Identifying Local Opportunities

1. Lucky's Market Among Florida Stores to Close Feb. 12
https://www.gainesville.com/news/20200121/luckyrsquos-market-among-florida-stores-to-close-feb-12
This is article is basically stating that Lucky's will be closing on February 12th. Lucky's is a unique grocery store that is located a little north of UF's campus off of 13th street. Many Lucky's Markets all over the country will also be closing. The general manager of the company did not comment much as to why they were closing, but one can assume that it had to be that they were not making as many profits as they had hoped. Anyone who was involved with Lucky's at all is involved with this problem. Whether it was someone who was high up in the company, someone who was just a cashier, or someone who went to Lucky's often. It will no longer be there and a lot of people will be out of jobs.

2. New Food Market and Starbucks to Open in Norman Hall Monday
https://www.alligator.org/news/new-food-market-and-starbucks-to-open-in-norman-hall/article_34fe1914-43d9-11ea-a457-fb58aac8f509.html
This is very simple article to summarize because the summary is basically the title of the article. A new food market and Starbucks will be open in Norman Hall. This may not seem like a problem to anyone, but it definitely affects local food vendors or coffee shops that are not part of the UF campus as some of their customers may be taken away because of these. It will also make Norman Hall a lot busier so it may be a problem for students just trying to study in there.

3. UF's Sailing Team Equipment Damaged by High Winds
https://www.alligator.org/news/uf-sailing-team-s-equipment-damaged-by-high-winds/article_dbe2b252-42d6-11ea-ba7b-6741d053fad8.html
Lake Wauburg's north shore and most of the UF sailing team's equipment suffered damages from very high winds in December. It set the sailing team back quite a bit, but they raised money on a gofundme and are still hoping to do well and make sailing for this season of sailing. The problem is that a lot of their equipment was damaged and it is a lot harder to train now. This problem affects Lake Wauburg as some of its shored were damaged and it affects the UF sailing team as a lot of their equipment was damaged.

4. Local Vape Shops Lose Profits Due to Recent Tobacco Law
https://www.alligator.org/news/local-vape-shops-lose-profits-due-to-recent-tobacco-law/article_6033000a-42d4-11ea-bd9f-4f3ed2b963e4.html
The legal age to buy tobacco and electronic cigarettes was recently change from 18 to 21. Alachua County was one of the first to do this and it is hitting vape shops hard. The article says that before the law was made about 30% of their sales came from people who were 18-20 years old so they lost a lot of sales. The people who have the problem are the owners of the smoke shops because they cannot sell to certain people anymore and people who are 18-20 because they cannot buy tobacco or ecigs anymore.

5. GPD Continues Use of Highly-Criticized Facial Recognition Program
https://www.alligator.org/news/gpd-continues-use-of-highly-criticized-facial-recognition-program/article_fda52c94-424a-11ea-a379-5f6e784062d8.html
GPD is now using a system of facial recognition to try to help combat crime. They are receiving a lot of criticism because people belief it is infringing upon their privacy. The people who have the problem are GPD because they are receiving a lot of backlash and also criminals because the facial recognition will help identify them.