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Saturday, June 8, 2013

How supermarkets get your data – and what they do with it


We all know the scope of the information to the players to make use of the shopping vouchers to our customs, we also, when any one offers to - but how would you feel and he sat down to watch the movie from the array the adverts based on what was in your trolley of shopping, a few hours before?
Or what do you think about using its Tesco Clubcard database to check what you are eating, and perhaps if you offer vouchers for salad and a fruit basket with items generally unhealthy sigh?
These are the two modes of the giants, there was given to us to make use of the forum they gather together to policy.
For every one point of a person's faith or coupon Sainsbury's, Tesco, and the like dish out a huge amount of information he may devour our shopping habits. We have all the well-known experimental results with darts and is joined to it by faith, but do not be surprised the amount of information on all the big retailers to collect their shoppers - even to the power he wants - and what they do it.
Opted for taking out the credit card if you do not want "Big Brother in your shopping basket", and then also the bad, because even the players and pay the credit card information and receipts to track the debt - so someone somewhere, knows that the bottle of wine you bought at 12.28pm on Tuesday, and recently switched to your brand of athlete's foot cream.

How players use this information?
If you have a loyalty card to shop online, or, from the demographic profile, such a shame I will build thee, and to collect the data, how faithful you are, no matter how much you spend and what you buy, says Guy Montague-Jones, Grocer.
When ye therefore shall see, they can easily their works they do to change the environment of pollutants may be open to you, suggests that, in the courts of justice, which was given the store they sell their own make use of.
For example, the Sainsbury's discovered that the sacrifice was worth stocking brand called grape nuts - although weakened sales - shoppers who bought it for a very loyal Sainsbury's often the big spenders.A Tesco Clubcard Tesco clubcard vouchers and plans to use the information to target specific foods at the airport. Photograph: Joe Fox / Alamy


Supermarket giant Sainsbury bank last month announced it would redeem the full power of the 50% it did not already own - and because his data shows that the product was taken from the bank, Sainsbury's shoppers spent more loyal and more in-store.
Tesco, meanwhile, is using his knowledge of his stores to serve 16 million Clubcard holders buy online users targeted ads to their new movie free service, Clubcard TV. In the health care the way to go, but to be clear the wave and he does it and he that hath pm There is a lot of competition and a connection manager.
But you have to tune in to register your Clubcard number and postcode. Clubcard TV director Scott Deutrom boasted a blog that "we can not target adverts based on what customers bought yesterday" (from Tesco spokesperson claimed this was just after the "vision" in a moment).
A few days ago it emerged Tesco Clubcard also plans to use the data to tackle obesity, and "to see the real competition would welcome suggestions tailored for the shop more than they could profitably" - which could mean a healthier vouchers for products or recipes suggested (would choose to work, so he says).

But if you have not given each of the players in your personal?
Even if I did not give up and through the preferences of your Product Details The credit system, it's like you have to pay for the use of your credit card debt, or in some point of the shopping, - and this is another way that we can see what to buy on the phone to track down.
"We know that the anonymised unique card number for the same basket of groceries one week and how much was spent with the card number of the following week," said Morrison spokesperson. "Now that we know that, when He did not see that here the confession of seven. Efficacy rates we use, and the measure of things."
 

A card to be delivered to the shop assistant RBS Visa debt management can use your card details to learn more about you. Photograph: David Leven for the Warden
When asked, whether the number of employees to the card and to give his life for the liberty to tracked in this way, the supermarket industry, saying, "only need to opt for it in the" If Morrison would send them some kind of communication.
"All the great cost Grocer track cards in this way," said Matthew Harrop data analysis to farm emnos. "All things have been given to your note or connected Customer Identifier - anonymously or in the absence of credit card - to analyze what you're buying and how loyal you are."
Waitrose and Asda analyzing data aggregated to admit card to monitor prices "lake regional policies" (for example, items purchased) time. And is this a power usage in the retail industry and the number of cards that they are not connected to the individual or the address. Sainsbury's and Tesco say not track or monitor their customers' payment cards.
And the players as you are willing to search diligently into the stores to do without. Waitrose, for example, independent data analytics firm Beyond Analysis use "anonymised and aggregated data" about shoppers' attention to the new Visa card plenty of places are going to decide.
She was seen above the integrated analysis of the Waitrose business with the proper information on the data to figure out what players as only potentially of groceries they bought from the others, and the general locations of these competitors.
A spokesperson says the Waitrose supermarket, never see the details of the individual customer's costs - would only data show broad trends. When I saw that the work fully complied with the Data Protection Act expresses the market. He would not comment on the above analysis and Waitrose says it no longer works with the firm.
Nevertheless, both MasterCard and offer more services to data analysis 1 UK retailers - which means anonymised, which aggregates the data we are spending on our credit card debt and you live up to the high bidder is the power grabs.
How timely is your first post of the other?
Visa says it requires to seek your agreement with the bank issuing the card to apply. MasterCard states of the global Privacy Policy, which "perform data analyzes" provides the opportunity to opt out of it on the website. Otherwise, you automatically opted in.
And that will not be said to be very good as it was seen and MasterCard thy very name, like unto Thine.

Present the what if?
Sainsbury's and Morrison monitor, you can still identify their products and what to buy things when they scanned at until they do, "at least" for cashiers to deliver the kinds of incentives.Great Britain Pound Bank Notes disgrace but worships used to target cash-paying customers
Either use "coupon-at-while" Catalina said the system, which proclaims their website that "consumers may find its redemption preferences match" special education. But Sainsbury's, also makes use of the Catalina wider Nectar card database.The database that contains data Nectar cardholders buy every retailer in the system - not only to Sainsbury's - which is especially adept at identifying and targeting customers, according to the demographic profile. Sainsbury's data using its online offer discounts to shoppers in-store in large families with kids, as give them an incentive to shop online.Its rival Morrison does not have to rely on the credit card database. admit into it but I will buy "sliced ​​very detailed demographic data and use it to your shopping analyze extrapolate trends from the basket and what you buy, so that you can make up to target offers. Morrison claims all its competitors to do the same.What with all the different players to collect the data?
"Brand, they say, will approach coffee Sainsbury's, Tesco Morrison, buying and selling rival brands to seek access to it, that no one can offer to this," said Charles D'Oyly, 1500 of Valassis, which handles international sales platforms for redemption. Torches, people are willing to pay "a lot of money" for a significant role of this ministry, he says, making the most of these things, that the amount of a great "grab the high" jumps from high school as little as 1% as "over 50%".
Tesco and Morrison Sainsbury'ssay faith alone would allow the brand to target one particular rival China. Sainsbury's and Tesco also stressed that they shall not sell the data to third party but it is not by faith, but she must give Details of how they work to provide professionals with torches "belongs" to offer and promotions.More laughter
How it works for you - 

You can use your knowledge to the market, these plans Syracuse vouchers, and much more?
One way, says Charles D'Oyly leading coupon and voucher services provider Valassis, if open two extra credit cards, alternating between - is the opportunity to confuse you into thinking crunchers shop elsewhere many times. "If you spend more money on the keyboard can see, but this was no food with wine, guess I'll push you selling other things around the world and provides the direction of the wine in your own," he said. "This is if you buy say, but a dog does not care about the dog food".
Taken a look at the market's perspective. "Students should be no true friend and coupon discount, because the market has already fallen thinks the whole grocery spend," said Matthew Harrop, director of the retail consultancy emnos data analytics. "But he who believes in CUSTOMER in another place, retailer of groceries to buy, or not of online shopping with the store, you may be able to offer the rich man spend over £ 50 £ 10 to keep out of."
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