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[–] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At least they're telling you. There's also a lot of hidden surveillance in stores - they've done it with Bluetooth and cameras for some time. Things like monitoring how long you look at products and evaluating your reactions to displays.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That's why I always introduce a good bit of entropy to my shopping patterns:

    -Enter and go straight to produce
    -Spend 20 minutes examining eggplants
    -Walk up and down 5 aisles pausing exactly the square of the aisle number in seconds.
    -Grab a box of tampons
    -Grab what I need as quickly as possible
    -Return tampons
    -Checkout and leave

    Somewhere a marketing team is spending hours trying to figure out how to improve the conversion rates for tampons and eggplants for customers in my demo.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't forget to flick and knock on various fruits and vegetables. Randomize how many flicks/knocks per item, and throw in a few on produce items that normally don't get that kind of test e.g. grapes or potatoes.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait, there are fruits/veggies that get this kind of treatment by typical customers? Please list a few.

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