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Retailers Collecting Shoppers� E-Mail

Increasingly, retail sales stores have collected customers� e-mail addresses to conduct marketing. Data marketers are attempting to link off-line purchases with online personalities to build more comprehensive profiles of consumers.

E-Mail Becomes Marketing Treasure For Retailers, Washington Post, April 26, 2001.