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The second obstacle to tracking food supply prices is the paper trail. the receipts listing changes come in willy nilly, on scraps of paper, left behind by the delivery man. no digital records at all. >> you get paper every day from vendors. theres so much paper, it sort of becomes pointless because i couldnt really find anything. might as well have just thrown it out, to be honest. >> in fact, thats exactly what lindsay does. she just throws them all out. but not before shes carefully scanned e...

Here. >> that daily receipt data is then e-mailed into her bill.com account for payment and also sent to a spreadsheet showing the rate shes paying. vendor by vendor day by day, month by month. >> theres frito lay. showing all of the bhils paid to frito lay. >> this allows her to track prices. >> either bringing them down with your vendors or adjusting your prices or dropping something off the menu. those kinds of things. >> by using the data this way to revise vendor orders lindsays retail busi...

Food supply prices is the paper trail. the receipts listing changes come in willy-nilly on scraps of paper, left behind by the deliveryman. no digital records at all. >> you get paper. every day. from vendors. but theres so much paper that it sort of becomes pointless. because i couldnt really find anything. you know. they might as well have just thrown it out. to be honest. >> reporter: in fact, thats exactly what lindsay does. she just throws them all out. but not before shes carefully scanned...