If remote first, what is second? Remote first seems like an odd way to label what they are describing. It sounds like they want to be fully distributed but are claiming remote first as a hedge in case they want offices in the future. Just commit to fully distributed.
Distributed is fine. Remote too. But what's wrong with lots of towns in the 50-100k inhabitants range? If you have multiple employees maybe even a whole team of 10-20 in that town then commutes would be good enough to warrant a small co-working type space that would make use of in person benefits while not incurring commute or living arrangement sacrifices.
It sounds like you want them to ban working from an office? If a bunch of employees working in the same region want to work in an office, why stop them?
Truecaller is the easiest way to access this data for consumers. https://www.truecaller.com/. The two commercial data providers for this are Telesign and Neustar.
This test has not been FDA approved and only has an Emergency Use Authorization which does not test the efficacy as an FDA approval would. Even the linked article says "this test has not been FDA cleared or approved."
The only broad way to do this is to verify identity documents, usually passports. The industry term is documentary verification. Jumio is one company that has been in this business for awhile. If you have checked in for an international flight at a kiosk by scanning your passport, you were verified by Jumio. If you put your passport to a webcam to verify your Airbnb profile, it was Jumio.
Here are more details about how documentary verification works, https://blog.cognitohq.com/documentary-and-non-documentary-i.... As a disclaimer, my company does NOT offer documentary verification but we do recommend various services to companies that need more than US verifications.
I used the link you posed to find your app in Google Play. Like the others who left reviews in Google Play, I don't want this tied to either LinkedIn or Facebook. Since you collect phone number, why not use Cognito to verify users?
Yeah this is a deal breaker for me too. Phone number is also no good. If you want to target people who value privacy, offering email and password signup is really a bare minimum.
Also, I do online shopping on my desktop browser much more often than I do on my phone, so the lack of a web app and web extension makes the app much less usable for me.
Two Dollar General stores separated by a mile popped up in my hometown in northern California, a place that can barely support two of any stores even grocery stores. Dollar General stores are expensive and nearly always empty. When I lived in the south eight years ago, Dollar General stores were expensive and empty too. I would not be surprised at some point if the economics of their expansion didn't make sense.
As someone else mentioned, Dollar Tree is different. There is a Dollar Tree that is always packed next to an empty Dollar General in my hometown. Dollar Tree is a deep discount store. Dollar General is a convenience store without gas.
Dollar General is like Krispy Kreme was year ago. They are in hyper growth building stores everywhere. Stores like what you describe get lost in the growth.
If the company is successful, it will know that and it will purge the lousy stores. Otherwise, they’ll implode when the interest rates go up and they can’t borrow money anymore.
Interest rates are the last thing Dollar General needs to worry about at this point.
$1.2 billion in profit on $22 billion in sales. They have $2.6 billion in long-term debt, paying ~$100m in annual interest on their total debt.
They could afford a 15% interest rate on their debt.
With their income, they have no need to borrow to build out stores. Their dividend is modest, so that's also no concern vs their need to spend to build.
Dollar General is a refinement of Ray Kroc’s McDonalds model for passive investors. Their magic is net leasing in shitty areas with barebones stores, so they don’t hold many obligations on their balance sheet, and don’t spend a lot on building upkeep and taxes. It is basically a ground lease and a bond alternative.
That works because it’s an investment that lets passive investors yield 5-7%, which is a good yield from a company with a good credit rating.
As rates rise, it gets less and less attractive, especially as leases start maturing, growth slows, and you need to put capital dollars into cheap buildings that you don’t own. It’s not a bad company, but it’s no Walmart.
Earlier this year on vacation in Florida I recalled seeing a Dollar General right behind a Dollar Tree in Haines City. The Dollar General is closed and property for sale. The Dollar Tree was open. Both are across the street from Walmart.
If they are using that information for a background check, they would have to inform you by law. I could see them using it for identity verification, but they should be much more transparent about that.
