WASHINGTON (AP) — Craig Auster studies his iPhone in Magruder’s, a small, family-owned grocery store in the Chevy Chase section of the District of Columbia, and navigates his way to a crate of sugar snap peas.

He rips a plastic produce bag off the stand and meticulously sifts through the green peas, checking for any flaws, filling the bag and weighing it until it reaches precisely half a pound.

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