Chief Executive Patrick Doyle, speaking to analysts in a conference call last week, said such savings are showing up now that mobile and online orders combined have reached a "critical mass" of more than a third of total sales.

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After the analysis of data collected by the city but never combined and analyzed, they were issuing vacate orders on more than 70 percent of the buildings they inspected.

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