I don’t mind except when it’s blantantly obvious. Like after Mr Obama was elected we had a rash of light skinned affluent black couples in ads. OK fine and such, but the areas where these ads are a full of single dark skinned black people who are one step up above the ghetto.
Talk about ill placement of the ads on the billboards and bus benches etc…
Advertisers are the spawn of Satan, and it should be legal to club them to death. Pizza Hut recently lost my business forever, because when I went to my local store, they insisted I provide a phone number prior to taking my order. Gal at the counter even turned the monitor so I could see she could not advance the screen without one. I had a gift card I wanted to burn, so I growled 555-1212 at her, and the transaction proceeded. I will not return to that chain, and so advised the manager in rather clear and unambiguous language.
I don’t care if advertising accidentally leaves me out, in fact, I’d welcome it.
It’s ever so mildly annoying when advertising assumes that I am included in the target group, when I’m not, but again, I don’t really see a problem here. Advertisers will do whatever hooks the most fish - and if this means profiling the crowd is necessary, then the advertisers that don’t do it automatically leave themselves at a disadvantage.
They must not have had much of your business before the incident.
We took phone numbers on orders and repeated the customers last order back to them when I worked at the Pizza Hut in 1989.
OK, busted. You’re right, I was never a big fan. Why the phone number thing? Doesn’t it piss off a lot of people?
In 1989, it was new and cool. I was there when they first introduced the system and it took some people by surprise, but I don’t know if anyone was pissed off.
You give your phone number, we read the address back. It eliminated a lot of mistakes for the drivers. Some people actually did order the same thing over and over so they liked having that in the system.
After 20 years, they are apparently still doing it, so I guess the fallout hasn’t been terribly immense.
Wait a minute…you’re talking about delivery. I have no problem with requiring a phone number for delivery. Used to be a driver myself, years ago, and I understand why that is needed.
My problem is with them demanding a phone number when I walk in to the restaurant to place a carry out order. I paid on the spot, and remained in the store while the order was prepared. There is no legitimate reason they need a phone number under those circumstances.
I really don’t see how this would be any worse than what Google’s doing. :rolleyes:
I think if you had made enough of a stink in my store, they would have tapped in the store phone number as a carryout. We always gave discounts to the local cops and would use the house number if they came in. But for a regular customer, we were discouraged. Everyone wants to be able to send coupons to their customers and that is how they get their data.
You would save a lot of money, and be freed from the advertising juggernaut slavering to part you from your well-earned cash?