How stores are spying on you (encore)86%
By Monica Nickelsburg0% Joshua McNichols0% Lucy Soucek0% Alec Cowan0% Carol Smith0%
12/24/2025, 8:45:01 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Optimism Bias, and In-Group Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 46.5% saturation with 93 hits. Analysis detected 405 faulty-reasoning hits from 200 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 79.1% and a BS Rank of 86% (2,437 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 85.50% of the article peer group.
The Booming team is hard at work on some new episodes coming out next year.
In the meantime, we wanted to revisit some of our favorite stories this holiday season.
We think this one will be particularly useful for those of you still doing some last-minute holiday shopping.
It explores the ways AI is being used by some of your favorite retailers to get better at selling you stuff.
This story first aired in December 2024 -- you can read the original story here: How Stores are Spying on You
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Our producers are Lucy Soucek and Alec Cowan.
Our hosts are Joshua McNichols and Monica Nickelsburg.
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