Citing new ordinances recently passed in Seattle that aim to help gig workers, the Target-owned delivery service Shipt informed customers this week that it will pause operations in the city starting Jan.… Read More
Updated at 12:30 p.m. Pacific. Tuesday. Amazon will offer prescription medications for home delivery through a new online drugstore, promising Prime members free two-day delivery and discounts of as much… Read More
In between parades, football games and huge meals, people turned to their phones in record numbers to shop holiday deals on Thanksgiving. E-commerce spending hit a record $4.2 billion on… Read More
Target’s investments in new delivery and pickup initiatives to counter Amazon’s growing logistics operation are paying off, as they accounted for 80 percent of the company’s e-commerce’s sales growth in… 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
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
Amazon says it will offer free holiday shipping to all of its customers on hundreds of millions of items, a potentially costly competitive move designed to keep pace with similar… Read More
Target had its best non-holiday digital sales day ever in July, and the retailer might have its rival Amazon to thank. Target’s one-day sale on July 17 “blew away” company… Read More
Target is one of Google Cloud’s newest big customers, furthering a trend of major retailers opting to join up with Amazon Web Services’ cloud rivals as they do battle with… Read More
Amazon Prime Day has surpassed Black Friday as the tech giant’s biggest shopping event of the year, but by creating a new shopping holiday out of thin air, Amazon is… Read More
Amazon’s rapidly growing brick-and-mortar footprint — including a second Amazon Go store opening in Seattle this fall — has already surpassed Costco’s U.S. store count, but it has a long… Read More
One year ago, Amazon agreed to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, sending shockwaves through a grocery industry suddenly faced with competing against the world’s second most valuable tech company… Read More
Microsoft Teams is now being used by 200,000 organizations in 181 markets around the world, up four-fold since the tech giant’s workplace chat and collaboration technology launched one year ago… Read More
Whole Foods could be just the beginning of Amazon’s physical retail ambitions. Gene Munster, co-founder of Loup Ventures and a former Piper Jaffray analyst who is well known after predicting… Read More
Target today announced that it plans to acquire Shipt, an Alabama-based same-day delivery platform, for $550 million in cash. The deal will allow Target to offer same-day delivery to customers at about… Read More
To fully appreciate the way online shopping is transforming the economy, look at how much Amazon spends to put packages on doorsteps around the world. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant has shelled… Read More
As Amazon continues to loom over the retail industry, some of the biggest stores in the world are pouring money into online retail, shipping logistics and other new programs to… Read More
Seahawks quarterback and Super Bowl Champion Russell Wilson has a lot of fans — and he wants a better way to connect with them. That’s one of the reasons Wilson founded… Read More
If you’re a chief information officer at a large or medium-size retailer that has embraced cloud computing while feeling the effects of Amazon’s rise, expect to get a call from… Read More
When Amazon so much as twitches in a new direction, Wall Street takes notice. If you’re an investor or executive at a company or even an industry targeted by the… Read More
If the Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods goes through, Amazon could become the top grocer in the U.S. by 2030, says Brittain Ladd, who worked on global expansion for the… Read More
About a month from now, a solar plant on a 260-acre site in North Carolina will open, and that will be a big deal for Starbucks. That’s because the company… Read More
Blueprint Registry, a Seattle-based startup that aims to simplify the gift registry process, has raised a little more than $1 million in seed funding. These funds are an extension of a… Read More
Seattle-based startup Blueprint Registry is one of 10 startups chosen to be part of the first Target + Techstars accelerator program. The 10 startups — chosen from more than 500… Read More
Updated at 8 a.m. Pacific with Target comment. Amazon filed suit Monday against a 16-year veteran of the company, Arthur Valdez, alleging that his new job as a high-ranking supply… Read More
Amazon is poised to shake-up retail once again by dramatically expanding its distribution network and speeding up delivery. To keep pace, competitors need logistics and fulfillment knowhow, and where better… Read More
Target’s website buckled under the pressure of holiday shoppers on Monday morning, crashing just as the company tried lure in business with a slew of Cyber Monday deals. The site first went down… Read More
Target has unleashed a number of new programs aimed at bringing its online and digital experiences up to speed with market leaders, like Amazon. For instance, this fall, it’s speeding up… Read More
Target is gearing up to launch a new program this fall that intends on speeding up shipping times that comes close to matching Amazon’s speed and reliability. Through a program called “available… Read More
Target is offering free shipping again this summer in time for back-to-school shopping season after it saw orders soar this holiday after running a similar promotion. The Minneapolis-based retailer said online purchases made… Read More