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COVID Case Spike Adds Fuel To Digital-First Economy

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percent of millennial consumers say the same. Thirty-six states are reporting a sharp uptick in hospitalizations, with the number of people admitted for the virus up 5 percent week-on-week at a bare minimum, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project, which tracks testing, hospitalization and other data on the outbreak.

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Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

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Regardless, it’s an interesting data point for why the country’s oldest (and one of the world’s largest) CPGs – with a market cap of $34 billion – might be willing to wager at least some part of its future on a five-year-old company with $100 million in sales that sells bulk food online. For Boxed, it was nothing but upside.