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Grubhub Launches Relief Fund To Aid Restaurants, Drivers

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Mayors from New York City, Chicago, Boston and Portland are participating in a program where Grubhub will suspend the collection of up to $100 million in commission payments from restaurants across the country. Independent restaurants are the lifeblood of our cities and feed our communities,” said Grubhub CEO Matt Maloney.

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Retail Pulse: 7-Eleven Tests Cashierless Tech; Staples Debuts Connect Store Concept

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Brick-and-mortar retailers are testing convenience store designs that let consumers skip the checkout line and pay for their purchases with their mobile phones. 7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto said in an announcement , “Retail technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and customer expectations are driving the evolution.

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Staples To Debut New Store Format With Coworking, Podcasting

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Staples is thinking outside the box with a new store format that highlights podcasting, community events and coworking spaces. The Staples Connect concept, which will be officially introduced in six Boston area stores on Feb. At a suburban Chicago location, unlimited drop-in access is said to be $100. Puerto Rico and the U.S.

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And Then There Were 20 — The Amazon HQ2 Finalists

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Austin, Boston, New York and D.C. Boston, Massachusetts. Chicago, Illinois. Through this process, we learned about many new communities across North America that we will consider as locations for future infrastructure investment and job creation.”. all made the cut, as did some surprises like Columbus, Ohio.

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Facebook Tracker: East, West And Everything In Between

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Chicago, Illinois. This week, Facebook announced it is increasing its office space in Chicago. The company first moved in to a half-floor last year and has since taken over the 28th floor of a 37-story office tower on Wacker Drive, The Chicago Tribune reported. Here are five locations to watch for activity in the near future.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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communities. communities. That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities.

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Bringing Luggage Storage Into The Digital Age

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They can then select a host, which could be, say, a retail store or hotel, and enter their drop-off and pick-up times in addition to their number of small and/or large bags. They’re “the fabric of all these different communities” in all these major cities, he noted.