How does a grocer I do NOT use code/phone at know what we buy?

[Anonymous]

We keep getting very specific coupons in the mail from said store full of obscure items we buy. Are they tracking my credit card (and ID when I buy alcohol)? I know credit card has my name, but how are they getting our address?

[Anonymous]

You’re saying you’re getting unique individual coupons in the mail, not part of a flyer, from a grocery store? I’ve never in my life gotten that.

[Anonymous]

They are buying your information and then matching your it to your credit card data most likely. I can’t remember the book, but I read a book once that described how many stores, including target do this.

[Anonymous]

Oy vey. I might switch our credit cards to just our last name. Maybe that will dissuade this sort of creepy tracking?

[Anonymous]

Which store?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oy vey. I might switch our credit cards to just our last name. Maybe that will dissuade this sort of creepy tracking?

How will that dissuade them? They just match the last name and address to the purchases and will just send coupons to you addressed to your last name.

[Anonymous]

The onyl way to "dissuade" this is to pay cash, but that obviously causes its own problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are buying your information and then matching your it to your credit card data most likely. I can’t remember the book, but I read a book once that described how many stores, including target do this.

I know Target has the rewards program scanner/phone number, similar to other stores ex Whole Foods with Amazon Prime. But this specific store I’ve never signed up for any program and never enter my phone number. But they’ve clearly got a cache of my grocery purchases going back months. Super creepy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oy vey. I might switch our credit cards to just our last name. Maybe that will dissuade this sort of creepy tracking?

How will that dissuade them? They just match the last name and address to the purchases and will just send coupons to you addressed to your last name.

If my new credit card and new numbers only have “Smith” on it, how would they get my address?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oy vey. I might switch our credit cards to just our last name. Maybe that will dissuade this sort of creepy tracking?

How will that dissuade them? They just match the last name and address to the purchases and will just send coupons to you addressed to your last name.

If my new credit card and new numbers only have “Smith” on it, how would they get my address?

I assume the current credit card having name middle initial and last name allowed them to buy the address from a database? Where as just a last name makes that impossible?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oy vey. I might switch our credit cards to just our last name. Maybe that will dissuade this sort of creepy tracking?

How will that dissuade them? They just match the last name and address to the purchases and will just send coupons to you addressed to your last name.

If my new credit card and new numbers only have “Smith” on it, how would they get my address?

I assume the current credit card having name middle initial and last name allowed them to buy the address from a database? Where as just a last name makes that impossible?

No, the address is attached to the CC Info. I have an extremely common name on my cards--think A Smith or M Johnson-- and live in a huge city and advertisers can find me because the address is attached to the card, not my name.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oy vey. I might switch our credit cards to just our last name. Maybe that will dissuade this sort of creepy tracking?

How will that dissuade them? They just match the last name and address to the purchases and will just send coupons to you addressed to your last name.

If my new credit card and new numbers only have “Smith” on it, how would they get my address?

I assume the current credit card having name middle initial and last name allowed them to buy the address from a database? Where as just a last name makes that impossible?

As someone with literally one of the top 3 names the year I was born an done of the top 3 last names in the USA living in a big city, I don''t think anything makes it impossible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oy vey. I might switch our credit cards to just our last name. Maybe that will dissuade this sort of creepy tracking?

How will that dissuade them? They just match the last name and address to the purchases and will just send coupons to you addressed to your last name.

If my new credit card and new numbers only have “Smith” on it, how would they get my address?

I assume the current credit card having name middle initial and last name allowed them to buy the address from a database? Where as just a last name makes that impossible?

No, the address is attached to the CC Info. I have an extremely common name on my cards--think A Smith or M Johnson-- and live in a huge city and advertisers can find me because the address is attached to the card, not my name.

Credit card companies give your address to retailers?

[Anonymous]

If you agree to let capital one suggest better deals on your purchases they can see everything you buy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are buying your information and then matching your it to your credit card data most likely. I can’t remember the book, but I read a book once that described how many stores, including target do this.

Creepy af