I like how I bought a vacuum months ago and everything keeps advertising them at me. I already got one! How many damn vacuums do you people think someone needs? Because the answer is almost never more than one. If they're collecting my data they should also be well aware that there's no way in hell I'm dropping $1k on a Dyson lmao

That's hilarious, but more than likely that's exactly what happened. I listened to someone explain the process on a podcast recently, can't remember which one maybe the Vergecast or vox today explained. But the example they used is you go to a country club you hang out with a friend who just bought a Porsche or whatever. They use your phones location to know you are always going to this location and sticking within a few feet of this other phone, the owner of which has the new Porsche. Well they figure that's your friend and he's probably talking up his porche, and your in the right demographic to buy a Porsche and you haven't bought a new car in x years, so guess what now you get Porsche ads. So what you described perfectly fits that example, they figured you'd all be suckers for some totes.

So.... Did you end up buying 100,000 totes like that other guy? Seeing that your mutual interests are large generic storage totes.