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Archive for November, 2004

Wal-Mart and Data Mining

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

The New York Times is reporting on Wal-Mart’s massive collection of customer data. Sounds like they collect a hell of a lot of data.

Partial returns policy?

Monday, November 8th, 2004

An interesting article reports that some retailers are using technology to refuse store returns to dodgy customers. Probably no data mining involved but interesting none the less. I can imagine if this happened in Australia it would probably end up on A Current Affair with Mike Munro!