Update available for another user's apps

I just purchased a brand new iMac & set up two users with separate usernames/passwords.  Now the app store says I have updates for apps that I don't have, nor want. These are apps that my wife downloaded under her username/profile.

You are seeing her app updates and she will see your app updates because App Store searches all the hard disk to find App Store apps.
Also, applications are installed by default on a common folder for both users (/Applications), so you can try to move the App Store applications to ~/Applications (being ~ your user folder). Doing this, the other user shouldn't be able to see app updates for your Apple ID as you can't access to one user folder from a different one

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