-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 5:07 PM +1300 on 1/1/03, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> She didn't bat an eyelid, > nor was she concerned that he had the cards and I was buying the > books. Not My Problem. I'm sure many other people besides myself have had a cashier swipe her own card on behalf of a non-cardholding customer, "just to be nice". :-). More proof that the correlation is the thing, not the mystification of identity. However, I do wonder what deflation would do this stuff. I expect that cash discounts would become *real* popular in a deflationary environment, and, in the interest of economy in a time of tight money, no manager worth his job would pay to replace these mostly useless customer database systems, wonders of conjoined purchasing data or no. The best market information is, as usual, an efficiently discovered price... Cheers, RAH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPhJy1sPxH8jf3ohaEQKTAACeICxBnPID9gy/fLcMYmrBjLNwc30AnjcM xdKUxFD5QEsYCw9p/oWhN+Th =BBj1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
