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Old Jan 7, 2008 | 9:56 am
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Sears Places Spyware on Sears Rewards Customers' Computers

Here's a really good reason to stay away from Sears.

"Did Sears conclude that the only accurate way to see what consumers were truly doing online was to track customers who didn't know they were being tracked?

Did Sears decide to give its holiday shoppers the gift that keeps on taking, Spyware? It appears that Sears isn't disputing that it did distribute spyware, but merely that consumers knew that they were agreeing to spyware. (See related story about Sears shutting down another Sears E-Commerce that revealed consumer purchases. Another related story: analyzing a
the lawsuit filed against Sears for its latest data breach.)

The $53 billion retailer is learning that the online world—with its thousands of bloggers armed with screen captures—is fairly unforgiving when it comes to marketing excesses."

See full story at: http://storefrontbacktalk.com/story/010308sears
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