Ron's Hardware store tracks consumer buying habits and then uses that data to design marketing messages. For instance, data analysis indicated that consumers who $p$ such as geraniums, hododendrons, and azaleas usually retumed within $30$ days to purchase fertilizer designed for outdoor flowing plants. Therefore, Ron tailored a twomessage for this segment that highlighted sales on flowering plant fertilizers. Marketers refer to this process a:

A$.$ asynchronous interaction

B$.$ horizontal revolution

C$.$ geography marketing

D$.$ database marketing

F $C2C$ e$-$commerce