Customers, too, would benefit once the food makes it to shelves. If a bundle of asparagus normally comes with a blue rubber band but one bunch's is black, for instance, people would know which ...

He'll probably be wearing a royal blue band on his wrist. It's not a Swatch Watch or a hospital name tag. Garnett, the $126-million Timberwolves sensation, wears rubber bands. Not those old brown ...