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A handful of startups raised venture capital funding—and eyebrows from curious onlookers—as their semiautonomous, cooler-sized robots rolled onto college campuses and communities in recent years. University campuses started out as prime locations to test this technology. ...
One little-known home and retail automation startup might seem like an unlikely candidate to help combat the ongoing pandemic. But its founder says its technology can do just that, even if it wasn’t the company’s original plan.
Dozens of retailers, some of them the lifeblood of America's shopping malls, have been pushed to the brink and filed for bankruptcy during the coronavirus pandemic. Apparel brands like J.Crew, Brooks Brothers and New York & Co. parent company RTW Retailwinds. Department store chains Neiman Marcus, J.C. Penney and Stage Stores. The health chain GNC. The kitchen supp...
The effects of COVID-19 are far-reaching for all industries, and the commercial real estate sector is no outlier. All asset classes have had to deal with the ebbs and flows of tenant responses to this environment - at the forefront payment defaults, store closures, and lease terminations. Naturally, vacancy and delinquency rates have spiked, putting pressure on owners and operators of commercial s...
Karma Kitchen, the London-based kitchen space startup, has raised £252m in a Series A funding round to open dozens of new sites across Europe. “People think it’s a typo,” laughs Eccie Newton, cofounder of Karma Kitchen, who currently operates one kitchen site, has a five-person team and had initially set out to raise £3m. ...
When Litisha Thomas heard through the gossip mill that the shuttered Sam’s Club where she’d worked for 11 years might be reopening in her rural North Carolina hamlet, she immediately jumped on an internet job board to see if it was hiring. It was, but this wasn’t a conve...
CREtech (cretech.com) and FUTURE PropTech, the largest intelligence platforms devoted to Reimagining Real Estate, announced today that Sineesh Keshav, Chief...
Parking lots, of all places, are turning into bigger sources of revenue for some mall owners during the coronavirus pandemic. Brookfield Properties has signed a deal with entertainment company Kilburn Live to turn the parking lots at a number of its malls in the U.S. into drive-in t...
Amazon is expanding its real-world footprint with another unconventional physical product: a shopping cart. While it certainly looks like an aesthetic upgrade to your standard grocery store cart, the Dash Cart, as it’s called, is in fact a smart version of the tried-and-true food transport vehicle.