{"id":13868,"date":"2026-06-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13868"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:28:00","slug":"thursday-surfing-the-shutdown-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/thursday-surfing-the-shutdown-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: Surfing the Shutdown Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A favorite grocery manufactured spend technique has been, shall we say, in a tight spot for the last week.  There were dozens of reported shutdowns, and generally speaking each of those reports had lots of affected accounts. The scale is, shall we say, large. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t have any direct solution for this volley between big grocery and big spender, but I do have some advice for not looking like the same person when you\u2019re juggling multiple accounts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use incognito or separate browser profiles for each account, and be consistent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use a different IP address every time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create bulk accounts over time, not all at once<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vary device profiles, such as: Android, iPhone, Mac, and PC, and use varying browsers on each too<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use public Wi-Fi, or even better maybe an in-store Wi-Fi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoid using the same credit card for multiple accounts, Apple Pay is a great way to do this<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When scripting account creation, use a solution like <a href=\"https:\/\/camoufox.com\">camoufox<\/a>, or use Chrome CDP. Selenium is probably a bad idea.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try not to have the same store participate in the same transaction patterns on every single account<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, don\u2019t do what, shall we say, Ralph would do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Thursday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cec00fd2-29d8-473b-8430-f873dc90d8e3-69518-00001d1ae25469de_file-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cec00fd2-29d8-473b-8430-f873dc90d8e3-69518-00001d1ae25469de_file-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cec00fd2-29d8-473b-8430-f873dc90d8e3-69518-00001d1ae25469de_file.jpeg 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The, shall we say, culprit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite grocery manufactured spend technique has been, shall we say, in a tight spot for the last week. There were dozens of reported shutdowns,<\/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":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868","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=13868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13875,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868\/revisions\/13875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}