How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did - Yahoo! Shopping
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[Pole] ran test after test, analyzing the data, and before long some useful patterns emerged. Lotions, for example. Lots of people buy lotion, but one of Pole’s colleagues noticed that women on the baby registry were buying larger quantities of unscented lotion around the beginning of their second trimester. Another analyst noted that sometime in the first 20 weeks, pregnant women loaded up on supplements like calcium, magnesium and zinc. Many shoppers purchase soap and cotton balls, but when someone suddenly starts buying lots of scent-free soap and extra-big bags of cotton balls, in addition to hand sanitizers and washcloths, it signals they could be getting close to their delivery date.
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On one hand, I'm not paranoid enough to care. On the other, I hate when they assume the wrong thing about me. I get so much junk mail in Spanish and Portuguese. I don't speak either language. If Target'ing really works, my grocer will send me Lipitor coupons
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