That's the number of cities for which apparel retailer American Apparel will soon offer one hour delivery, as the efulfillment wars continue on. Customers in those cities will be able to order on-line or via mobile and receive delivery in one hour or less for some 50 staple type items offered by American Apparel in 79 of its stores serving those markets. To accomplish this feat, American Apparel will use on-demand logistics provider Postmates to provide the service. The orders will actually be placed on Postmates apps, after which each order shows up on a tablet computer in the appropriate American Apparel store. Associates then pick and package each order, after which the Postmates picks up the order and delivers it to the customer. American Apparel has been a pioneer in the use of item-level RFID, and thus can leverage the resulting inventory accuracy to support this type of program. At launch, delivery fees will be $1.99, but Postmates is still determining what the cost for delivery will be after the initial few weeks of the offering. It will be more, we know that.

That's how old former Intel CEO Andy Grove was at the time of his death this week after a long and storied carrier in helping to build one of the world's greatest companies. We remember Grove especially for two reasons. First, the phrase “Only the Paranoid Survive,” title of his bestselling book and a mantra still common today in Silicon Valley and beyond. Even better, when an early Intel was struggling financially in the low margin memory trips business, he famously said to Intel founder Gordon Moore " If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?" Gordon answered without hesitation, "He would get us out of memories." To which Grove responded "Why shouldn't you and I walk out the door, come back, and do it ourselves?" That's just what they did and transformed Intel, using a thought process that may at times come in handy for all of us.