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Consumers have plenty to say to Gillette about its RFID spy chips. Add your message by writing: Dick_Cantwell@gillette.comBack to the original feedback page Dear Mr. Cantwell, Please tell me this is not true. http://www.boycottgillette.com I shave with Gillette products as I like them. Recently I upgraded to your Mach III and I love it. I guess I spend a couple of hundred pounds a year on your products as I am very aware of my personal grooming. But now I see that you are going to "Track Me" with Big Brother technology. I am sorry but I feel any trust I have for your company is gone. What else do you do? Are there dangerous chemicals in your shaving soaps that I should know about too? If you stop doing this I will buy your products again. But for now, I am buying a brand that will respect my privacy. I am sending this e-mail to 10 other friends and family in NZ, Poland, Australia and the UK. Regards, Dear Sir: I have a razor that takes Atra blades. Now that you have added RFID chips to your products, I shall be throwing out my Atra razor and replacing it with a product from one of your competitors. Your decision to add RFID tracking to your products is the major factor driving my decision. I am not interested in being identified by the products I use. May your bottom line suffer for your thoughtless abuse of technology. Sincerely, Sorry guys, dump the pictures and chips, this family will no longer buy gillette........ I will not buy Mach3 Turbo, Mach3, SensorExcel, Sensor, Atra, Trac II, Custom Plus and Good News disposable razors, Venus, Sensor Excel for Women, Sensor for Women, Daisy and Agility brand disposable razors, Right Guard, Soft & Dri, Dry Idea Gillette Series, Satin Care, Braun brand products: electric shavers, hair epilators, (Silk Epil brand), small household appliances, Duracell Batteries, or Oral-B dental care products. Steve G.... Dear Mr. Cantwell: As a Boston native I have always been proud that my city is host to a company that has always been an international leader in its market and has fostered progressive policies towards its workforce. I also happen to believe that you make the best razors in the world, which I have used since my first shave at age fourteen. However, I have now learned that Gillette is hiding RFID chips in their packaging, and that these chips are used to trigger hidden cameras to take pictures of consumers who pick the packages off the shelves at retail stores. One can only imagine how such a decision was approved by your board, but I cannot imagine that anyone at Gillette could possibly believe that consumers would not mind having their picture taken by a spy camera. Even if they are not used to trigger spy cameras on store shelves, RFIDs, due to their ability to be read secretly at a distance, pose a whole host of privacy issues which have never been fully dealt with. Unfortunately for Gillette, the "spy camera" issue could be the spark that starts a much needed public debate about RFIDs. Gillette can best serve the public and its customers by coming clean on exactly how it used RFIDs and by committing itself to a policy of informing consumers on the package label whether an RFID is imbedded and if so how it is used. Sincerely, James F. R.... Dear Mr. Cantwell, I was alarmed to learn that your company will be using the RFID in your products. I am wholeheartedly opposed to this invasion of privacy and lack of goodwill. I therefore will be boycotting your products and will advise everyone I know and meet to do likewise until you have publicly declared your products to be RFID free. Thank you, Lance B... Your RFID scheme, however useful, contains enormous potential for a variety of abuses, including egregious, abhorrent invasion of privacy. Harvey L.... Dear Dick, I have been using Gillette shaving cream and Good News
disposable razors for almost 20 years. I have always preferred your
products over the generic alternatives and other name brands because of
the superior quality. The same goes for Duracell Batteries. My wife
uses soft & dri and one of your electric shavers. This is an invasion of my privacy, and makes people guilty until proven innocent. I feel this is a nasty way to treat your loyal customers...... and I will do everything in my power to tell as many people as i can, and actively seek others who use your products and convince them never to use them again. I have spent thousands of dollars over the past 2 decades. Your company must be doing very well, or you have grossly miscalculated the effects of this strategy. It is not to late to stop this. Very soon it will be.
JOE D.... Er, no thanks Dick. Until I hear there're no RFID chips in your products, I'm boycotting Gillette, and will recommend that my friends and family do the same. Love, I will not buy spy-chipped products off picture-snapping shelves! I hope this is not true because I buy products from Gillette a lot. Now I am hearing that I am being spied on.. Please reply with your side of the story. Chris G.... Well I won't be buying them, however, I do sport a beard most of the time! regards Is it true that your company is taking pictures of customers without their permission? To determine shopping habits? This is shameful!!! You should not be taking pictures of customers without their consent! If you want to find out who's buying your products, just do a customer survey (with the customers' consent) to find out what they're buying!!!!! You sneaky bastards!!!! I know I won't buy anything made by your company until this is resolved!!!!!!!. Vanessa F. JUST SO YOU KNOW, I will not be buying: * Gillette razors, * Right Guard, Soft & Dri and Dry Idea deodorants * Braun brand household appliances * Duracell batteries and * Oral-B dental products. and I will also be recommending that my dental patients try out your competitors' products. BAAAAADDDD MOVE, GILLETTE! I've been using Gillette products for the past 7+ years, from the introduction of the Sensor up to the current Mach3 Turbo (which, IMO, is the best blade on the market today). However, I am now discontinuing my use of all Gillette products until Gillette discontinues use of RFID chips in their packaging to track customers. Surreptitiously tracking the very folks who are purchasing your products is a fine way of rewarding their loyalty. Until this behavior changes, you've lost my business (and at the price those razors go for, that amounts to several hundred dollars a year). Tracking them with RFID chips is bad enough, but I was appalled to read that you're actually using RFID to trigger hidden camera photos of potential customers. That kind of behavior could very well lose you my business permanently. I can't believe this was sanctioned company policy. My boycott will also find me changing brands on batteries, toothbrushes, deodorants and any future small appliance purchases that might have included Braun appliances. I await your reply, if any. Scott F.... I haven't noticed it yet at my local Wal-Mart, or any other store, but rest assured, I will be looking and not buying your products. Bob T.... You need to understand that there is a point that the general public (Read that US Citizens) will say No and Mean it! This is one of those points. A lot of us realize that RFID chips are probably completely legitimate and intended only to track your stock, But we are still saying NO to them and your products if they contain the chips ! Because it will lead to clothes and shoes etc. having them and then every time we go through a door (yes we realize the very limited range the chips can re-broadcast a received signal - I am an electrical Eng.) That a record of our name (if we purchased the product with a credit card or grocery store discount card) or someone else wearing our cloths like a smart bank robber will be recorded as US ! We are using your company and Walmart to make our showing to the rest of the corps that we will not accept this, So you better take the friendly advice and not do it, If you do not only will we not buy your product with the chips but it will be a whole new generation of kids in elementary school now who will be your next customers even if you announce you removed the chips because we won't trust you and of course at least 10 years of payback for crossing us ! If you got this same information from one of your Suits earning $300,000 a year you would listen to it, But getting it for free from me/us you probably won't. So the Dance Begins I shall boycott any Gillette products until this insane practice of implanting RFIDs in your products is stopped. What incredibly moral bankrupt and perverted creatures those of you who are pushing this are! Marie McC.... Dear Sir: As a long-time user of the Gillette disposable razor it disappoints me your company has chosen this route. While I can understand from a marketing point of view how it would be advantageous to use these chips, I find it a repugnant strategy. To disregard the privacy that all of us in the human community treasure, in order to make more money is certainly a Faustian bargain. I will find an alternate product to use for a fine shave unless and until you drop this ill-advised plan of tracking your customers. I will tell others to do the same and as a friend of mine is fond of saying, "I got a big mouth." Dick, does Gillette use devices (spy chips) on their products to track consumer purchase patterns? Also, is one of the devices taking pictures of consumers as they purchase certain Gillette products? Please advise as my family's future Gillette purchases will be based on this information, or the lack there of. Thank you. Tony G The question is: WHY are you taking consumers photos and WHAT are you doing with them? I've used your razors since I was 17. Not anymore. I'd rather use sandpaper than have my photo taken. Sincerely,Mike P.... This is just a fraction of the e-mail Gillette has received
(not to mention the huge number of phone calls to Gillette's customer service
hotline). |