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Why Google is phasing out tracking cookies

Jan 5, 2024
These cookies follow you around the internet — a major privacy issue, advocates say. But getting rid of them won't get rid of targeted ads.
Google will roll out a set of new tools that still track your behavior online — so we'll still be getting those targeted ads.
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Baked goods and cereals cost 16% more in December. What gives?

Jan 12, 2023
Per the consumer price index, bread and cookies cost more dough because their ingredients do too. Yes, the government tracks cookies.
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Online sales of Girl Scout cookies skyrocket in the pandemic

Apr 25, 2022
What might be lost or gained as Scouts migrate to web sales, instead of going from door to door?
Nine-year-old Gianna Salcedo canvasses her neighborhood in Sacramento, California, to sell Girl Scout cookies the old-fashioned way — by knocking on doors.
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Pandemic or not, consumers have an appetite for sweet snacks

May 17, 2021
The snack industry is seeing inflation, so you may have to pay a higher price for those cupcakes.
A stack of boxes of Twinkies, Hostess' most popular product, sits on a grocery store shelf. Hostess went public today, after years of financial strife and transformation.
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Ferrero seeks more U.S. shelf space with Kellogg deal

Apr 1, 2019
The Italian company — maker of global staple, Nutella — is buying several cookie and snack brands from Kellogg Co., which is trying to focus on other hit brands, like Cheez-It crackers. The deal will give Ferrero more visibility in snack aisles across the U.S. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
Jars of Nutella are displayed on a shelf at a market in San Francisco, California. 

 
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If you lead people to a more private search engine, will they care?

Sep 25, 2018
"People talk a big game here when it comes to privacy, but they don't actually do very much," one venture capitalist says.
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Swedish Fish Oreos are a thing

Aug 10, 2016
Because Nabisco just can't draw the line at Pumpkin Spice.
Yep, they're a thing.
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Oreos are slimming down

Jul 6, 2015
The sandwich cookie will now come in a thinner variety.

Selling Girl Scout cookies in the digital age

Apr 6, 2015
CEO Anna Maria Chávez on upgrading the organization for tech-savvy girls.
As CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, Anna Maria Chavez has been working to bring the organization into the digital age.
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Verizon, AT&T and the new supercookies

Nov 4, 2014
Supercookies are hard to detect and some can't be turned off.