“…retail vacancies are at their lowest level in two decades…”
“…rents remain on the rise.”
Source (https://knowledge-leader.colliers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/4Q23-Retail-Stats.pdf)
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Retail Vacancy Rates
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Artemis
Source (https://reddit.com/r/space/comments/x0d1ci/a_few_pics_of_nasas_artemis_rocket_scheduled_to/)
Originally scheduled to launch today but just delayed a few minutes ago.
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James Webb Telescope
“This slice of the vast universe is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.”
“The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying more distant galaxies, including some seen when the universe was less than a billion years old.”
“This image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago, with many more galaxies in front of and behind the cluster.”
Source (https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-038)
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Emissions rebound
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US gains jobs
Added 467,000 jobs in January.
Also undercounted 709,000 jobs in November and December.
Unemployment rate currently at 4%.
Unemployment rate pre-pandemic was 3.5%.
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Declining Religion
“The Worcester Red Sox have retrofitted a convenience/memorabilia shop at their home stadium for frictionless shopping.”
“Standard AI retrofitted the WooSox Market store, which sells snacks and sports memorabilia, using ceiling-mounted cameras and proprietary computer vision software which associates each shopper with the items they pick up. After adding their payment information to the Standard AI checkout app, customers can enter the store, select the items they want, and tap their phone to walk out.”
(https://chainstoreage.com/minor-league-team-debuts-baseballs-first-autonomous-store)
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The decline of unions
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Record retail imports
“Imports for 2021 are expected to total 26 million twenty-foot equivalent units (a TEU is one 20-ft. container or its equivalent), up 18.3% over 2020 and the highest number since NRF began tracking imports in 2002.”
“The projected total would top last year’s previous record of 22 million, which was up 1.9% despite the pandemic.”
“The growth rate would also be the highest on record, topping 16.7% in 2010 as the economy recovered from the Great Recession.”
(https://chainstoreage.com/retail-imports-show-record-growth-despite-supply-chain-disruption)
(https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/2021-retail-imports-show-record-growth-despite-pandemic)
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