Baked by Melissa is entering the at-home baking aisle in Target stores as the retailer tries to persuade shoppers to spend more at its locations this holiday season.

BAKED GOODS OR A WARNING SIGN?? Friendly neighbor, or already past the line? A New Jersey woman says the older man next door started with desserts after she moved in, then worked up to ringing the doorbell four times a week, pounding for ten minutes when she didn't answer, peering in her front window, and cutting through another yard to find her in her pajamas having coffee. She's putting up a fence. Cookies are kind. Watching somebody through a window after they didn't answer the door is not kind. That's a boundary problem with a sugar coating. I'd rather look "rude" for texting "can't talk, in a meeting" than train my kids that persistence always earns access. Friendly has a stop sign. Use it.