Describe what customer spotting is, its purpose, and the three approaches for obtaining information by means of customer spotting.

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Customer spotting is the process of locating the residences of customers for a store on a map and displaying their positions relative to the store location. The addresses for locating the customers' residences usually are obtained by asking the customers, recording the information from a check or Internet channel purchase, or collecting the information from customer loyalty programs. The data collected from customer spotting can be processed in two ways: manually plotting the location of each customer on a map or using a geographic information system.

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