Artificial intelligence is coming to a grocery store shelf near you. Xnor.ai, a spin-out from Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, has been working with partners on low-cost, low-power AI… Read More
Walmart and Amazon are locked in a race to bring one-day shipping to the masses, and today Walmart hit a major milestone. The retail giant said its NextDay shipping program… Read More
The windows outside the ground floor of Amazon’s new re:Invent tower in Seattle are carefully blocked, shielding the bustling activity inside from public view. Stepping through multiple layers of black… Read More
A lawsuit brought by a woman who was blinded by a retractable dog leash she bought on Amazon could have far-reaching implications for the sale of third-party items on the… Read More
Amazon workers are planning to strike during a major shopping holiday in the latest headache for a company that has become a target in today’s political climate. The news: Employees… Read More
Amazon put the retail world on notice when it announced plans to evolve its core Prime shipping time from two days to one. Three weeks later, Walmart has responded. On… Read More
Amazon’s unlikely alliance with Kohl’s is getting even tighter. Starting in July, Kohl’s will begin accepting returns for items purchased on Amazon at all of its stores, more than 1,150… Read More
Amazon last fall raised its minimum wage to $15/hour for its U.S. workers, after facing pressure from Sen. Bernie Sanders and others to boost compensation in its fulfillment centers and… Read More
Amazon is getting trounced by third-party sellers on its platform, has weathered some spectacular failures in the process of building its business, and “remains a small player in global retail.”… Read More
Amazon is responding to growing criticism of retailers that don’t accept cash, which advocates for the poor say is a discriminatory practice. The tech giant confirmed plans to start accepting… Read More
A pair of Nordstrom technology executives are leaving the company, and the chief technology officer plans to reorganize the retailer’s digital division in the latest shakeup of the Seattle-based company’s… Read More
Target spent much of 2018 turning some of its biggest stores into mini-warehouses for shipping and pickup online orders and opening smaller neighborhood stores, a major reorganization of priorities as… Read More
Construction has restarted inside a prime Seattle retail space that has for years been connected to Amazon, according to city records and GeekWire’s observations of the site this week. The… Read More
Bulletproof 360, Inc., makers of the signature Bulletproof Coffee and a host of other food and beverage products under its lifestyle umbrella, is taking a bigger step onto the national… Read More
In the city where an online bookseller turned into a global tech giant, Jill Haick Taplin is trying to take some of the lessons she learned while working in publishing at… Read More
Amazon’s brick-and-mortar grocery ambitions don’t stop with Whole Foods and Amazon Go. The company plans to launch dozens of grocery stores across multiple large U.S. cities, according to a report from… Read More
Later this year, Funko, the Everett, Wash. maker of pop culture collectables will open its second-ever retail store in Los Angeles. RELATED: Inside Funko’s funkalicious new HQ Funko’s original store, a… Read More
Allbirds is landing in Seattle. The high-flying billion-dollar sneaker startup is set to open its fourth brick-and-mortar retail location in Seattle’s University Village shopping plaza. Allbirds logos and an “opening… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Microsoft isn’t as visible as Google or Amazon at CES this year, choosing to mostly lay low behind the scenes, schmooze with partners and hold small gatherings… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. ― Attention shoppers, new technology on aisle seven. There were no audible announcements like that Monday morning at the QFC grocery store in the Seattle suburbs but the… Read More
Can Microsoft and Kroger upgrade the grocery experience better than Amazon and Whole Foods can? That’s the unstated subplot in the news this morning that Microsoft and Kroger are testing… Read More
Blake Nordstrom, one of the leaders of the Seattle-based Nordstrom retail chain, died on Wednesday in Seattle at the age of 58. His passing comes less than a month after… Read More
Amazon has been making a Go of its cashier-less convenience stores for nearly a year, since opening its first location to the public in Seattle on Jan. 22. Tuesday the… Read More
Amazon Books was the tech giant’s first take on brick-and-mortar retail, starting in Seattle in 2015 and setting off a new era for a company that made its name as… Read More
Forty or so years after I did the same thing with a Sears holiday catalog, and about a month after that iconic retailer filed for bankruptcy, my own children —… Read More
While millions of shoppers rush indoors to their favorite stores in search of holiday deals the day after Thanksgiving, REI is once again choosing to #OptOutside by closing all 153… Read More
Sears, the department store giant that has been referred to as the “Amazon of its time” by many, declared bankruptcy Monday, the latest casualty of the changing retail landscape. A… Read More
The second Amazon Go location opened in Chicago today, and a third is coming soon, showing that the tech giant has targeted the Windy City as the second city for… Read More
Amazon and eBay have been battling it out in e-commerce for years — for both buyers and sellers — though eBay CEO Devin Wenig doesn’t see it that way. Speaking… Read More
Many economists see automation as a major threat to jobs, but experts in the world of the Internet of Things speaking at the GeekWire Summit leaned into the concept, saying… Read More