Technology And Consumer Privacy

Technology is always growing and changing. We can now do things we never thought possible. Each day the world creates something new to offer. It’s no question that technology affects our society in many different ways it provides many negative tools that many places use for grocery shopping from evading consumer privacy, quick and easy access to information, taking away consumer options, and even taking out competitor companies. Technology is sometime negative in our society. It takes away from consumers, spy’s on the consumer, and can even change what consumers may want.

To begin, this technology can be used as a negative tool by evading customer privacy. For example, many average grocery store shoppers, may go into a Target and not know …show more content…
For example, if a customer is looking for something cheap, affordable, and good. They then let me go to the store see my options. However, with this technology used by not only Paco Undersell many believe its a little invasive. “I think it’s ridiculous how we’re just being pegged all the time from every angle,” said grocery store customer, Karen Pryor. There are cameras on us, there are people just invading our privacy.” Nowadays one may not even find the cheap affordable item they are seeking. If the stores take out all products except the popular ones, the ones that are most bought. As, a result all the other companies go away, they disappear, and what if the only companies left are the expensive popular brands? Not everyone has that kind of money. Also, this technology has a negative impact through taking away from competitors. If the store decides to only carry the popular items, then again, someone suffers, now the competing brands don 't survive because their product is no longer being held within the stores. If they aren 't in as many stores what if that takes out the business, now people are out of a job, and money is …show more content…
Technology is sometime negative in our society, it takes away from consumers, spy’s on the consumer, and can even change what consumers may want. So ask yourself where would we be without this technology? The ever changing world around us, we need to keep with consumers and people around the world and not worry about how stores can use footage to see what the consumer may want. We need to use a resource that can provide something better and help everyone with what they want not by videos, but why don’t they try actually speaking with