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Default advantage to giving your real address to the store card


"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> Ms P > wrote:
>
>> They sent me a dry cat food sample today. It's close to the same kind I
>> give her to keep the hairballs at bay.

>
> So how is the grocery store selling your address and buying habits
> to marketers an advantage?
>
> I'd bet it wasn't the grocery store that sent you that sample of cat
> food.
>
> (And how do you know it's close to the same stuff you currently buy
> - did you taste them?)
>
> -sw


The box said "a free gift from Dillon's" that's how I know it was from the
grocery store.

I know it's close to the same stuff I already buy because I read the label.

Ms P