Smart carts promise easier shopping at industry convention
At the Chicago supermarket show the new cart devices with built in screens aim to guide shoppers to items, tally purchases, and offer discounts based on buying habits. Vendors from IBM and Springboard discuss GPS style tracking, bar code scanning, and clouded pricing while noting high costs for retailers to install the systems.
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Sugar pie and tofu fritters from a coastal kitchen
A nostalgic recipe collection blends Quebecs sucre au caramel style sugar pie with tofu fritters inspired by Asian and Caribbean influences. It includes a detailed sugar pie method using maple sugar and cream, plus brie and crab dip ideas and notes on serving with milk.
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Dear Abby Pup's bad behavior puts mom in doghouse
Dear Saturated: It is not your job to discipline your in laws dog. The dog should be managed by the owners. Offer to board him when they visit or travel to them instead. The letter also notes a family secret about the father-in-law’s paternity.
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Dear Abby Advice Column from a Troubled Family Letter
A reader recounts family secrecy and a troubling confession about past mistreatment by her husband’s uncle Aunt Vivian urged silence but the writer faces a moral dilemma about revealing a long buried truth to her spouse or to her mother in law The piece notes Dear Abby author Jeanne Phillips and contact details for the column as context
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Advice column on moving out and dating pitfalls
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