Social distancing and self-quarantine measures have impacted foot traffic at movie theaters, airports, restaurants, bars, grocery stores, warehouse stores and just about everywhere else during the coronavirus outbreak according to… Read More
Another chapter in Seattle’s storied literary and retail history is coming to a close on Saturday. Barnes & Noble is vacating its downtown location after 22 years, leaving the core… Read More
Diana Naramore is all smiles. Maybe it’s contagious, since she’s surrounded all day by so many Amazon packages with that familiar smile logo. Naramore is owner and CEO of Sip… Read More
Walmart’s e-commerce business grew 41 percent year-over-year in the third quarter, continuing the rapid rise of the division amid a retail battle with Amazon. Walmart doesn’t break out revenue from… Read More
Athletic retail giant Nike will stop selling its products on Amazon, ending a two-year pilot program. Nike had long avoided selling directly on Amazon, but in July 2017 it changed… Read More
There’s a whole cottage industry of startups eager to help retailers crack the e-commerce code. Two of those startups — Seattle-based Ideoclick and Replenium — just landed a total of… Read More
The Seattle area’s retail story is rich with history and innovation, whether it’s been written at Nordstrom for more than a century or inside a new cashierless Amazon Go store.… Read More
Amazon plans to make grocery delivery a built-in benefit of Prime membership — no longer charging an extra $15 per month, or $180 per year, for Amazon Fresh delivery on… Read More
Watch out for Purple near the University of Washington. No, not more of the color associated with the school and its Huskies, but rather the high-tech mattress maker. Purple is… Read More
Seattle startup Komposite is setting out to change the way we make clothes and has raised $500,000 to get off the ground. The new venture is led by Pablos Holman,… Read More
In the age of Amazon, and the get-what-you-want-now mentality of online shopping, there are certainly still plenty of people who seek out a brick-and-mortar retail experience. Stocking shelves and staffing… Read More
Months ago, long before President Donald Trump “hereby ordered” U.S. companies to find places other than China to make their goods, Seattle-based shoe and apparel company Brooks Running was already… 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
Alex Kummerow bought Julia Wills a soap-making kit back in 2011 as a gift, and the couple’s interest in creating natural skincare products was launched. Eight years later, the husband-and-wife… Read More
E-commerce heavyweight eBay is suing rival Amazon, alleging that managers at the Seattle tech giant conspired to poach e-commerce sellers through eBay’s own messaging platform. This is the second lawsuit… Read More
Online retailer Zulily has let go of an undisclosed number of employees as part of broader structural changes within the company, GeekWire has learned. A Zulily spokesperson confirmed the layoffs… Read More
Next year eBay will launch a new delivery service to speed up shipments between buyers and sellers on its e-commerce platform. The move makes eBay the latest e-commerce heavyweight to… Read More
Starbucks coffee to go will go even further early next year as the Seattle-based company is expanding its Starbucks Delivers experience throughout the U.S. as part of an agreement with… Read More
Starbucks’ commitment to technology-powered retail solutions took another step forward on Monday as the company announced it is teaming with Brightloom, the restaurant tech company formerly known as Eatsa. And… Read More
Stop the (French) presses. According to a report in the New York Post this week, Starbucks is going to stop selling The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and… Read More
Walmart has released its long-rumored set of low-cost tablets, the latest challenge in the retail giant’s multi-faceted battle with Amazon. Walmart’s tablets, which run on the Android operating system under… 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
Glossier, a direct-to-consumer beauty company that recently reached unicorn status after a $100 million investment, is coming direct to Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood with one of its signature pop-up locations.… 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
When Sam Cone arrived in Seattle from Eastern Europe more than 100 years ago, the young immigrant was alone and he didn’t speak English. So he began his entrepreneurial journey… Read More
Walmart today unveiled a new partnership with Google’s virtual assistant to let customers shop via voice command, the latest integration between the two companies as they both battle Amazon. Under… 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
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
Julep was flying high. Founded in 2007 as a physical retail concept, the Seattle startup quickly grew into a multi-channel online cosmetics brand, launching 300 new products each year. As… Read More