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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 competition in the autonomous shopping arena. Checkout-free retail solutions provider Accel Robotics is laun...

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 and set up payment methods through. For security, the store is gated and requires the app to unlock it...

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 worry about in 2020. A patchwork of laws prevented eviction of tenants who had suffered income losse...

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 come out and share their thoughts, but as has been pointed out, we’re not willing to risk our heal...