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> an eternal database of everything you buy owned by a third party. Lots of people pay by credit card, or use store cards to get discounts. I wonder if it migh
by repsilat 8y ago
> an eternal database of everything you buy owned by a third party.
Lots of people pay by credit card, or use store cards to get discounts. I wonder if it might be worth volunteering that information without any convenience/price reward if it means the shop might somehow act to serve me better as a customer.
I also think self-checkouts are net less degrading than human checkouts. Bag your own groceries. Be trusted enough to say whether those were organic tomatoes and pay the extra few cents. Lower prices and shorter lines are great too.
- askmike 8y ago> I wonder if it might be worth volunteering that information without any convenience/price reward if it means the shop might somehow act to serve me better as a customer. If they'd serve you better that automatically means they'd serve everyone else worse who didn't want to give up that information. You'll love the Social Credit System in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System This is not a world I want to live in.
- repsilat 8y ago> they'd serve everyone else worse That doesn't follow. It could be positive-sum. Just from the checkout (without customer identifiers) they can find correlations. "People who buy salsa tend to buy corn chips. Let's put them near each other in the store." With identifiers they might be able to do more things of that sort. "A few customers shop in two different locations -- over here for fresh produce, but over there for baked goods. Wonder why?" > You'll love the Social Credit System in China Be civil.
- Scoundreller 8y agoI want to know what the bibles get stocked next to...
- nivertech 8y agonext to guns, ammo, gas masks, canned food, toilet paper ...