Category Archives: Consumer Behavior

Customer Data Profile Appending – the genie is already out of the bottle

The Wall Street Journal wrote about it last Thursday January 30th in an article entitled ‘How a Family Tragedy Landed on a Retailer’s Mailing’ Forbes wrote about it the week prior –   ‘OfficeMax Blames Data Broker For ‘Daughter Killed in Car … Continue reading

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The last days of cash?

There has been much talk over the years about the irrelevancy of the U.S. penny. The report in 2012 from Bloomberg was that it actually costs 2 cents to make one penny.  With a nickel it’s just as bad – … Continue reading

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Will consumers accept retail credit card surcharges?

Last week I read an article in the December 19th issue of The New York Times describing how credit card companies like American Express, Master Card and Visa are considering altering policies that disallow retailers the ability to charge consumers … Continue reading

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