Proprietary Prize Tickets, bearing the Chuck E. Cheese trademark, act as a form of currency at the restaurant chain’s prize counters. But reduced use of them during the coronavirus pandemic has led to a massive buildup in the company's supply chain and a plan to send 7 billion paper tickets to the shredder.
In a motion filed with a Texas bankruptcy court this week, Chuck E. Cheese’s parent company, CEC Entertainment, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year, asked the court’s permission to "arrange for the destruction” of "enough tickets to fill approximately 65 forty-foot cargo shipping containers."
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Red Hat Marketplace Delivers Ingredients For Rapidly Building Cloud-Native Solutions
Red Hat’s new open source software market aims to make it easier for solution providers to cobble together dynamic applications that can run across hybrid cloud environments.
The new Red Hat Marketplace offers enterprise customers and partners open source tools curated and validated by the industry’s largest open source player to use in assembling cloud-native solutions orchestrated by OpenShift, Red Hat’s leading Kubernetes platform , Cameron Clayton, general manager for IBM Cloud ecosystem, told CRN.
What's behind LA's real estate resurgence? - Marketplace
After a volatile spring season with lockdowns and mass unemployment, Southern California’s real estate market is making a rebound. Home sales in the area rose more than 2% from a year ago, as housing demand soared for people stuck working from home. Low interest rates have also fueled the demand for buyers and those looking to refinance existing mortgages.
Kai Ryssdal: So what a difference six months make, right? We talked to you in March at the beginning of all this, and suffice it to say, it was not looking great in real estate and mortgages. Open houses being cancelled, all of that stuff. How’s it been?
Will gyms go extinct due to the pandemic? - Marketplace
Apple enters a crowded field: Peloton, Nike, Adidas and a bunch of other tech and athletic brands are already there. The online fitness industry is projected to grow by 20% over the next seven years.
Joe Favorito, a sports marketing consultant and professor at Columbia University, says, “Anyone who's in the fitness business that doesn't have some sort of online component right now, and is trying to look back to where we were on March 13, is going to be in a lot of trouble. “
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Amazon's product quality woes extend beyond its Marketplace | Retail Dive
Three U.S. Senators are demanding that Amazon "immediately stop selling any AmazonBasics products that are defective, notify consumers that are in possession of these products, and work with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to conduct swift and thorough recalls to remove these dangerous products from homes."
The letter from Democrats Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Ed Markey of Massachusetts follows a CNN report last week detailing fires, burns and other safety hazards and injuries from the brand's battery chargers, microwaves and other products.
Local artist to be featured in OC Visions marketplace | Arts | myeasternshoremd.com
CAMBRIDGE — Local mosaic artist Lisa Scarbath will participate in the Visions Artisan Marketplace at the Center for the Arts in Ocean City, sponsored by the Art League of Ocean City on Oct. 3.
Scarbath, who creates her art under the name Pieceful Designs Mosaics, entered her work for the jurying process of the Visions art show to be held in October. The Visions Artisan Marketplace participants were chosen by the juror for the Visions show, which focuses on the rise, growth and progress of women during the last 100 years, their challenges, self-discovery, victories and defeats.
Who can afford to vote? - This Is Uncomfortable from Marketplace
Election season is in the home stretch. With mail-in balloting already open in some states and many others getting close, voters have to ask themselves some hard questions.
What if your polling place is closed? Can you get off work if you have to wait for hours to cast your ballot? Are you able to get a mail-in ballot? How late can you mail it in? How do you know it will be counted? If you risk your health and vote in-person, will your insurance cover you?
DORO Marketplace like a European cafe, specialty grocery store and place to grab dinner in West
A trip to Europe is currently out of the question thanks to COVID-19, but the new DORO Marketplace in West Hartford fills that void a bit, with a chic coffeehouse atmosphere, shelves full of imported specialty products and perfectly flaky croissants, made with French butter.
The new fast-casual concept by the DORO Restaurant Group, which opened over Labor Day Weekend, is part cafe, grocery store and bakery, with counter service and grab-and-go meals. The building, at the corner of New Britain Avenue and South Main Street, is a new area of town for the group, which has three restaurants (Treva, Avert and Zohara) in West Hartford Center on Farmington Avenue and LaSalle Road.
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Chuck E. Cheese filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. But this week, the company asked a bankruptcy court for per… https://t.co/iDB1bcY8Xz Marketplace (from United States) Fri Sep 18 04:04:04 +0000 2020
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