[geeks] Secret codes, was US Post Office Website broken again

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:35 , Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

> Dan Sikorski writes ...
>
>> I was in radio shack a few weeks ago and was surprised when
>> they asked
>> for a phone number.  I had thought they ended that, but apparently at
>> least that store still did.
>
> Trader Joe's (a largely west-coast grocery chain) used to ask for  
> zip codes;
> they used that to figure out where to build new stores.

You have to be careful here though.

A lot of stores use partial information to gradually build full  
information profiles, sometimes even illegally.

Again, Service Merchandise did this, and Circuit City did it for years  
as well.

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