Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. has donated four electric vehicles to be used at University of Hawaii campuses, the UH Foundation announced Monday.
The four Smart Fortwo Electric Drive vehicles are valued at about $45,000. The vehicles will be used at the UH-Manoa, West Oahu, Hilo and Maui College campuses. UH said the vehicles will be used to educate students and to transport faculty and staff to meetings.
“We are committed to become net zero by 2035 and part of that involves transportation, so this is a great way to help us,” UH President David Lassner said in a news release.
Online deals expand beyond Cyber Monday
NEW YORK >> The Monday after Thanksgiving is still a time when millions of Americans check out online deals and check off items from their gift list — but a one-day Cyber Monday frenzy appears to be going the way of the dial-up modem.
Shoppers who have high-speed connections at home and on their phones are pouncing on deals that stores are spreading out over several days, leaving the so-called Cyber Monday online shopping bonanza in danger of losing its title as the top online sales day.
Instead of door-buster markdowns on a select few products, retailers are shifting to a stream of discounts and alerts during the entire week via email and social media.
Cartwheel, Target’s digital app, started offering holiday deals Nov. 1; Amazon, on Nov. 16; and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. kicked off its Cyber Monday deals on Friday for the first time as it aimed to grab customers ahead of its competitors.
But Cyber Monday still packs the biggest punch in terms of a single online shopping day — for now. Sales for this Cyber Monday are expected to total $3.36 billion, up 9.4 percent from a year ago, according to Adobe Digital Insights, which tracks online retail transactions.
ON THE MOVE
The Queen’s Health Systems has named the following employees:
>> Ryan Freitas as director of information technology infrastructure and operations. He was previously director of network reliability for Hawaiian Telcom, where he worked for the past 16 years.
>> Susan Gray as director of system strategic workforce planning and talent acquisition. She was previously a director of workforce management for Palomar Health, in California, which is where she served for 10 years.
