Talk:Save Mart Supermarkets

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This message is from the Corporate Communications office of Save Mart Supermarkets. An unknown source has been entering information on this page that, as a privately-held company, Save Mart Supermarkets is not required to disclose publicly. Some of the information is erroneous, some is unverifiable, some may be considered defamatory. For accurate information about about Save Mart Supermarkets and its banners -- Save Mart, S-Mart Foods, Lucky, and FoodMaxx -- please visit www.savemart.com, www.luckysupermarkets.com, or www.foodmaxx.com. Savemart (talk) 15:52, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

6/23/09 -- This page was launched by a party unknown and outside Save Mart Supermarkets. When we (the communications group) first saw the article it had several glaring inaccuracies. It also had some internal information that leads us to believe it was either launched and/or edited initially by an "interested party" who certainly had a COI. In an effort to make lemonade out of the lemons handed to us, we have cleaned up the inaccuracies and added information to paint a more complete picture of our company. We believe the page is no more biased than the Safeway page, and we have made an effort to refrain from commenting on current issues and simply present the facts about our company's operations and how we position ourselves in the market. If we are not allowed to make any of those statements, then neither should Safeway or any other grocer with a page on Wikipedia. Savemart (talk) 16:23, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I would suggest you leave a point-by-point justification of future edits when removing content others have added. 208.118.163.99 (talk) 20:16, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Removed content is malicious and is easily verified as libel jamesmsims (talk) 17:23, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

More on the Lucky Supermarkets card reader theft and fraud
Over 500 customers were possibly affected involving 24 Lucky stores. Lucky inspected 224 stores in Northern California, apparently aware of skimming circuitry implanted in some of their card readers (made by VeriFone), which also used wireless Blutooth technology. Some customers later said Lucky should have alerted customers as soon as it knew of this (Lucky waited until Nov. 23, 2011). But the CFO of Lucky's corporate owner, Save Mart Supermarkets, Stephen Ackerman said they thought they had stopped the problem by hiring experts to remove the devices found at the kiosks. They later advised customers to check with their financial experts and to close their accounts. Customers claiming they were victimized said money was withdrawn from their accounts and there were attempts to log in to their accounts.

IMHO encryption and an EMV platform despite the added costs would circumvent a lot of theft and fraud arising from the use of credit and debit cards with magnetic strips.

REFERENCES:

"500-plus victims of card-swipe scam at Lucky" by Vivian Ho (Dec.9, 2011) 1) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/08/BA2A1MA5ML.DTL 2) http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_19480050?source=rss_viewed

"Lucky's urges some customers to close bank accounts in wake of hacking" by Peter Delevett (Dec.7, 2011)

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19480051

"Outwitted by high-tech scammers, Lucky delayed warning customers of security breach" by July Johnson (Dec. 6, 2011)

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20111206/ARTICLES/111209657 — Preceding unsigned comment added by DonL (talk • contribs) 07:42, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

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Actual Photos
The actual photos are now out of date, that store is now a Lucky California. I suggest finding photos of newer Save Marts. 76.133.164.115 (talk) 22:18, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Founders
Nick Tocco was original the founder at a later date Michael Piccoinini became a partner 2600:1700:85C0:2900:A40F:9C94:54F9:190 (talk) 16:18, 5 November 2023 (UTC)