Want to stop enriching people whose politics you hate? There’s an app for that.

Matthew Colbert, a former campaign and Capitol Hill staffer, has built an app for smartphones that allows users to scan the barcode of products in the grocery store and immediately find out which political party the company and its employees support. (Any relation to Stephen Colbert, who also shares an interest in money in politics? This Colbert played coy and curiously declined to answer, though in March he told the Web site UberStories that “I’ve been told we’re distant cousins.”)

Source: Want to stop enriching people whose politics you hate? There’s an app for that. - The Washington Post