Week of February 20, 2023
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Some readers have suggested that the dispensing holes in some products have gotten bigger, making it too easy to use more and thus you have to buy the product more frequently. We compare some new holes to old ones to see if hole size inflation is really happening.
That is our Mouse Print* story this week.
When you use your loyalty card at your supermarket, or even just walk into a store with your smartphone and the store's app, a lot of data is being collected about you. Some of it includes assumptions made about you based on your purchases. Kroger, which runs supermarkets under about a dozen different names, says it collects over 2,000 variables on its customers. And with the planned takeover by Kroger of Albertsons, they'll be able to add millions more shoppers to their database.
USA Today had a panel of viewers rate all the mostly lackluster Super Bowl commercials last week. Here they are again, ranked from best to worst, for your viewing pleasure.
[Ignore CBC commercials at start.] A Marketplace investigation of mall diamond dealers reveals that the grade of diamonds they sell may not match the actual quality. In two-out-of-three cases, diamonds were worth close to $1,000 less.
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