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The target one always seemed like bullshit to me. They don’t have any magic algorithms. There were likely some hard tells that she was pregnant. As in something
by jncfhnb 2y ago
The target one always seemed like bullshit to me. They don’t have any magic algorithms. There were likely some hard tells that she was pregnant. As in something like a doctor’s office told them.
- Aloisius 2y agoOr they just sent the same mailer to anyone with a female name popular in the last 40 years. After all, at any given time, like 11% of women are either pregnant, will soon become or have recently been pregnant.
- jncfhnb 2y agoAs someone who recently had a kid, I guarantee you’ll get flooded with very targeted baby stuff quickly. Not just fliers, but literal product samples. I assume insurance or something sells the data.
- etc-hosts 2y agoI worked in computer infra stuff at Target at the time. For one, they were incredibly paranoid about customer data privacy at the time, because of the famous incident of an unknown entity siphoning off data from some of their in store payment terminals for an unknown length of time. They instituted barriers and strict need to know basis access to everything touching customer history. The amount of internal systems and departments that would have had to cooperate in order to start trying to sell a customer pregnancy related products because another arm of the company detected an individual customer was pregnant just boggles my mind, it could not and would happen at Target.