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Submission + - Your In-Store Whole Foods Purchases Are Now Listed In Your Amazon Account

Submitted by FairAndUnbalanced on Monday January 06, 2025 @07:52PM

FairAndUnbalanced writes: In what could be an unwelcome surprise to those sharing their Amazon Prime cards with spouses or others, Amazon is now displaying your in-store Whole Foods purchases under the "Your Orders" section of the associated Amazon.com account. The thing is: you agreed to let them do that. Per your data sharing agreement with Whole Foods (that you probably don't remember agreeing to) :

"...if you self-identify as a Prime member at a Whole Foods Market store by scanning the designated QR code or providing the phone number associated with your Amazon account, or if you use a payment card that is saved in your Amazon wallet opens [sic] in a new tab at a Whole Foods Market store, then your Whole Foods Market transaction information will be associated with your Amazon account and that data may be used by both Whole Foods Market and Amazon."

Any in-store purchases that you made in Whole Foods stores using your Amazon Prime credit card, or by scanning the QR code from the Whole Foods app, show up, and all in-store purchases as far back as mid-2020 are displayed. There appears to be no press release or formal announcement about this change.

Comment Re:Cost-based shutdown (Score 1) 70

by JeffBarr on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @01:37PM (#64439336) Attached to: How an Empty S3 Bucket Can Make Your AWS Bill Explode

As I have shared in several other venues, we agree that customers should not have to pay for unauthorized requests that they did not initiate. We’ll have more to share on exactly how we’ll help prevent these charges shortly.

Comment Compression Makes a Big Difference (Score 1) 351

by JeffBarr on Thursday December 09, 2004 @10:22AM (#11041638) Attached to: Is RSS Doomed by Popularity?

I did some measurements across several hundred thousand of the most prominent RSS feeds, and I found that only a few actually return a compressed feed when so requested.

On average, compressed feeds are 30.42% of the size of the original, as you can see in graphical form here.

Better support for mod_gzip would certainly help to reduce the impact of RSS polling, but then again so would proper use of conditional get.

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