On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 3:18:59 PM UTC-5, casa de suspiros wrote:
> On 2/8/2018 1:08 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 2/8/2018 1:35 PM, graham wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >> Beware the special membership/points cards, airmiles etc. You'll be
> >> pestered by e-mailed flyers and offers just for you as they have
> >> tracked your buying habits!
> >
> > The store I use has a card.Â* If they are tracking me, I don't really
> > care if they know vanilla is my favorite ice cream flavor.Â* They do send
> > me and email every Thursday though, with the latest coupons.Â* I can load
> > them on my card and they are applied automatically at checkout.Â* They
> > often have freebies on new products.Â* Last week I got cream cheese,
> > nutrition bar, yogurt snack.Â* Saved another $5 because I spent $40..
> >
> > As long as they stick with once a week and no third part stuff, I'm ok
> > with it.
>
>
> How about when you discover they're distributing all their data about
> you and your preferences via Blockchain technology to make said data
> near impossible to erase, available to resources you do no real business
> with, and not centrally warehoused?

Really, I don't care who knows that I buy a container of prunes every week.

Cindy Hamilton