The aisles have eyes
by Joseph Turow · first published 2017
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"By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about specific products as they browse their local stores. The notion may be outlandish, but it reflects executives' drive to understand shoppers in the aisles with the same obsessive detail that they track us online. In fact, a hidden surveillance revolution is already taking place inside brick-and-mortar stores, where Americans still do most of their buying. Drawing on his interviews with retail executives, analysis of trade publications, and experiences at insider ind
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Not Google specific, but some good reading on this topic came out in January - The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power [0] [0] https://www.amazon.com/Aisles-Have-Eyes-Retailers-Shopping/d...
on “Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores” ↗Personalized pricing, with great details described how it works in retail in era of face recognition, mobiles, web tracking,loyalty cards, data mining etc.etc. Recommend the read to anyone The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy [0] https://www.amazon.com/Aisles-Have-Eyes-Retailers-Shopping/d...
on “Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: The Small-Town Gas Station Example” ↗This book https://www.amazon.com/Aisles-Have-Eyes-Retailers-Shopping/d... goes into quite a bit of detail about various techniques retailers use to track customers.
on “Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers” ↗Yesterday on NPR, longtime host Terry Gross did an interview of the author of a book called "Aisles Have Eyes". During this discussion, they addressed the topic of supermarkets developing apps. At the beginning of the discussion, Ms. Gross asked about location permission, specifically the iOS modal asking to…
on “Ask HN: Do users understand smartphone app permissions (specifically location)?” ↗