vera195•3mo ago

I was at the pharmacy in Denver yesterday and the coupon printer knew my name before I even swiped my card.

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corap213mo ago

It's getting weird out there, like everything's just data points now lol.

jamesf293mo ago

Just saw an ad for a smart trash can that tracks what you throw away and gives diet tips. A trash can! That's where we're at now?

susansingh3mo ago

Remember those old loyalty cards at the grocery store? I found one in a drawer the other day, just a plain plastic card. Now my fridge sends a shopping list to my phone if I run out of milk. Feels like we went from earning points to being the point.

the_rowan1mo ago

That old card in the drawer really hit me. I found my mom's old Safeway card from the 90s the other day, and it was just a thin piece of plastic with a barcode. Now I get a notification from my fridge app telling me I'm low on eggs, and it thinks I should try some organic free-range option because it knows my "health profile." It's like we traded a simple punch card system for this invisible network that watches every single thing we do. And the worst part is, I don't even know who's using all that data or what they're doing with it. You're right, we went from collecting points to being the product they're selling.