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Re: MY "Dear Kroger" Letter

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From: DGray
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 00:00
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"Sojourner" <notime4@summer.spam> wrote in message
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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.
>

Wrong answer!

> > 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.
>

Sure they do at some point they would like to say hello Mr X. we have your
groceries ready for you. Thank for shopping at a better store because you
weren't so anal about yourself. Go live in the woods without communication
if you don't like what is coming!


> > 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).

Don't bitch about surveys, just decline the survey and decline the
discounts. The original post about the fact that someone was bitching about
why they had to fill out a survey to get the discounts. STOP BITCHING!
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From: "DGray" <noguessingallowed@predictions.com>
Subject: Re: MY "Dear Kroger" Letter
Date: 2000/08/13
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