Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 10:50:20 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Liza Kessler <LKessler at lharris.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Big Brother in your grocery cart?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

I have three of the cards. None in my real name or connected to my real
address, etc. The discounts were temptingly substantial, but I loathe and
fear the whole profiling side of them. So I compromised. ;) But then, I'm
very much of a sale shopper. I'd say 70% of what I buy is the sale item
that looks most interesting in the category. (Plus milk, coffee, veggies.)

I'd say that the Safeway and Giant cards are getting a fairly accurate
profile of my food-buying habits -- they're the most convenient grocery
stores to my house. I don't go to CVS often enough for it to make that much
of a difference.

My friend Aleck enjoys building an odd profile, so the couple of times
we've gone to CVS together, he's insisted on them scanning his card when I
distinctively feminine products.

Liza

At 12:52 AM 8/1/02, you wrote:

>A website for those worried about shopper cards.
>
>http://www.nocards.org/