The Rise Of Technology In Home-Building, Dining And Retail

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Online home-building upstart Welcome Homes is aiming to expediently and smoothly put migrating millennials into new residences. In retail logistics, a last-mile frenzy has merchants and eateries competing for delivery providers. And in restaurants, more consumers than ever are using mobile apps to order takeout and delivery. All this, Today in Data.

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    Data:

    $650K: Starting price of Welcome Homes’ current models, excluding land.

    56%: Share of QSRs that have seen an increase in customer engagement on mobile order-ahead apps.

    35%: Portion of consumers who order in-store from restaurants at least twice weekly.

    $5M: Seed funding California-based URB-E landed to scale its high-tech delivery container business.

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    2: Number of partners DoorDash is teaming up with to bring COVID tests to consumers’ homes.