[Am-info] Video System Tracks Customer Behavior

[Erick Andrews]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:00:25 -0600, Stuart J. Hysom wrote:

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>Erick Andrews wrote:
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>> >Here's the deal, you can't get any merchandise at
>> >sale price unless you have your bar coded Kroger card.  How do you get
>> >it?  You fill out a form, giving them all your personal info.  It's not
>> >so you can get the sale price, it's so they know exactly EVERYTHING you
>> >buy, when and where.
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>No one I know gives the correct information on
>those forms.  I put down Micky Mouse as my name,
>and bogus info down in all the other fields,
>handed it to the guy, and he gave me a card.  They
>can use the info as aggregate data, but it is
>(probably) not traceable to me as an individual.
>
>Stuart

Actually, that's not my quote above, I think it's Geoff's.

However, using Mickey's name is fine by me as long as
it's not illegal, that is, no signature on the contract...if
contract it be.

Sort of like Hotmail.

-- 
Erick Andrews