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DECEMBER 9, 2020

locations recently added for Uber Connect include Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Charleston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Connecticut, Detroit, Fort Myers-Naples, Hampton Roads, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. Amazon is opening a 1 million-square-foot warehouse in metro Detroit and plans to hire 1,000 employees to fill it. Township leaders are ecstatic, yet some fear the company could kill more jobs than it creates because of its threat to the retail sector.

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AUGUST 29, 2020

Consider Ford’s Van Dyke Transmission Plant, which recently brought in two new dogs – Fluffy and Spot – onto the Detroit site’s assembly line. Although they look kind of dog-like, they’re actually quadruped robots designed by Boston Dynamics and leased by Ford. Such robots aren’t cheap. Robotic Hotel Workers. Warehouse Robots.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

In retail news, home goods eTailer Wayfair announced Friday (Sept. Currently available in 10 retail markets — including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City and San Francisco, among others — Chain Store Age reports the new feature will “transform what is considered a time-consuming, even frustrating, process.”

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APRIL 8, 2016

And maybe eat a meat popsicle (if they attend a Detroit Tigers game). Using the retail purchases of two tickets, two hot dogs, two beers and parking (the last of which is arguably more of a rental than it is a purchase) as its median factors, the outlet determined that the average cost across all the venues is $77.92.

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