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by neilv 1038 days ago
> But oh, hey, you just bought a vacuum cleaner? I know what you would really like! MORE VACUUMS!

Amazon did literally this to me just a couple days ago.

I'd bought a vacuum cleaner on Amazon a week earlier, and, when doing an Amazon checkout of a cart with one item, it threw up a list of consumable items that I'd bought in the past, to possibly add to the order... including another one of those $120 upright vacuum cleaners.

(Maybe they have data that says this makes them more money, even though I'd guess it might hurt customer confidence in the site.)