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Re: MY "Dear Kroger" Letter

#1979
From: Sojourner
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 00:00
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DGray wrote:
> 
> It sounds like you have no friends in the acedemic field and you have never
> had a conversation with a researcher. This is sad because you have a narrow
> minded paranoid view.

Let me guess - you work for poll-takers.

> Accurate data including demographic and geographic information is need for
> research to better know the customers.

Bullshit.  They do not need to know anything about INDIVIDUALS in order
to be able to tell what to stock on their shelves.  If it sells, you get
in more.  If it doesn't, you don't.  GROUP statistics do not require the
taking of individual data.

> In the end if you don't want the discounts then don't fill it out but for
> don't bitch about things that you don't understand. Also remember NOTHING IS
> FREE IN LIFE, you don't deserve cheap prices unless you help the company
> save money, DUH!!!

The company doesn't deserve my money unless they help ME to best utilize
MY funds.  DUH!  Nothing in life is free, that's right - and they don't
get my personal data when I get nothing in return (and not even if they
offered me wads of cash).

http://www.egroups.com/group/HomesteadGals
http://www.egroups.com/group/JustDucky

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