[quote]Examples include when people buy large amounts of scent-free soap, extra-big bags of cotton balls, hand sanitizers and washcloths.[/quote] Sanitation = Pregnancy?
Someday Target will derive the entire time evolution of the universe once they realize there is profit in it.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;34739331]Here's an idea for him, free of charge.
How about instead of blaming Target, you blame your shitty kid for not telling you?[/QUOTE]
[quote] After getting the details from his daughter, he told the manager he owed them an apology.[/quote]
He got mad because he thought they were trying to encourage her to get pregnant.
This is actually against the law in Canada.
I now have been presented an example in witch why it should be against the law everywhere.
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;34739948]Minors have no right to privacy. Why do people always ask this in these kind of threads?[/QUOTE]
Minors still have tons of rights. For example in my state you can have your parents arrested for trespassing if they enter your room without permission
[QUOTE=Zambies!;34739323]Oh Minneapolis :allears:[/QUOTE]
Oh what? I live 3 minutes away from there. A great city.
[QUOTE=-nesto-;34746032]Minors still have tons of rights. For example in my state you can have your parents arrested for trespassing if they enter your room without permission[/QUOTE]
I really need to check up minor rights in my state sometime
[QUOTE=Van-man;34739888]Why was he reading her mail then?[/QUOTE]
Because they're simply ads or regular catalogs. Normally it says "Jane doe or current resident"
[QUOTE=-nesto-;34746032]Minors still have tons of rights. For example in my state you can have your parents arrested for trespassing if they enter your room without permission[/QUOTE]
That is kinda stupid, i can't see that working. How it is trespassing if the parent owns the house and the plot that it is built on? The room is a part of the house therefor wouldn't it be the parents property.
Kids these days.
[QUOTE=-nesto-;34746032]Minors still have tons of rights. For example in my state you can have your parents arrested for trespassing if they enter your room without permission[/QUOTE]
Where are you and how hard is it to find a house there?
[QUOTE=MR-X;34746354]Because they're simply ads or regular catalogs. Normally it says "Jane doe or current resident"
That is kinda stupid, i can't see that working. How it is trespassing if the parent owns the house and the plot that it is built on? The room is a part of the house therefor wouldn't it be the parents property.
Kids these days.[/QUOTE]
It has to do with Established Residency laws(something along the lines if you've lived there for 30 days, get mail there, have property there then you are pretty much entitled to that space even if you dont pay shit for it). Also any property they buy and put in the room is your property. It's completely retarded but hilarious when you have it work in your favor.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;34746466]Where are you and how hard is it to find a house there?[/QUOTE]
Indiana and it doesn't have to be a home, it can be an apartment aswell.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;34745798]Sanitation = Pregnancy?[/QUOTE]
They clipped bad from the Forbes article, which was snarky about the original NYT article they were citing. It's a lot more complicated than that, the sanitation stuff is a flag in tandem with other things.
[QUOTE]Target has a baby-shower registry, and Pole started there, observing how shopping habits changed as a woman approached her due date, which women on the registry had willingly disclosed. He ran test after test, analyzing the data, and before long some useful patterns emerged. Lotions, for example. Lots of people buy lotion, but one of Pole’s colleagues noticed that women on the baby registry were buying larger quantities of unscented lotion around the beginning of their second trimester. Another analyst noted that sometime in the first 20 weeks, pregnant women loaded up on supplements like calcium, magnesium and zinc. Many shoppers purchase soap and cotton balls, but when someone suddenly starts buying lots of scent-free soap and extra-big bags of cotton balls, in addition to hand sanitizers and washcloths, it signals they could be getting close to their delivery date.
As Pole’s computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Target could send coupons timed to very specific stages of her pregnancy.
One Target employee I spoke to provided a hypothetical example. Take a fictional Target shopper named Jenny Ward, who is 23, lives in Atlanta and in March bought cocoa-butter lotion, a purse large enough to double as a diaper bag, zinc and magnesium supplements and a bright blue rug. There’s, say, an 87 percent chance that she’s pregnant and that her delivery date is sometime in late August.[/QUOTE]
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