I would expect better writing from the LA Times than this yellow journalism filled with clickbait... There is a kernel of a news story here, but blaming it on

I would expect better writing from the LA Times than this yellow journalism filled with clickbait... There is a kernel of a news story here, but blaming it on Trader Joe's in the headline, only to retract it half-way through the story? The section with big scary words about how terrible it is to log an IP address?