OT: neural networks and filePro

[GCC Consulting]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Bill Vermillion
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:51 PM
> To: filePro List
> Subject: Re: OT: neural networks and filePro
> 
> On Wed, Nov 17 12:45  Kenneth Brody said 'Who you talkin' to? 
> You talkin'
> to Kenneth Brody?  I didn't do nuttin'.  I said: 
> 
> > GCC Consulting wrote:
> > [... "smart" computers offering "suggestions" ...]
> > > Super markets and other brick & Mortar retailers are 
> doing this with 
> > > their affinity programs.
> > [...]
> > > Case 2: Foodtown Supermarket
> 
> > > Our vet suggested that we put our older cat on a carb diet.
> > > So we tried various infants pasta based foods. The cat eat these 
> > > foods for about a week. However, we kept getting offers 
> each time we 
> > > checked out for children's food. This happened for almost 
> a year and 
> > > 1/2. No matter what I did at the store level, I couldn't 
> stop these 
> > > 'suggestions" for children's food.
> >
> > [...]
> 
> > I tend to get the opposite at A&P and ShopRite. Whatever I 
> buy, I tend 
> > to get coupons based on what I'm buying at that time, but for the 
> > competitor's product. If I buy Gerber's baby food, I will 
> get a coupon 
> > for BeechNut. If I buy a box of Kellog's cereal, I'll get a 
> coupon for 
> > General Mills. And so on.
> 
> Do you mean at checkout time.  I see that locally too, so 
> when you buy product A from vendor H, you get a coupon 
> printed along with your receipt for product A from vendor M.
> 
> Since I never buy M I don't know if I bought product A from 
> them I would get a store generated coupon for vendor H.
> 
> I suspect it has to do with $$ changing hands as does shelf 
> placement and shelf space.
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Yes, at checkout time.  But these were for a type of product not a specific
product.  Always for some toddler product.  If it was for a specific brand, I
didn't notice as it annoyed me to have to wait for this to print out.  Foodtown
recently upgraded the printers to thermal printers which print faster and are
quiet.  Can you imagine the noise from 15 little dot matrix printer printing
register receipts and a second printer printing coupons and point score totals,
and special purchases available with your points.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting