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saras

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18. Another reason, besides saving car trips, to shop for friends

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri Feb 17, 2012, 01:31 PM

Feb 2012

There's no reason every individual needs to buy every single item they ever use in a traceable manner, and in fact it's easier in a lot of ways to avoid it than to go along with it.

And the guy is stupid enough to think he owes TARGET an apology?!!!

I really have little sympathy, though. If you're going to go along with this sort of system, it is, without fail, going to keep getting more invasive and more manipulative. To stop developing it at this point would be commercial suicide.

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How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did [View all] n2doc Feb 2012 OP

This Target data mining and advertising ohheckyeah Feb 2012 #1

They are data mining the information they collected.. snooper2 Feb 2012 #3

That doesn't make it any less creepy. Brigid Feb 2012 #5

That's why everybody says to pay with cash- snooper2 Feb 2012 #6

Or at least a few prepaid debit cards with fake names :) n/t arcane1 Feb 2012 #11

I didn't say it was illegal or nobody else does it. ohheckyeah Feb 2012 #16

Was this guy creepy too? jberryhill Feb 2012 #4

Good point... redqueen Feb 2012 #13

It's not creepy, per se...just marketing. Atman Feb 2012 #7

I mentioned this on another thread RZM Feb 2012 #9

Pay cash and they have no way of knowing who you are. n/t Fla Dem Feb 2012 #10

A story I remember from 20 years or so ago ... zbdent Feb 2012 #2

It's a little creepy, but I get a big laugh when I buy baby food for my cats MH1 Feb 2012 #8

ahahahaha MadrasT Feb 2012 #26

My aunt always bought baby food for her beloved Siamese cat. Rhiannon12866 Feb 2012 #33

Simple cure to data mining-pay cash. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #12

It won't be completely effective jmowreader Feb 2012 #21

But they won't be ads tailored to you specifically. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #25

I actually LIKE tailored ads jmowreader Feb 2012 #27

95% of my mail never gets past the recycling can on my way back into the house. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #30

Can you fix the link? tammywammy Feb 2012 #14

sorry. Should be fixed n/t n2doc Feb 2012 #17

cotton balls? n/t orleans Feb 2012 #15

Another reason, besides saving car trips, to shop for friends saras Feb 2012 #18

I fail to see what Target did wrong joeglow3 Feb 2012 #19

Pay cash. When they ask for your zip code, say 90210. Thwart the basstids. nt MADem Feb 2012 #20

If you really want to fuck with them, buy baby food and rat poison Major Nikon Feb 2012 #22

Aaagh! nt MADem Feb 2012 #23

thanks for this information, it's helpful HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #24

I'd do it, better safe than sorry. Lunacee2012 Feb 2012 #29

I'd get to the bottom of it. Iris Feb 2012 #31

Wow, that's really creepy! Lunacee2012 Feb 2012 #28

Guess what? Politicians (particularly the GOP and Rove's and the Koch's various PACS) . . . ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2012 #32

I ordered Pizza Hut online an hour ago and got on DU now...guess what I find joeglow3 Feb 2012 #34

That you should have got on an hour ago...before you ordered the pizza? jmowreader Feb 2012 #35