I noticed the Publix savings emails know what I just purchased. Today's email had only 4 items & I had just bought them. Mandarin Oranges, Pork Tenderloin, Pork Boston Butt Roast & French Bread. I pay with my phone's Samsung Wallet app which only has a BOA card on the app. Has Publix captured the card number or something else on the Samsung phone. Publix has no card or other means of identifing me.

Card has your name. They have your email so you signed up… guessing they put two and two together?

Could be address validation, and correlated it to your email?

They watcha you house

Peek into you breakfast nook

They better keep their nose outta my nook.

Do you have your phone number on file with Publix, and if you give it to them each sale they keep track of your buying habits.

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Do you have your phone number on file with Publix

Yes, that was a requirement when I signed up for the emails. They must be reading my phone number when I place the phone near the card reader. I am not giving them my number at checkout.

Odd I use my ApplePay, just did at Publix twice, pharmacy and check out. No emails, texts, calls etc, now when the cashier asks for the phone number it gets tied together....

Are you paying with the Publix App, if so, then that's where it's getting the information.

You can contact them and ask...

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I got the Publix app so I can order sammiches ahead of time

Did you sign up anywhere? App or Publix savings club? Do you input your phone number when you check out?

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I pay with my phone's Samsung Wallet app which only has a BOA card on the app

I do not have the Publix app so they must be capturing the phone number somehow.

They in you nook right now

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Originally posted by Anush:

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Do you have your phone number on file with Publix

Yes, that was a requirement when I signed up for the emails. They must be reading my phone number when I place the phone near the card reader. I am not giving them my number at checkout.

I think it's a lot simpler than reading your phone number when you place your phone by the card reader.

They have your email and your phone number. Obviously, they also have your name, right?

You pay with your BOA card on your app. You could also have used your physical card when you pay for your purchase. Either way, your name is attached to your credit card. If you look at any of your receipts where you use your credit card, your name is on the receipt.

So they have the records of what was bought and paid with a credit card attached to your name. And their data base has a record of people's names with their email and phone number. It's as simple as that.

"They" even have your photo associated with your credit card and phone number, etc.

I recently mis-scanned an item at wallymart on the self-checkout lane. The screen in front of me immediately showed my picture, I assume so they'd be able to show it to police if malfeasance.

Fortunately, the clerk came over and straightened it out. I ran it across the scanner screen, the scan label was not flat, was wrinkled a bit, it did not scan properly, I didn't realize it and put in in the bag. My bad, I hate self checkout.

Asking the clerk about my pic on the screen, he said in addition to all the cameras inside and outside the building, they take your pic when you are scanning, and from that they correlate it to your credit/debit number, buying habits, etc. Clerk said the pic aids loss prevention in identification and prosecution.

Good grief I detest wallymart.
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One bright side is if a product is recalled, you’ll get contacted by the store.
Them knowing what you buy is not all clandestine spy shit, you *gave* them all the info they have.
(Unless they are indeed in your nook!)

Anytime they ask for your phone number, give them 867-5309.
Rod

Who are they selling the information to is the question that should come to mind. Trying to maintain a modicum of privacy in today’s world is like pissing in the wind.

If you use any form of modern technology, they know everything you do. If you don't use modern technology, but do something in the vicinity of modern technology, they know that too.

Knowing everything about everybody is a trillion dollar industry. Pretty much all modern technology logs and reports all kinds of usage information, and there's an incredible amount of computer processing power dedicated to crunching all that raw data and putting it together into individually identifiable profiles that can be sold for all kinds of purposes.

It’s called targeted marketing and the majority of retailers do It’s been around for years. They track your phone and purchases and offer discounts on items you purchase.

In a wa, it’s nice as you get the saving. In another way, it’s creepy as Big Brother knows too much about you.

There is a way around this.....

You are the product being bought and sold, though hopefully not in a "Soylent Green" way.

Our very non-anonymized shopping and travel habits have commercial value. I guess it's possible to minimize your footprint, but if you like modern convenience it's basically "baked in" by now.

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Originally posted by sig sailor:

Anytime they ask for your phone number

I tell them, "You don't need to call me. I'm standing right here."