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Terry_M

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5. It's unavoidable

Sun Feb 19, 2012, 12:04 AM

Feb 2012

Embrace it.
Even if you intentionally try to be electronically invisible, you can be tracked via the knowledge of who your friends are and the fact that your friends make no such attempts (per a recent article, software can take a good guess (not a guarantee) at where you are based on tracking your friends who publicly share the information).
The way I figure:
1. There will be less noise. Software will personalize and properly target advertising at me (don't you like it when Amazon shows lists of other stuff people bought when they purchased the product you're about to?)
2. In the end, there isn't a person looking this stuff over and trying to figure YOU out. There is software, and to the corporation and the software you are just shopper #2130503. You are NOT a person with a name who likes this and that.

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If having Store cards doesn't seem like a big deal to you read this. [View all] Justice wanted Feb 2012 OP

TARGET marketing, indeed Electric Monk Feb 2012 #1

Oh Yes. I know Target isn't the ONLY store doing it. All sort of companies are doing it. I'm sure Justice wanted Feb 2012 #3

I always have mixed feelings about these cards. I like the discounts in the grocery store RKP5637 Feb 2012 #2

Hey BUT think about this. Do you buy women's products? Do you have a buy your gorceries with a Justice wanted Feb 2012 #7

I don't like it either but I gave up. limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #14

It really unnerved me the other day when the grocery store automated check out RKP5637 Feb 2012 #18

No condoms? jberryhill Feb 2012 #36

Nope, message said NO, due to pending block of all birth control devices by R's. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2012 #51

My husband has one and use it for discount on Gas (he drives 40 mins to work and back home each Justice wanted Feb 2012 #21

I put them in my dog's name and gave the pooch a medical degree! MADem Feb 2012 #45

No, I just do it for food, that's all. Yep, but I know exactly what you mean. I find all of RKP5637 Feb 2012 #15

Seems you don't even need to have/use a store card Duer 157099 Feb 2012 #4

Target goes by credit card, too gvstn Feb 2012 #28

You and I seem to be the minority who can project ahead Duer 157099 Feb 2012 #39

Yup. Dick's Sporting goods does this. I couldn't find the receipt for AllyCat Feb 2012 #43

It's unavoidable Terry_M Feb 2012 #5

It IS avoidable Hawkowl Feb 2012 #46

The problem gvstn Feb 2012 #56

let's see, I buy calcium and zinc, cotton balls, additive-free soaps, lotions, etc., and I love the niyad Feb 2012 #6

'Intimate details?' elleng Feb 2012 #8

Amazon does the same thing richmwill Feb 2012 #9

And on this page I see an ad for Broadway strollers. Coincidence? virgogal Feb 2012 #10

right now the as is for a 'compassionate, christian ob-gyn: niyad Feb 2012 #12

But wait, why isn't the economy booming? napoleon_in_rags Feb 2012 #11

So? The small town general store manager did the same thing jberryhill Feb 2012 #13

True! But did Mr Drucker than turn around and Sell this knowledge and infomation to the highest Justice wanted Feb 2012 #16

OMG! Coupons for stuff I'm likely to buy? jberryhill Feb 2012 #19

You may not have a problem with that. I personally do not want so many companies and people Justice wanted Feb 2012 #22

Would every 28 days or so be a good guess jberryhill Feb 2012 #33

actually not for me. My cycle is VERY different than an average woman. Justice wanted Feb 2012 #49

Mr. Drucker didn't have anyone to sell his information to jmowreader Feb 2012 #31

No, but Mr Drucker gossiped with everybody in town csziggy Feb 2012 #32

No, THAT was Mr. Haney jberryhill Feb 2012 #37

Mr. Haney had Mr. Drucker print all the photos he took. Ikonoklast Feb 2012 #52

No wonder Haney was always after more money jberryhill Feb 2012 #55

I only have three store cards MorningGlow Feb 2012 #17

Me too. BiggJawn Feb 2012 #26

Why is this a bad thing? There are a lot of people that work at Target Gman Feb 2012 #20

You don't like getting coupons for stuff you might actually need to buy? FarCenter Feb 2012 #23

Not coming to my home with my name on it. No I'm sorry I personally think is too much Justice wanted Feb 2012 #25

What the stores know about me... BiggJawn Feb 2012 #24

They're not a big deal to me. I don't use them and the stores accept me. saras Feb 2012 #27

Scary. I was wondering why I got pet coupons. I have pets. nt Honeycombe8 Feb 2012 #29

But don't you see? jberryhill Feb 2012 #34

I don't have any "store cards", and... Rochester Feb 2012 #30

hmm quakerboy Feb 2012 #35

My buying habits must confuse the hell out of them NV Whino Feb 2012 #38

Do they even HAVE coupons for weed? jberryhill Feb 2012 #40

Same here... pipi_k Feb 2012 #57

Trying to expand your repertoire I guess NV Whino Feb 2012 #58

Courtesy Scan Please? alphafemale Feb 2012 #41

At Safeway, I just punch in my phone number... Comrade Grumpy Feb 2012 #42

This is not new, it has been going on for many years PuppyBismark Feb 2012 #44

That's why when I got the card I gave them fake info Raine Feb 2012 #47

What about the NSA? FrodosPet Feb 2012 #48

I'm not bothered by this at all. Codeine Feb 2012 #50

I don't care. YellowRubberDuckie Feb 2012 #53

I have only one store care for Kroger TexasProgresive Feb 2012 #54