{"id":12397,"date":"2025-09-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12397"},"modified":"2025-08-31T22:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T04:28:24","slug":"the-holiday-blend-in-great-for-probing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/the-holiday-blend-in-great-for-probing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holiday Blend In: Great for Probing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Long holiday weekends provide plenty of opportunity for churners and manufactured spenders, like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Discount gift cards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Portal bonuses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sales on airfare and stays<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discount goods for resale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>They also provide another great unlikely benefit: In-store crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Say what now? Crowds are a benefit? Yup. In crowds, cashiers and customer service desk personnel just want to keep lines moving. That gives you two ways to play holidays for in-person games:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Just keep running back to back transactions at self check out. As long as you\u2019re quiet and not actively causing problems, you\u2019ll be ignored. Holidays can be huge volume days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try new things, if something hits wrong, customer service is too busy to make up rules and cause problems, they\u2019ll usually just clear the error and move on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck, and have a nice holiday friends!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized has-mobile-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1137\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_2345.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12399\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_2345.jpg 640w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_2345-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_2345-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Labor Day self checkout secondary effects, Kroger style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long holiday weekends provide plenty of opportunity for churners and manufactured spenders, like: They also provide another great unlikely benefit: In-store crowds. Say what now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12397"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12407,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12397\/revisions\/12407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}