exchange, an Irvine, Calif., company, to identify and refuse shoppers who abuse store return policies. A customer who wants to return an item is first asked to hand his or her driver's license to the clerk, who swipes it through The Return Exchange's Verify-1 device. The device records the consumer's name, address and age, as well as details of the transaction, and sends it to The Return Exchange's database, where the information is aggregated. If the transaction is deemed suspicious, the clerk can refuse to complete the transaction.

Oh great, another brilliant idea from the genius thinkers at No-Reality Unlimited Corp. Good idea to compile customer return info in theory, in practice every SC will pitch a fit over giving up their precious dl, whine about identity theft. And non-managers will still cave. Oh well I suppose this does represent some hope.

[Broomjockey]

You know what? I'm not an SC, I've done maybe one or two returns/exchanges to date, and I'm incredibly leery of that. If they're storing everything off my ID, and they get hacked, identity theft for everybody! Because large corporations are the targets of hacks more often than anything else, and with a treasure trove like that, I'm sure they'd get hammered until someone got something.