In real estate and in retail, location is everything. Malls operated on that theory for years: Put a few anchor stores in to draw foot traffic and the smaller ancillary stores feast on the revenue rewards of being close by. Of course the inverse effect...
Aging fleets, fickle car buyers and, of course, Uber and Lyft are all proving to be a perfect storm for rental stalwarts Hertz and Avis. But then again, if you can’t beat em, join em — and that’s a strategy that just might help avoid some...
Friendship is one of life’s great pleasures, even if it does get the short end of the stick on occasion compared to romantic love. And love certainly has done wonderful things — the Taj Mahal is very impressive, Shakespeare’s sonnets are English language classics and, were...
Just one month after its IPO, Blue Apron is closing a New Jersey facility and moving 1,270 jobs to a larger site opening in the state later this year. According to Bloomberg Technology, more than half of the employees at the Jersey City facility have...
Supermarket operator Food Lion announced Tuesday (Aug. 1) it launched a new mobile app to make grocery shopping — and saving on grocery shopping through couponing and other perks — easier for customers across its ten-state footprint. In a news release, the company said the new mobile...
Apple has its HomePod to thank for leaks about the upcoming iPhone 8. That’s according to news from TechCrunch, which reported Apple released the firmware for its HomePod voice-activated speaker last week, and blogger Steve Troughton-Smith dissected it to glean information about the upcoming iPhone...
Aiming to boost revenue after showing no user growth in its recently reported quarterly earnings, social media mogul Twitter has launched a beta version of a new subscription service that enables automatic promotions of tweets. On its website, the microblogging company noted with the new program,...
Starbucks wants to prove how well it really knows you as its customers — or at least, how well its artificial intelligence can get to you know you — especially if you are a rewards member. The getting to know you (getting to know all...
SEB AB, the largest bank in Sweden, is getting into the voice-activated digital assistant game with the launch of Aida. According to a news report in Bloomberg, Aida aims to free up time for humans to work on more complex tasks. “There are some frequent, simple tasks...