Customer Intimacy = Safety from Salmonella?

I’m not one, generally, to worry about consumer privacy with stores
and them tracking my purchases. I like that amazon.com keeps a
record of my purchases, as they can make recommendations for
related items and my shopping history is available to me online.
I’m not one to be freaked out about grocery store “discount cards”
tracking my purchases, but I do wish (in a way) that they’d just
offer lower prices without the cards (as Albertson’s is now
doing).

In an ideal state, stores would be trustworthy and only do good
things with this information — finding ways of better serving the
customer (instead of just selling the information for profit).

A good example — another store that tracks my purchases is Sam’s
Club. I recently received a letter from them that, once again,
pointed out that I had purchased food that had been recalled, this
time pistachios.

I got a full refund from Sam’s Club and, although I had heard about
the general salmonella concern about pistachios, I might not have
thought about what was already in my pantry.

Thanks, Sam’s Club for using my customer data in a proactive and
helpful way. Had I bought these at a regular grocery store, even
using my discount card, would they have contacted me? I’m guessing
not… what’s your experience with this?