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BOSTON A HANDY HELPER
The popular Stop & Shop grocery chain in the Boston area is testing out the new "Shopping Buddy," a tablet-sized computer that alerts customers to specials and helps them find items around the store. The Shopping Buddy uses wi-fi to relay information from a desktop computer in the back of each store to the tablets.
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Wi-fi may have been invented as a way to network PCs, but it is turning into a boon for all sorts of household products
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FROM THE NOV. 3, 2003 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED SUNDAY, OCT. 26, 2003
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