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...that's precisely what freaks privacy advocates like Katherine Albrecht, founder of New Hampshire--based CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering). In Albrecht's nightmare, her grocer scans her credit card--at the bottom of her purse--and tracks her around the store recording her selections. Police come knocking after tracing an RFID-tagged soda can found at a crime scene to her credit card. While RFID certainly has the potential to be the most invasive consumer technology ever, supporters--consumers themselves, after all--are working on safeguards, such as "kill codes" for tags after checkout. "Privacy mavens...
...POTASHBROS.COM This small Chicago grocer's site impressed us with its convenient, 30-min. windows and same-day delivery for orders placed by 10 a.m. Asparagus and vine-ripened tomatoes arrived "perfect and unblemished," our secret shopper reports. Best of all, she adds, "I didn't have to wait in line and worry about my car being hit in the parking lot by crazy carts." Delivery is from...
...February Muhammad was arrested for shoplifting veggie burgers, steaks and tea worth a total of $27.37 from a Tacoma grocer. Two months later, he visited an old Army buddy, Robert Edward Holmes, who claims that Muhammad showed him two rifles and a book on silencers, according to the arrest warrant that the feds would later use to nab Muhammad. "Can you imagine the damage you would do if you could shoot with a silencer?" Muhammad allegedly asked Holmes...
...aliens." There may be another warning sign: merchandising. This fall The Sopranos Family Cookbook, offering Italian recipes and anecdotes from the show's characters, hits bookstores. You can buy plans of Tony and Carmela's New Jersey rococo house and build one for yourself. And coming soon to your grocer: Sopranos gourmet foods, from pizza to marinara sauce (call it the it's-not-TV dinner). Can Sex and the City spermicidal foam be far behind...
Traditional grocery chains, saddled with flat sales and shriveled margins, find they need to sell more gourmet-health fare to compete against the likes of both Whole Foods and Wal-Mart, the nation's largest grocer. Regional supers such as Pratt's Food Supermarkets--a chain in the Oklahoma City, Okla., area--are fighting back with more organic dairy, meats and dry goods. Kroger, the nation's No. 2 grocer, has carved out "natural food" departments in nearly a third of its 2,400 stores and is expanding its private-label organic brand, which includes cereals and potato chips, with...