How would you like someone watching your every move as you shop around the mall? Tracking customers is becoming more and more popular for stores in the United States. Currently, retailers are using cameras and smartphones to learn about their customers’ shopping experience and tendencies. Critics would say spying on customers is cheaper for shoppers since they get discounts, but stores should not spy on their customers. The customers have no privacy and it is unsafe. First and foremost, spying on customers makes them have no privacy. In paragraph four of How and Why Retail Stores are Spying on You, Shop mart says, “Some stores now have cameras in their dressing rooms so you can more easily check the fit of your jeans from the rear, but they also collect details about you and your shopping habits.” Stores are watching people try on clothes, and have cameras in the dressing rooms. The cameras can see people with and without clothes on, and can make people feel uncomfortable and scared to try on items. Also, in paragraph seven of How and Why, shop mart states, “Gaze trackers are hidden in tiny holes in the shelving and detect which brands you’re looking at and how long for each. There are even mannequins whose eyes are cameras that detect the age, sex,…show more content… However, shoppers can get coupons in other ways. For example memberships. For many stores they have a card or membership customers can sign up for when they purchase an item. When shoppers sign up for the membership or rewards cards they get discounts for that store. Maybe fifty percent of, or buy one get one free, and many more different discounts. Especially clearance sections and holiday sales are the perfect times and places to shop, without giving out personal information. The customers are not benefitting from giving away their information for these rewards when there is an easier way to get
