Today I was in a sportswear shop in Denmark, where all items had two prices:
— A normal price which came with the requirement that you registered with them, so they can data mine your purchases.
— An almost 100 percent higher price which was offered to anyone who did not want to have their data mined.
I truly loathe this, but it is becoming more and more common in large retail chains in my country. Are you seeing this in your country as well?
In the USA, I give the phone number of (local area code) 867-5309, for Jenny Two-Tone.
That works almost everywhere.
@randahl So what brought you to Sport24 my good friend?
I once needed a gym bag. Went to Sport24, and there was a nice bag for 400kr. On the inside, there was an old tag from a previous sale/discount at 180kr.
I didn’t remove anything. I just made the old tag more visible/prominent and the new/more expensive one more inside the bag.
Still not a member.
The supermarket chain by me does that for the sale prices. You have to have the chain's loyalty card in order to get sometimes a 60-70% discount, or a by 3 get one free. It's been that way for at least a decade.
Sure there's data mining, but if they really wanted to silence this voter through such mining, they'll keep giving me four 12-packs of soda for $16 US and then wait twenty years for the sugar to knock me off.
@randahl
Yeah, I know those customer card/app offers.
It was not that recognisable i. germany, but here in Ireland it has sometimes a huge impact on products in regular groceries. One has to be always careful by reduced prices, because most of them are connected to the customer card/app.
We never took part in this schemes and will never do so.
@randahl I made a complaint a couple of years ago.
"the view of the DPC is that not being forced to part with personal data in order to avail of XXX products or services nor is the XXX card a barrier to avail of products.
"The Handbook on European Data Protection Law" (page 145) touches on the scenario that you have raised as below:
are not serious enough to prevent the data subject’s free choice (provided price reduction small enough not to affect free choice).
https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/handbook-european-data-protection-law-2018-edition
@randahl One would think that's massively illegal in any reasonable country. Or one can at least hope they can get reported to some kind of ombudsman or ministry or whatever.
And of course then I remember you guys have a Peter Hummelgaard. Chances are he gets wet from the very thought of companies farming people's data like that.
@randahl Do you have any articles (Danish is fine) about this?
Would love to reference when sending a letter to MP in Canada regarding the idea of regulation around dynamic pricing (which is currently being discussed).
Buying bread, should not require knowing who I am
@randahl I would have left my entire purchase right there at the till and walked out.
@randahl It's the "Consent or pay" model of privacy/informed consent and it is truly terrible.
Yes, at a smaller markup. It's called a loyalty card or Co-op membership. And then there are online retailers, who do not offer the more expensive option at all.
@randahl Every time you accept a loyalty card you get lower prices and other "ad vantages", in other words you're data mined to the bones...
@randahl Did I mention that I’m going to see Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters tonight?
@randahl no. Haven't seen this in Germany, yet. And I would definitely not buy anything there.
@randahl Register with made up details. Pay with cash.
@randahl
Nope, nothing like that in Germany, as far as I can tell
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