“Even some frum businesses keep phone listings of customers which are not always maintained on a confidential basis.”
I am at check out of the food store buying a milk container, before the check out lady rings up my items, her first question, “What is your phone number?” Morei v’Rabbosei, I am only buying a container of milk, why does she need my phone number? It’s not like I am buying a firearm and explosives. It’s a harmless container of milk!
Other stores ask for my email address. They make it as if I can’t buy the scotch tape unless I give them my email address!
Now don’t get me wrong, I am a polite person and if someone asks for my phone number or email, I would give it to them, but why is it that if I ask back the check out lady for HER phone number, she says, “I am not allowed to give it out”. A bit of a double standard, don’t you think?!
Now for singles, I think they should not just simply give their phone number, but their entire shidduch resume, starting with a list of yeshivas / seminaries they were at, the shul they belong to…like, if the store needs to know info about the customer, let the store use it to start a data base of shidduch info…but I am not in shidduchim, so why does it need my personal info…
What if the store asks for date of birth, employment history, banking info, famiiy size…? At what point would you say, “Genug shoin! Just hand me an application form and I will fill it so that I can buy my milk!”?