A supermarket employee in Illinois is being hailed a hero after sprinting across the store's parking lot to save a baby who was strapped into a runaway shopping cart.
Ben Mazur, a courtesy clerk at a Schnucks supermarket in Alton, was wrangling shopping carts on March 17 when he heard a car horn "repeatedly and frantically honking," Schnucks recounted in a recent Facebook post. "As it turns out, the owner of the car was trying to get someone's attention because there was a runaway cart rolling down the store's parking lot," according to the supermarket chain.
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Owners of Montgomery Village negotiating sale of Santa Rosa shopping center to Boston-area
The owners of the landmark Montgomery Village shopping center in Santa Rosa are negotiating a potential sale of the property to a Boston-area developer that specializes in building and managing commercial projects combining stores, restaurants and offices.
David and Melissa Codding, owners of the eastside shopping center, have informed tenants they are engaged in talks to sell Montgomery Village to WS Development Co., after being contacted by the company last summer.
Everli, the European marketplace for online grocery shopping, bags $100M Series C –
Everli , the European marketplace for online grocery shopping that started in Italy but now also operates in Poland, Czech Republic and France, has raised a $100 million in Series C funding.
The round is led by Verlinvest, with participation from new investors Luxor, DN Capital, C4 Ventures and Convivialité Ventures. FITEC (part of Fondo Italiano d'Investimento), 360 Capital, Innogest and DIP also followed on.
Everli, formerly called Supermercato24, says it will use the injection of capital to accelerate growth and further expand its international footprint.
This Robot Could Help Fulfill Your Online Shopping Sprees | WIRED
Imagine for a moment that you have suction cups for fingertips—unless you're currently on hallucinogens, in which case you should not imagine that. Each sucker is a different size and flexibility, making one fingertip ideal for sticking onto a flat surface like cardboard, another more suited to a round thing like a ball, another better for something more irregular, like a flower pot. On its own, each digit may be limited in which things it can handle.
This is the idea behind Ambi Robotics, a lab-grown startup that is today emerging from stealth mode with sorting robots and an operating system for running such manipulative machines. The company's founders want to put robots to work in jobs that any rational machine should be terrified of: Picking up objects in warehouses. What comes so easily to people—grasping any object that isn't too heavy—is actually a nightmare for robots.
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Airport-close warehouses command higher rents as online shopping booms – Orange County
Warehouse space has gotten hard to find near Southern California's two main international airports, driving up rent for logistics firms and retailers trying to keep up with a boom in online shopping.
As a result, industrial landlords near Los Angeles and Ontario international airports are commanding some of the biggest "rent premiums" in the country, a recent analysis by commercial brokerage CBRE says.
Buildings with at least 75,000 square feet within five miles of LAX commanded rents that were 12.9% above the average for the L.A. market as a whole last year.
Show Me the Money: Shopping trends one year after pandemic | ABC27
Nearly half of those whose shopping habits changed during the pandemic expect those changes to be permanent.
When it comes to what we were buying this year, RetailMeNot says there was a big increase in sales for loungewear and fewer for jeans.
Home exercise equipment, computer and electronic accessories, hardware and home improvement supplies were in huge demand. Coffee and alcohol also saw a surge.
This year has been rough financially for so many as well. That’s why 70% say finding a discount or deal is more important now than it was a year ago.
Plano-based Pickup, hitched to the online shopping explosion, attracts $15 million in venture
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How to get the Telfar Shopping Bag that is always sold out
For the most part, last year's biggest shopping trends were pretty easy to predict. From tie-dye sweatsuits to the nap dress , we were looking for items that would keep us comfortable while we stayed home and adjusted to our new normal. So when the Telfar Shopping Bag became one of the most-wanted accessories of the year, it was somewhat surprising.
While other luxury brands struggled as the economy took a serious hit , Telfar, helmed by Liberian-American fashion designer, Telfar Clemens, seemed to have its best year yet. The global fashion shopping platform, Lyst, revealed in their Year in Fashion Report at the end of 2020 that searches for the brand saw a 270 percent increase week-on-week since August.
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