In a completely different vein...
Originally Posted by There may be a privacy cost if you park at this Trader Joe's - Los Angeles Times
After parking his car in the garage — seldom an easy task, as any SoCal TJ’s customer will attest — he was instructed by an attendant to download an app to his phone, register for service and use that for payment.

“Not wanting to give some random app a ton of personal information, I declined,” the Hollywood resident told me.

The parking-lot attendant, he said, “let me off with a warning that I wouldn’t be so lucky next time.”
[rant]The world is becoming an unfriendly place for non-cell phone owners!

I'm getting sick of asking for a menu and being pointed to a QR code.[/rant]

The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.

In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire