Created by three friends, ‘Your Local Delivered’ is a free-to-use online community to connect local businesses (pubs, groceries, butchers, etc.) with people in lockdown at home in the UK.
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Schwarzkopf USA launches a new campaign and platform to help salons stay in business by enabling them to create and sell digital vouchers to their customers who soon need their post quarantine hair done.
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The website enables Londoners to discover and connect with local businesses in their city remotely, to find grocers, butchers, beer & wine merchants, restaurants, and cafes that will deliver to your front door. And also to stay and entertained with virtual exercise & yoga classes, child tutoring, cooking lessons, and more.
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Adrian Cheng announced that he is supplying vending machines stocked with free medical-grade face masks across Hong Kong to help protect people from COVID. Launching in late April, 35 vending machines will be installed in designated service centres across 18 of the city’s districts.
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Several self-service technologies have been adopted over the past three months in China to help mitigate the risks caused by COVID. These include face masks vending machines by Topow, hot meal vending containers by Country Garden, unmanned grocery stores by Alibaba and self-service pick-up lockers by Meituan.
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Chinese companies have come up with new ways to optimally allocate human resources during the COVID epidemic from businesses that haven’t resumed operations or are only partially operating due to lockdowns or declining business.
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The website Space Out helps shoppers check how crowded malls are with colour codes according to current crowd levels, in hopes that people will make better decisions about where to go amid the COVID outbreak.
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The website is a platform that connects people in Colombia with the closest shopkeepers from their homes. With a call or a message from WhatsApp people can order anything they want from their neighbourhood shops and receive it at their doorstep.
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Hero is helping stores use digital tools to stay connected with their customers during lockdown. For example, the Hero platform offers video calling between store associates and customers from each others smartphones, as well as coordinating follow-up questions via texts.
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An online marketplace has been launched in France to centralise the distribution of critical supplies needed by key workers on the frontlines. The StopCovid19.fr platform is seen as the 'Amazon for COVID supplies' providing protective equipment to healthcare facilities, transport workers and supermarket clerks in less than a week, with the backing of the French government.
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The robot is an autonomous van that uses LIDAR, cameras, and deep-learning algorithms to drive itself, able to carry up to 1,000 kilograms on its cargo compartment. The unmanned vehicle provides a 'contactless' alternative to regular deliveries, helping to reduce the risk of person-to-person infection.
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John Vincent, founder of Leon restaurants, partnered with international hospitality provider Absolute Taste to sell pre-packaged meals and ambient sauces to the public through delivery to the door and Leon’s chain of restaurants. Other restaurants and caterers are being invited to join the scheme.
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Deciem and Kiehl’s are among the businesses gearing up to launch one-on-one digital consultations, to keep employees employed, and help customers find the right products.
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Delhaize and Colruyt are joining forces in order to supply hospital staff with grocery deliveries, which will be free of charge. Both are inviting competitors to join the initiative.
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The London Baker, a bakery in Lewisville's Castle Hills Village Shops has introduced two new Quarantine Cakes shaped like toilet paper rolls with the nicknames "#Surviving2020" and "Survival Kit." And it is not the only bakery doing so: toilet paper cakes have become a national phenomenon in the UK.
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Aldi and McDonald's have agreed the discounter can take over staff from restaurants the fast-food chain had to close due to the COVID lockdown. The agreement is valid for a limited period only and afterwards all those who apply can simply return to their jobs at the US fast-food chain.
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Uber Eats is teaming up with French supermarket group Carrefour for a new delivery service aimed at helping people stuck at home buy essential goods and food. Berlin-based online marketplace Delivery Hero has also made changes to its operations spanning more than 40 countries to help get groceries to customers.
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Filaindiana.it shows users how crowded supermarkets are in different areas, this allows them to make a more informed decision on when to shop safely.
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The IT tech company ICIT provided the shop with an intelligent camera that follows how many people enter and leave the shop. If there are too many people inside, a red traffic light signals other people to wait outside.
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By entering details about your consumption of toilet paper - visits to the toilet per day, wipes per trip, your number of toilet paper rolls left and the number of people in the house - the toilet calculator will tell you how much toilet paper you need for your quarantine.
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