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BudNet Tracks Your Suds
An anonymous reader writes "CNN is carrying a story about Budweiser's national internal sales tracking network called BudNET. It allows Anheuser-Busch to instantly track sales across the country, and 'If Anheuser-Busch loses shelf space in a store in Clarksville, Tennessee, they know it right away.' It brings up some interesting privacy issues, because according to the article 'The last time you bought a six-pack of Bud Light at the Piggly Wiggly, Anheuser servers most likely recorded what you paid, when that beer was brewed, whether you purchased it warm or chilled, and whether you could have gotten a better deal down the street.' Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands."
...if you're drinking Budweiser, you've got bigger problems.
. . . about admitting you drink Bud.
People (men, in particular) will actually enter a store called Piggy-Wiggly when not accompanied by an infant?
Anheuser-Busch: the Wal-Mart of beer. They can't stand the competition either...
Anheuser-Busch is the shit.
Like the pigley wiggley will have a register that will even know that its ringing up bud...
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I didn't know about that, I'll have to try it sometime. All I knew about is their piss-colored-water stuff.
> Drink a good locally produced microbrew instead.
But shop at Amazon online.
...that I never, ever buy their beer. Bletch. It's darks and stouts for me, none of this "making love in a canoe" crap.
Urine tastes like American beer.
Does Piggly Wiggly have a kosher foods aisle?
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Dear Slashdot editor,
We at Budweiser would like to apologize for any anxiety you may have felt from the recent CNN article. As a token of our esteem, please accept the enclosed Budweiser hat.
Sincerely,
BudMan
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But drinking Bud always makes me that way.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
This Bud's for you, 372-81-4432. And you, 363-90-1125. And you, 352-10-8873...
Why the very thought of anyone drinking such a low class beverage has CAUSED MY MONOCLE TO POP RIGHT OUT! And really, who drinks beer in this day and age anyway? Everyone should drink only expensive wine and scotch.
Why just the other day my chauffer took a wrong turn off of the freeway and pulled me past this run down little liquor store where this shabby looking man (who by the way was driving a Pontiac! A PONTIAC!!!) who hadn't shaved for a couple of days was walking out with a bottle of Johnny Walker Red. RED LABEL?! I exclaimed, exhaling a puff of cigar smoke and tipping my top hat back in a bemused manner. WHO ARE THESE CRETINS? I practically had my driver phone the police right then and there.
Insert 'Free as in beer' VS 'Free as in Speech' joke here.
Eagles may fly, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
They have no way until the intelligent toilets come online.
In ancient Sumer. That's right - in IRAQ.
Obviously, Beer (which the membership of al Qaeda are commanded by God not to drink) is in league with al Qaeda, just like the former secularist government of Iraq (which the membership of al Qaeda was commanded by God to overthrow.) Whatever the article-author may think - it is clear that cool, refreshing beer, or even hobo urine like Budweiser, is more of a threat to our freedoms than the brave members of our law enforcement community.
Therefore, DARPA has asked Anheuser-Busch to help them keep track of the treasonous fluid. Don't get me started on those frenchies and their wine.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
"I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands."
Funny, I think I always choose to buy other brands. But that's just me. Having taste buds.
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I even have a certificate to prove that I'm a certified Beer Master. You wouldn't believe how much work goes into making such a thoroughly below average beer.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Know what, they track their inventory too!
ITS A FRIGGIN MY RIGHTS ONLINE THING!!!
Damn government people tracking inventory and sales!
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
They aren't tracking YOU, they are tracking the beer. Unless I'm missing something, they have no way of connecting any one person with any one beer.
... who knows?)
Ah, but just wait 'till they brew RFID tags directly into the beer! Then they'll not only connect you with the beer, but with every beer you've ever consumed! And they'll know about everything else you do, buy, consume, etc. because those RFID tags will bury their way into your stomach lining and scream "LOOK AT ME, I AM A NUMBER!" forevermore.
(It's funny. Laugh. Or be paranoid and don't
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Executive presidents from Anheuser-Busch, Miller Brewing Company, and Guiness had just finished a long meeting and decided to go down to the pub to relax.
The CEO of Anheuser-Busch sat down and said to the bartender "I'll have a tall King of Beers!" and the bartender poured him a Budweiser.
The CEO of Miller said "It's Miller time!" and the bartender handed him a frosty Miller High Life.
The CEO of Guiness sat down and said I'll take a water, please.
The other two looked at him quisically, and the CEO of Guiness responded to their looks: "If you boys ain't drinking, neither am I!"
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[01-03-04 09:44:31] Beer Location: On the delivery truck.
[01-03-04 10:26:54] Beer Location: On the store loading dock.
[01-03-04 11:54:12] Beer Location: In the store refrigerator case.
[01-03-04 19:22:57] Beer Location: In customer's hand.
[01-03-04 19:24:03] Beer Location: On the store checkout counter.
[01-03-04 19:31:44] Beer Location: Outside the store.
[01-03-04 19:32:10] Container Event: Can opened.
[01-03-04 19:32:12] Beer Location: Inside customers mouth.
[01-03-04 19:32:12] Beer Location: Outside customers mouth.
[01-03-04 19:32:13] Beer Location: On the ground.
[01-03-04 19:32:17] Beer Location: In the gutter.
[01-03-04 19:32:23] Container Event: Can dropped.
But to make the hat, I have to buy the cans! Classic chicken/egg problem. Arrgg!
Please help metamoderate.
Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands.
If you insist on being a covert budweiser drinker, i'd like to introduce the concept of "shoplifting". Walk around and get your ordinary stuff, and put the budweiser in your pocket. Then you pay for the non-budweiser stuff and just pretend you never took the thing. Simple! Just don't get caught or the men with the shiny badges will put you in a really small place with metal bars they call "Jail" or give you those notes that say you need to pay alot of money.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
This is only possible because you're a witless fucker whose entire conversational repertoire barely extends beyond endlessly discussing the relative merits of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and Babylon 5.
Why not nail some smoked bacon to your living room wall, it may provide another "funny conversation piece" for you to bludgeon your unwitting guests with when they come round to read your gas meter.
That was classic intercourse!
Nanotechnology! Each case of Budweiser has hundreds of little drones in them that move to the other beers in the fridge and monitor them, reporting back to the "mothercase".
In the future, once Coors and Michelobe and whoever have this technology, you'll see an endless nano-war in every cooler as the beers armies try to invade and repel each other.
Now I'm worried about my main pimp...don't tell me those bitches are carrying...
I hear each Bud is laced with an individual chemical compound not unlike a DNA for beer (or serial number). So they already know where you buy and once you piss the bastard out they have engineers down all sewer systems with receptors matching your DNA with the beers.. and bing bango NO PRIVACY FOR YOU!
serenity now!
If you do something worth noticing, you *will* get noticed.
The ridiculous thing is that slashdotters seem to think that their grocery purchases are worth noticing. Massive government databases on what beer you drink? Give me a break.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
If you have a garden, you can use it for slug bait.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Last Saturday, I purchased a 6-pack of Guinness (in bottles) from the Kroger in Clarkston, GA. No, I do not live near there.
I paid approximatly $7.50.
My intent in purchasing the beer was, in addition to enjoying its smooth robust flavor, performing a demonstration to amazed friends on how to remove the magic "rocket widget" from an empty Guinness bottle (without breaking the bottle of course).
There, I said it. Now the entire world knows what beer I purchased, when, where, and why.
What is the WORST thing that can possibly happen to me by making this public?
-CausticPuppy "Of all the people I know, you're certainly one of them." -Somebody I don't know
but don't have too much problem when the local store thinks it's my girlfriend who's loading up on beer. I'd be a little concerned about other men hitting on your girlfriend when they see her going through the checkout line with 10 cases of beer. "Hey there sweetheart, let me help you with that!" If she's also buying a pizza, that's some guys' picture of "the perfect woman"!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
tell people you bought a six pack of Guinness so they shouldn't be paranoid..
BRILLIANT!
Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands."
....... Hello?
The guys at the airport sticking their fingers up everyones asses pales in comparison to this outright violation of my civil liberties!! I think it's time for a revolution! Who's with me?
Hello?
Ceo's of Miller, Budweiser and Guiness are dining at a fine restaurant. It's time to order some beer. Miller guy orders Miller, Budweiser guy orders Budweiser and Guiness guy orders Coke. "WTF?", asks the waiter. "Look, I'm just being polite here. If the other two fellas don't want to drink beer, I'm not drinking it either", Guinness guy answers.
You think that's bad? The bartender in our local pub keeps track of what everyone has ordered, how much they paid, and even at which table they're sitting at. There's no privacy any more.
"There, now there's a little bit more useless knowledge that probably squeezed some useful information out of your memory in order to make room!" Didn't work - my head is already filled with useless knowledge and yours went straight to the bit bucket. I've already forgotten your post and am know wondering why I'm posting.
Amen. But try telling that to the people who get pissed off when I wear my "NASCAR is stupid" T-shirt. After a couple of minutes of staring at it they figure out what it says, spit tobaccey on me, and tell their sister/wife to go git their shotgun out of the camper. Then they say "You think yur bettern me, just cause you have a shirt on." I try to explain that I just don't like NASCAR (when they tilt their head like a dog, I rephrase it as NAASCOR and it registers) and it doesn't reflect in any way on how I feel about him personally. Then they think I am some kind of faggot for having personal feelings towards him, and I have to quickly leave in my "furrin" car before the little lady gets back with the shotgun.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
The good thing about beer (assuming one considers bud being a beer), is that if you drink enough of it, all those concerns about privacy will just go away... So keep drinking and you will eventually see that you really didn't have to worry about anything.