New tool helps online shoppers buy lower-fat food
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NEW YORK  - An Internet-based system that   provides online food shoppers with purchase-specific dietary   advice helps them buy foods that are lower in saturated fat   than the foods they initially set out to buy, according to new   study findings.
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Shopping around shopping guides shows a new level of sophistication to buying online, a report suggests.
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Nutrition information and calculators from many popular restaurants.
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Retailers, hoping to lure shoppers at a time of soft sales, are tapping technology to make browsing and buying easier.
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Vendors and researchers have detected various new trends at play in online retail shopping this holiday season, such as shoppers' increased use of search engines and comparison shopping services to make better informed buying decisions. Not all trends are encouraging, however, such as a disconcertingly high percentage of shoppers willing to buy from spammers.
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Measuring a type of blood fat called triglycerides hours after a person has eaten may offer a better way to predict heart disease risk than making the person fast overnight, two studies suggest.
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Demand lots of value at low prices.
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A new online service makes it easy to track your expenses and even save some money.
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NEW YORK  - A new computer program rates  snack foods according to their nutritional components, enabling  kids to make healthier choices from school vending machines,  according to researchers.
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Retailers are increasingly offering ways for consumers to shop online but pick up their goods in stores, letting customers avoid shipping costs.
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Face it, shopaholics -- the Internet drains much of the fun out of holiday shopping and replaces it with ice-cold efficiency. Who wouldn't rather stroll through Neiman Marcus or Best Buy with their best buddy than sit solo in front of a computer, eyeballing page after page of tiny pictures showing what you could reach out and touch at real malls?
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Take your Virtual Wallet music shopping
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The Holy Grail of Internet shopping is being able to go online, click a few times, and find the exact product or service you want at the best possible price.
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Just need a reminder People will choose to eat healthily if given the option, researchers in Australia have found. An experiment involving 497 people shopping for groceries online found that, when prompted, people are very happy to swap an unhealthy food item for a lower fat alternative.â¦
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QUINCY -- Tara Withington, with her two young sons in tow, combs the aisles of Hannaford Bros. Co. supermarket for what she deems healthy enough to feed her family. Besides reading ingredients and studying her fruit for bruises, Withington says she needs a guarantee the organic foods she buys are kept far, far away from the store's conventional products.
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Exclusive Slim pickings for thin clients
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EBay released a beta program for a desktop application that makes shopping on the auction Web site easier.