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Hurricane Florence’s Retail Punch

PYMNTS

The effect is pronounced enough that since 2004 Walmart has been stocking extra Strawberry PopTarts in its stores when a weather emergency is forecast because their sales spike every time. That pre-storm rush of commerce brought perhaps the expected pre-storm rush of the shady and greedy seeking out to take advantage of the alarmed.

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From AT&T To Xerox: 65 Corporate Innovation Labs

CB Insights

Products from these labs include HeartSense and AkTrac (“wellness apps for activity detection and physiological sensing using mobile phones and wearables”), a mobile phone digital stethoscope, and RehabBox, a “Kinect-based telerehab system for post stroke patients.”. Innovation Lab Name: IBM Mobile Innovation Lab. Founded: 2004.