I get a piece of mail from my local Meijer (midwest grocery/department store, think Walmart) every week on Thursday, a couple days before my grocery run on Saturday.
It contains about a dozen coupons for the exact items I typically buy:
- Store-brand milk, 2%
- Honey bunches of oats with almonds cereal
- Bone-in chicken breasts, family pack
- Noosa strawberry-rhubarb yogurt
- Old spice aluminum-free deodorant, if it's been a few weeks since my last purchase
etc. etc. etc. It's not the generic "all Pepsi/Nestle products on sale" mailers. It's the exact stuff I've bought in the past. And yes, I admit I'm a creature of habit. There's little $4/hour coupon clipping or recipe selection required (I hate that), I can pretty much shop my normal list and then swipe the coupons across the scanner. And tell you what, if I skip a week at Meijer and go to Trader Joe's instead, there's likely a few more coupons for a little deeper discount the next week.
It's more than a little creepy. I have no idea how they got my home address, maybe scanned from my driver's license when I bought alcohol? And I don't use a store membership, they must be just tying my debit card number to my shopping habits.
If you use a credit card to pay and they datashare with another company where you used the same credit card to pay and the other company has your address, Meijer could have gotten it from them.
I have a walmart.com account - they add my in-store purchases to my Walmart.com history when I pay with a credit card I used at walmart.com.
It contains about a dozen coupons for the exact items I typically buy:
- Store-brand milk, 2%
- Honey bunches of oats with almonds cereal
- Bone-in chicken breasts, family pack
- Noosa strawberry-rhubarb yogurt
- Old spice aluminum-free deodorant, if it's been a few weeks since my last purchase
etc. etc. etc. It's not the generic "all Pepsi/Nestle products on sale" mailers. It's the exact stuff I've bought in the past. And yes, I admit I'm a creature of habit. There's little $4/hour coupon clipping or recipe selection required (I hate that), I can pretty much shop my normal list and then swipe the coupons across the scanner. And tell you what, if I skip a week at Meijer and go to Trader Joe's instead, there's likely a few more coupons for a little deeper discount the next week.
It's more than a little creepy. I have no idea how they got my home address, maybe scanned from my driver's license when I bought alcohol? And I don't use a store membership, they must be just tying my debit card number to my shopping habits.