Note 26:       Related parties

Tony Isaac, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, is the father of Jon Isaac, President and Chief Executive Officer of Live Ventures Incorporated and managing member of Isaac Capital Group LLC, a 15% shareholder of the Company. Tony Isaac, Chief Executive Officer, Virland Johnson, Chief Financial Officer, Richard Butler, Board of Directors member, and Dennis Gao, Board of Directors member of the Company, are Board of Directors member, Chief Financial Officer, Board of Directors member, and Board of Directors members of, respectively, Live Ventures Incorporated. The Company also shares certain executive and legal services with Live Ventures Incorporated. The total services shared were $211 and $30 for fiscal years ending December 29, 2018 and December 30, 2017, respectively. Customer Connexx rents approximately 9,879 square feet of office space from Live Ventures Incorporated at its Las Vegas, NV office. The total rent and common area expense were $174 and $213 for fiscal years ending December 29, 2018 and December 30, 2017, respectively.

On December 30, 2017, ApplianceSmart Holdings LLC (the “Purchaser”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Live Ventures Incorporated, entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”) with the Company and ApplianceSmart, Inc. (“ApplianceSmart”), a subsidiary of the Company. ApplianceSmart is a chain specializing in new and out-of-the-box appliances. Pursuant to the Agreement, the Purchaser purchased from the Company all the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock (the “Stock”) of ApplianceSmart in exchange for $6,500 (the “Purchase Price”). Effective April 1, 2018, the Purchaser issued the Company a promissory note (the “ApplianceSmart Note”) with a three-year term in the original principal amount of $3,919,494 for the balance of the purchase price. ApplianceSmart is guaranteeing the repayment of the ApplianceSmart Note. On December 26, 2018, the ApplianceSmart Note was amended and restated to grant ARCA a security interest in the assets of the Purchaser, ApplianceSmart, and ApplianceSmart Contracting Inc. in exchange for modifying the repayment terms to provide for the payment in full of all accrued interest and principal on April 1, 2021, the maturity date of the ApplianceSmart Note. On March 15, 2019, the Company entered into subordination agreements with third parties pursuant to which it agreed to subordinate the payment of indebtedness under the ApplianceSmart Note and the Company’s security interest in the assets of ApplianceSmart and other related parties in exchange for up to $1,200,000 payable within 15days of the agreement. In connection with the sale to the Purchaser, ApplianceSmart Inc. incurred $270 of transition fee expense for fiscal year 2018.

In the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on September 18, 2018 (the “Proxy Statement”), under the caption “Transactions with Related Parties” the Company disclosed that Tony Isaac, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, was the sole stockholder and owner of Negotiart of America, Inc. (“Negotiart of America”), a company that provided consulting services to the Company.  After the filing of the Proxy Statement, it was determined that this was an error and that the foregoing disclosure was incorrect and that Negotiart of America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Negotiart, Inc., a Canadian corporation.

Timothy Matula was granted 560,000 shares of common stock at a market price of $0.64 per share for services to be provided over the period of August 10, 2018 through February 9, 2020 on August 10, 2018. Timothy Matula was formerly a director of the Company.