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Amazon opening new Fresh grocery store in Seattle as part of property developed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan

Amazon will open its second Amazon Fresh grocery store in the Seattle area next week with a location in the… Read More

Amazon brings cashierless tech to full-size grocery store for first time at new Seattle-area location

Amazon’s newest physical grocery store opening in the Seattle area this week is unique as it will feature the company’s… Read More

Amazon adding its palm-reading ID system as a payment option at Whole Foods store in Seattle

Amazon is bringing its palm-reading biometric identification system to a Whole Foods store in Seattle, the company announced Wednesday, expanding… Read More

‘We make our customers rich’: Shelf Engine raises $41M to help grocery giants manage their orders

New funding: Shelf Engine raised $41 million to support rapid growth of its tech platform used by grocers such as Kroger… Read More

Permits connect Amazon to former New Seasons site in Seattle in latest physical retail expansion

Amazon is named in electrical permits for improvements to the former New Seasons Market grocery store in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood,… Read More

Amazon will open another Amazon Go store in downtown Seattle at old Office Depot location

Amazon plans to open its seventh Amazon Go store location in Seattle, expanding its brick-and-mortar grocery footprint despite the ongoing… Read More

Amazon now offering one-hour curbside pickup for Prime shoppers at all Whole Foods locations

Amazon is now offering free, one-hour pickup of online grocery orders for Prime members at its Whole Foods stores across… Read More

Pay with your palm? Amazon unveils biometric ID, touting convenience and testing customer trust

Amazon has developed a new biometric ID system that works by scanning the palms of participating customers, planning to ultimately… Read More

Testing Amazon Kitchen: Here’s our hot take on the tech giant’s first hot food bar at Amazon Go Grocery

Amazon does deliveries, cloud computing, voice technology, and e-readers pretty damn well. The company’s hot food game, though, could use… Read More

Amazon opens new Go Grocery store in Microsoft’s neighborhood, as their retail tech rivalry grows

Amazon is opening its second Amazon Go Grocery store Wednesday, this one in Redmond, Wash., bringing its larger cashierless store… Read More

Amazon opens first Fresh grocery store, debuts high-tech shopping cart in retail expansion

Amazon is ready to open the doors to its latest physical retail experiment as it debuts the company’s first Amazon… Read More

Amazon vets behind smart shopping cart startup face a familiar foe — their former employer

With combined experience of nearly two decades at Amazon, startup founders Shariq Siddiqui and Umer Sadiq remain big believers in… Read More

Amazon unveils its own smart grocery cart, in new effort to automate physical retail checkout

Can the company that popularized the online shopping cart reinvent the real thing? Amazon unveiled its first smart grocery cart… Read More

Testing MilkRun: Portland’s farm-to-doorstep grocery delivery service launches in Seattle

The coronavirus pandemic is rapidly changing consumers’ grocery shopping habits and creating a big opportunity for startups like MilkRun. Demand… Read More

Uber vs. Amazon and Instacart: $2.65B Postmates deal shows appetite for broader delivery market

With its $2.65 billion deal to buy Postmates, announced Monday morning, Uber is making it clear that it’s hungry for… Read More

Amazon Go Grocery stores slated for Seattle area and Washington D.C., expanding retail footprint

Amazon is planning to open cashier-less “Go” grocery stores in Redmond, Wash., and Washington D.C., as part of a broader… Read More

Instacart sues Seattle over law requiring premium pay to drivers during the pandemic

The Seattle City Council is once again embroiled in a legal dispute with a gig economy company over efforts to… Read More

Revolution Agriculture reimagines the food supply chain with urban ‘farmlets’ in backyards

The vulnerabilities of a long food supply chain have been laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic as people across the… Read More

This startup is taking on Instacart by helping gig workers launch grocery delivery businesses

The coronavirus pandemic has made grocery and food delivery workers essential while exposing the inequities and shortfalls of an on-demand… Read More

Amazon CEO claims grocery delivery cuts carbon emissions by 43% compared to traditional shopping

Amid an annual letter dominated by the coronavirus crisis, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a bold claim about sustainable shopping… Read More

As local farmers embrace technology, coronavirus crisis could change our relationship to food forever

Alex Johnstone and David Rothstein dreamed of changing the world through food. They started with pastries. Then the coronavirus hit.… Read More

Here’s what Amazon is doing to increase capacity for surging online grocery demand orders

Amazon is putting new online grocery customers on a waitlist and is reducing hours at some physical Whole Foods stores… Read More

COVID-19 crisis sparks ‘inflection point’ for online grocery — and huge revenue for Amazon

More people are ordering groceries online due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, leading to a permanent consumer purchasing shift —… Read More

Amazon starts selling Amazon Go technology to other businesses

Amazon today unveiled a new business line, selling its “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology to other retailers. Amazon originally developed… Read More

Price analysis shows Amazon Go Grocery is already undercutting nearby retail rival

Amazon made headlines Tuesday with the debut of its newest cashierless grocery store concept in Seattle. The opening drew hundreds… Read More

Seattle’s Kyler Martz turns to Glowforge tech for big octopus project — big tech turns to him for more art

From the small studio behind his home in Seattle, artist Kyler Martz dreams up fantastical versions of assorted critters and… Read More

Amazon’s secretive new Seattle store reportedly part of push to expand ‘Go’ tech to bigger locations

After four years of silence, Amazon confirmed last month that the “Amazon Go team is running internal tests” at a… Read More

Walmart vs. Amazon in the produce aisle: New ‘open market’ format takes cues from Whole Foods

Walmart said Wednesday morning that it will roll out redesigned produce sections in the grocery areas of its U.S. stores,… Read More

Amazon to open its ‘first grocery store,’ with new format separate from Whole Foods and Amazon Go

Amazon ratcheted up its ambitions in the grocery business again on Monday, confirming plans for a new grocery format set… Read More

Amazon confirms its Amazon Go team is ‘running internal tests’ at secretive retail store in Seattle

Amazon finally revealed that it is working on a grocery concept at a prime retail location in Seattle’s popular Capitol… Read More