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Caltrans said late Sunday that the northbound 5 near Balboa Park was closed due to flooding. By then, water had been gushing onto the freeway for hours.

Accel Robotics, a leading startup for checkout-free retail solutions powered by computer vision and artificial intelligence, today announced the soon-to-be-open Valet Market, an automated shopping experience for modern communities. Valet Market is an autonomous community market offering 1,500 square feet of retail space within Brookfields luxury high-rise community,  Vantage Pointe, in San Diegos East Village. Designed as a shared pantry for the neighborhood, shoppers at Valet Market will fi...

Co-op Group has announced a 10-point action plan to hit zero-carbon by 2040 UK: Asda launches first ESG report Asda has published its first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report which sets out its commitments to a sustainable business strategy and outlines how the supermarket will make it easier and affordable for customers to shop sustainably. In launching its first report, Asda is recognising the growing importance of ESG issues to customers, investors, suppliers and the communiti...

Valet Market, located on the ground floor of the luxury apartment complex Vantage Pointe, will have no cashiers or checkout stations. Instead, shoppers will be able to walk in, take items, and walk out. The items taken will be automatically charged to the shoppers account. The technology is designed by a local startup called Accel Robotics. Accel has created a mobile app that people can download and set up payment methods on. The store is gated and requires the mobile app to unlock it. The a...

Loblaw beat market estimates for quarterly revenue US: David McInerney steps down as FreshDirect CEO David McInerney, the onetime chef who co-founded the iconic New York e-grocery retailer FreshDirect 20 years ago, is departing as its CEO. McInerney is to be succeeded on an interim basis by Farhan Siddiqi, chief digital officer of Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch retailer that acquired the company earlier this year. US: Autonomous shopping coming to San Diego high-rise community Amazon Go has competit...

Print A futuristic grocery store is opening in East Village on the ground floor of the luxury high-rise apartment complex Vantage Pointe. The new store, called Valet Market, was designed by local tech startup Accel Robotics, and it contains no cashiers or checkout kiosks. Instead, the market allows shoppers to walk in, grab items off shelves, and walk back out — with all items automatically charged to the shopper’s account. Accel does this through a mobile app that shoppers can download an...

Print San Diego’s rent growth slowed in 2020 and all it took was a global pandemic. For the first time in roughly 10 years, rent prices did not go up for much of San Diego County — especially in the months directly following COVID-19 hitting the United States. Rents eventually stabilized but it wasn’t an eye-popping amount. The price of a one-bedroom apartment increased 2.9 percent in 12 months as of February, said rental website Zumper Landlords had more than just slowed rent growth to ...

To the editor: After seeing the images included in Becky Johnson’s “Public may finally get chance to speak at Waynesville meeting” story and reading a Dec. 2 letter to the editor, it’s clear that the town board is only getting to hear voices that represent one side of the masking mandate (which shouldn’t be a debate at all). Perhaps if the statewide mandate were actually enforced in the meeting spaces, the science-believing, empathetic Haywood County residents would com...