those times priape-toronto employees seemed to know what i had been looking at on their online catalog. i went to priape after checking their online catalog and bought an herbal supplement. when i got there the product the catalog listed as in stock, was unavailable and the staff suggested another which i declined. this happened several times each time i was given a different excuse why it wasn't available any more and it was suggested by the employee, with a smirk on his face, i should buy the other and more expensive product.
this could be used in a fiction. a person checks a recreational sex shop web catalog to see if an herbal supplement is available and then goes in and buys some. he does this several times and then one time he is told it is not available at that time maybe he would try this other product but he declines.
this being asked to buy another more expensive item happens over four or five more visits and then the store is closed. a few days later he reads in the paper that the store was closed because the staff were collecting or receiving metadata from cyber hackers or rogue csec agents of people's searches into their catalog and using that to blackmail customers into buying something more expensive when they come in the store.