Retailers Deploy Databases Against Customers

A couple of people submitted this piece about retailers using databases to crack down on sub-optimal customers, such as those who return too many purchases to the store. Also has a few tidbits about other database blacklists that are available to companies. Customers avoid intrusive practices; although this story was written by the Washington Post and I have the URL to the original story available, I declined to link to washingtonpost.com because of their intrusive registration.

Comments

Re:Oh boy...

[lidocaineus]

Alright, here goes my karma...

Anytime an idiot prefaces their post with that, they really are saying, "This goes against what the typical slashdot reaction is, so watch me karma whore the sympathy mod!"

It's Republicans

[tin foil hat dude]

The problem is really not bad customers, it's republicans.

These are the people that barge to the head of the line like they are better than others.

These are the people returning things that they damaged and lying about it

These are the people that when exit polled were nasty and told the person polling that "they didn't have to talk to them"

Republicans are in the end just NASTY people, and it's Europeans that cannot fathom the nasty, rude behavior of republicans. They have never seen the depths of lying and crookedness that republicans will seep to in an attempt to cheat the system or someone.

Good luck. it's all just going to get worse before it gets better.