Somebody said,
Frankly, if using my card saves me $10 on a roast,
it's hard for me not to think it's a good exchange..
Hogwash. It's not saving customers anything at all.
Same gimmick as credit cards. Take away a percentage
from noncard-holders and give it to the cardholders.
What economic
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 07:44 AM, Trei, Peter wrote:
Actually, many stores go to a lot of trouble to find a pessimal
arrangement of items - the more shelves a customer walks
past, the more impulse buys he/she is likely to make. There's
a reason the dairy section is usually the furthest
Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Todd Boyle wrote:
Its not enough to put the chips next to the beer. They want
to examining the layout of all their shelf space.
The cash register data alone, is enough to do this, but
it doesn't work very well for
If I remember correctly, right after the WTC attack one of the grocery chains, I think
it
was Safeway, immediately offered it's customer lists to the FBI. What were they going
to do profile people who bought excessive amounts of chick peas, garlic and lemons?
Albertson's has recently returned
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, John Kelsey wrote:
It's worth pointing out that if you can afford to do the computerized
part of this search for your top 16 suspects today, you'll be able to
do it for your top thousand suspects in less than ten years, just
assuming processing and storage gets cheaper at
Not in any 1U system that I know of unless you mean multiple racks.
The biggest ATA drives I see on the market today are 200GB. Most 1U
systems won't hold more than two of these. That's nowhere near 1TB!
Also you're forgetting about doing backups; and I don't know about you,
but I get a
On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 07:34 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Its very common, if the person in front of you hasn't a card, to loan
your
card (to a total stranger! gasp!) when you them without. I've also
noticed that the checkers now
keep a working card to use in these situations.
At 01:46 PM 12/31/02 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
...
The scalability of the problem is much different depending on your goals.
If you want to sort through the transcriptions of people who
bought drugs and knives and airline tickets but no luggage
in an effort to find potential terrorists, that's
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote:
* I expect most uses of customer courtesy cards are to try to get
some kind of brand loyalty going. People thinking Well, I have a card
at Albertson's, but not at Safeway, so I'll go to Albertson's.
They'd love that, but know better.
* Dossier-compiling
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Todd Boyle wrote:
Its not enough to put the chips next to the beer. They want
to examining the layout of all their shelf space.
The cash register data alone, is enough to do this, but
it doesn't work very well for shoppers who come and
buy chips on tuesday and beer on
At 07:12 PM 1/1/2003, Mike Rosing wrote:
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote:
* I expect most uses of customer courtesy cards are to try to get
some kind of brand loyalty going. People thinking Well, I have a card
at Albertson's, but not at Safeway, so I'll go to Albertson's.
They'd love
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Collecting valid name information costs a vendor money (both in labor,
computerization/records, and in driving some customers elsewhere). It also
deters some people from completing transactions.
To see an example of data collection done on a grand scale, have a
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a
credit card with the name Shostack, and an expired membership card in
the
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a
credit card with the name Shostack, and an expired membership card in
the name Doe.
Interesting point on
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:02:48AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
| On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
|
| At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
| Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a
| credit card with the name Shostack, and an
At 12:03 -0800 on 12/31/02, Tim May wrote:
Yes. So?
Notice that exactly the same type of coupon is printed out with a
cash or non courtesy card purchase. It's a purely local
calculation. In programming terms, a purely local variable
situation.
No. Obviously the coupon was closely linked
At 11:02 -0800 on 12/31/02, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a
credit card with the name Shostack, and an expired
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote:
But what if this data is used as part of a larger picture, such as in
TIA. It definitely can be used, along with gas purchases, to track
where a suspect, aka a citizen, is living. Also, many possible
weapons such as
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:02:48AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a
credit card with the name Shostack, and an
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:41 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 11:02 -0800 on 12/31/02, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:12:02PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote:
But what if this data is used as part of a larger picture, such as in
TIA. It definitely can be used, along with gas purchases, to track
where a suspect, aka a citizen,
At 12:27 PM 12/31/2002 -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote:
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:12:02PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote:
As for your point about prescription drugs, box cutters, kitchen knives
being trackable, I assume this is a troll
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