The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip

The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you

By one expertâ€™s prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about specific products as they browse their local stores. The notion may be outlandish, but it reflects executivesâ€™ drive to understand shoppers in the aisles with the same obsessive detail that they track us online. In fact, a hidden surveillance revolution is already taking place inside brick-and-mortar stores, where Americans still do most of their buying. Drawing on his interviews with retail executives, analysis of trade publications, and experiences at insider industry meetings, advertising and digital studies expert Joseph Turow pulls back the curtain on these trends, showing how a new hyper-competitive generation of merchantsâ€”including Macyâ€™s, Target, and Walmartâ€”is already using data mining, in-store tracking, and predictive analytics to change the way we buy, undermine our privacy, and define our reputations.Â Eye-opening and timely, Turowâ€™s book is essential reading to understand the future of shopping.
Country USA
Manufacturer Yale University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-01-17
Format Kindle eBook

The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power