Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Corned Beef Brisket (and a mild rant)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:41:44 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 31
Message-ID: <vr1t98$1rp2u$2@dont-email.me>
References: <vqvauq$3mvoq$1@dont-email.me>
 <MPG.423e1a876265c16f260@news.individual.net>
 <vr16r9$19ih0$1@dont-email.me> <vr189s$1alds$1@dont-email.me>
 <i4WAP.460431$SZca.398096@fx13.iad>
 <67d44a44$16$20$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
Reply-To: hamilton@invalid.com
Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:41:45 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="783d6e620f09d89da48dc90365d087af";
	logging-data="1959006"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19z+3KCQpY68oV0T067+vDkdl5THHkJoRw="
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:1qSrgNuCR0az/mA2KyoAgAtHFjk=
Bytes: 2267

On 2025-03-14, Mike Duffy <mxduffy@bell.net> wrote:
> On 2025-03-14, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> Sure they have data but if you have a card they
>> know your name, sex, age, address and they have
>> a long list of items that you regularly purchase.
>
> CC also has your smiling face on file for the photo-ID.
>
> They no longer just have a'greeter' look at the photo;
> you are obliged to scan the barcode on the card and a
> video display shows them the full hi-res scan. I guess
> looking at the thumbnail-sized B&W on the card itself
> and then looking at your face was taking too long,
> considering the age &c of the greeters.
>  
>> That gives their marketing department or agency all sorts 
>
> Yeah, well we all know how that will end. The first things
> you pass in Costco are usually 'home theatre' screens, so
> pretty soon we should see targeted ads for items recently
> purchased by people who just passed the ingress checkpoint.
>
> (Like Trump-sized diapers, Musk-sized penis extenders, &c.)

I've read one or two science fiction stories where ads follow
people all over town.  It bugs me that I can't remember what
they are.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton