Forget NSA, how do Target, a motel, & whoever find my e-addy I didn't provide them?

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6. Regretfully, I use gmail, and a little over a year ago

I started noticing that I was getting some strange mail emails about airplane flights from Canada to Europe (I live in Texas), a furniture store in Edmonton, some others about Wedding gifts that I had bought in California, and some gardening committee meeting notes from an apartment management group in England. I finally realized that I was getting the mail for some other people using gmail with my same name but living in other countries (except the California one, hmmmm). I even spoke with the person in Canada to verify and let him know that I had his flight information. I wrote Google about the issue, but will not likely get i a response in this lifetime.

on edit: I don't know if the OP uses gmail, but I am curious, which is why I went on about my mail.

I shop Target a lot, but have not received any email about this stuff.