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This article in the NYTimes (Archived article)talks about how a subsidiary of Wal-mart, Sam’s Club, is tailoring deals for shoppers. Basically, they keep track of what you buy and offer your special deals/discounts based on your purchase history. This is a long time in coming. Like most Americans, I have a supermarket loyalty card that [...]

Wal-Mart and its cohorts are the most tempting, tantalizing, mouthwatering target for US trial lawyers. WM has a lot of money, does business in every state, and is a very labor-and-movement intensive business. So, here comes along this article (or here or here) that talks in detail about how hundreds of thousands of truckers and [...]