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Interesting question for Portland re: Hannaford

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BenKarlow

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Are any Portland stations, news/talk or otherwise, talking about the Hannaford data breach scandal? Or are they shying away fearing corporate will pull potential ad dollars (Hannaford being a suburban Portland company)?

Inquiring (out of market) minds want to know!
 
the local stations that talk issues have worked the topic into the daily grind. it's a story. about the only fault, if that, anyone finds is the distance between the discovery and the revelation. these things happen far too frequently for my liking, but they happen.

as a side note - as a 27-year Shaw's shopper, i decided to do a litmus-test grocery order at Hannaford just this past weekend. saved an extremely large amount of money, by comparison (with no "card" or "coupons"), but awoke to the "you've-got-to-be-kidding-me" headlines a day later.

i'd suggest that the corporate folks who wish to avoid stuff like this in the future start looking for i/t guys & gals like the ones who have become the bane of my existence in other portions of the e-word... change the password every 90 days. 1 cap letter, 1 numeric/punctuation thing, no using the same 5 letter/number combo within the past 4 passwords...
not a technophobe - but this type of stuff is a pain-in-the-arse, and would drive most hackers crazy.
 
Erie...

The real bargains come when a store employee forgets to change the price card! I shop SHAWS, HANNAFORD, STOP'N'SHOP and WALMART....and inevitably find unexpected bargains that management has to honor!

The Hannaford Story is a shame because the store has (for the most part) avoided scandalous publicity. So when an unexpected "leak" happens...the media is going to jump all over it!

Kind of like vultures when your final drops of water are in the canteen??? :p

argytunes
 
argytunes said:
The Hannaford Story is a shame because the store has (for the most part) avoided scandalous publicity. So when an unexpected "leak" happens...the media is going to jump all over it!

Kind of like vultures when your final drops of water are in the canteen??? :p

argytunes
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Are you suggesting that the media in general shouldn't be treating this story as a big deal? Failing to protect your customers payment information IS a big deal. I'd say I've heard less about it on the radio than I would expect. This has had an effect on pretty much every listener in the area. Even music stations to not mention it in passing would be to miss a huge part of their listeners lives. I've heard more about this "on the street" than most local stories in recent memory.

I'm sure on some level coverage is dampened by the advertiser/station relationship but that's a bigger issue that plays out every day in every market in the world.
 
It has been getting plenty of press on the Bangor TV News, WLBZ2 and
WABI-TV5 have had stories on it every night since it broke. I never watch WVII ABC7news, so can't speak for them.

I know I'm getting old..I usually pay for groceries with cash or check. Save the credit card for vacations.
:-[
 
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