[seventh-chord]

Except the things you mention correspond to looking at sales data in your backend DB, not putting google analytics in your frontend, right?

[ksm1717]

I think classifying grocery store operations as frontend/backend is too far from reality to be a useful analogy. That’s not to say that I don’t agree that google analytics is more insidious than just about anything grocery stores do.

[Mauricebranagh]

Erm heard of footfall monitoring and tracking customers by their phones.

[madeofpalk]

Depends whether you think a "loyalty" program, or customer tracking cameras is frontend or backend