All right, I know of no other way to find out what the link might be between use of a product coupon and a subsequent appearance of an ad for that product on my facebook page the same day than to ask you brilliant kossacks. If you care to jump into this particular pool of triviality, follow me and leap over the twisty orange life preserver.
Most (all?) of us have seen ads pop up on Facebook or other sites we visit that seem oddly coincidental. Maybe we had been thinking about buying some detergent -- then we open up Facebook to see what people have been up to and there it is: a shiny ad in the right-hand margin of the page for detergent. Your brand. What a coincidence, you think. And yes, no doubt it is.
But what happened this morning seems different. I used a CVS coupon to purchase a new (to me) brand of eye drops. I hadn't searched for them online, had never even heard the name before -- but when I opened my Facebook page a little while ago, there in the right-hand margin was an ad for this brand of eye drops. That felt a bit ... creepy.
Is there a way that coupons can be coded so that a store where you have a "loyalty" card can somehow track you on your social media sites when the coupon is scanned?
(Stop laughing! This might be serious. Or not.)
I'm not usually a CT-minded person - I just wonder whether the technology can do that.