Similar story happened to me literally yesterday. Wanted a new vacuum, saw that a construction store chain that has a store nearby has some on offer, research them for a while on my phone, go buy it, use it.
Then later, I get ads for that exact model and some others from that exact store on my phone while browsing for something completely unrelated.
Yeah, not system can know that I already bought something offline, but still…
Similar story happened to me literally yesterday. Wanted a new vacuum, saw that a construction store chain that has a store nearby has some on offer, research them for a while on my phone, go buy it, use it.
Then later, I get ads for that exact model and some others from that exact store on my phone while browsing for something completely unrelated.
Yeah, not system can know that I already bought something offline, but still…
Google cannot wanted to not sure where it landed. They wanted credit card records so they could see who purchased what. I think they did do the deal.