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Hey Dick's Sporting Goods

2021-01-22 04:00:06.742403+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Hey Dick's Sporting Goods: when you share my search information from your site, you're giving away marketing data that is letting competitors deluge me with ads to order that product online. Since you're not managing inventory well, I'm tempted.

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#Comment Re: Hey Dick's Sporting Goods made: 2021-01-22 13:25:14.634032+00 by: markd

Dick's is one of the few stores I've had to call from the inside to get any acknowledgement from staff.

#Comment Re: Hey Dick's Sporting Goods made: 2021-01-22 13:54:51.471702+00 by: TheSHAD0W

Dick's is probably making more money selling your data than from your shopping at their stores.

#Comment Re: Hey Dick's Sporting Goods made: 2021-01-22 20:09:12.774717+00 by: Dan Lyke

yeah, it's that someone made the business decision at some point that it was more valuable to sell other vendors the fact that I'm searching for something than to sell me that something.... Mind-blowing.

(The Dick's staff near us has been great, but we also generally go in when it's abandoned customer-wise.)

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