[HN Gopher] Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before H...
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       Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
       (2012)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2024-02-09 18:09 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.forbes.com)
        
       | 8jef wrote:
       | Maybe not as old as _the Italian man who went to Malta_ video,
       | but close.
        
       | moioci wrote:
       | Story may be apocryphal:
       | 
       | https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/target-didnt-figure-out-a-t...
        
       | add-sub-mul-div wrote:
       | It's a quaint sort of headline. By now we take it for granted
       | that it must happen a hundred times a day. Someone shows up in
       | the Target data warehouse buying or browsing maternity items a
       | few weeks after having bought a pregnancy test. Before they've
       | told some of the people in their life about the pregnancy.
        
       | TheCleric wrote:
       | I'm not sure if this particular story is true, but the spirit of
       | it is.
       | 
       | At the time I was working for a marketing technology company who
       | helped provide some of the predictive tech for Target and MANY
       | other retailers (mostly grocery stores). I worked on the team
       | that developed the predictions for the retailers. They were quite
       | accurate because (in those naive and lax security days) the
       | retailers would send us every transaction including the CC number
       | used in the purchase. So the company could develop a pretty
       | robust profile of purchases for a customer across multiple
       | retailers. Fortunately all the company cared about at the time
       | was predictive coupon printing. If you ever got a separate coupon
       | printed with your receipt it was that company.
        
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