Amazon isn’t the only Seattle-area tech giant that wants to change how we pay for items at the grocery store. Microsoft’s business AI team is developing automated technology that tracks… Read More
Amazon continues to bring its new Whole Foods discounts across the nation. Starting this Wednesday, June 13, Whole Foods stores in 10 additional states — including Amazon’s home state of… Read More
Walmart is set to launch grocery delivery in the Seattle area as it continues to expand the new service across the nation and battle rivals like Amazon and Instacart. Walmart… Read More
Amazon is opening additional Amazon Go locations in Chicago and San Francisco as the company expands its cashier-less grocery store concept across the nation. The Seattle Times spotted job postings… Read More
News Brief: Amazon today expanded its Whole Foods grocery delivery service to three additional cities: Denver, Sacramento, and San Diego. The service, which debuted in February and is now available… Read More
A big battle is brewing over the delivery of milk, fruit and cheese, and how Americans will spend their hard-earned dollars on groceries. Walmart today unveiled an aggressive plan to… Read More
Smartphone in hand, I stood inside the Amazon Go store and turned the screen over to scan a unique QR code into the top of the waist-high interior gateway. With… Read More
Amazon Fresh is shutting down in neighborhoods in at least nine states across the U.S., Recode’s Jason Del Rey reports. Customers in parts of New York, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut,… Read More
In large neon letters a couple stories above street level in its Day 1 office tower in Seattle, Amazon’s message to all who can see it is, “HELLO WORLD.” Retailers… Read More
Whole Paycheck? Not anymore. Based on our research, “3/4 Paycheck” might be a better nickname for Whole Foods Market following Amazon’s initial price cuts. A team of GeekWire reporters surveyed… Read More
It’s been a good day for Amazon and its quest to acquire Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will not pursue further… Read More
Ahead of a battle the Amazon-Whole Foods grocery alliance, Walmart is growing its digital operation and its grocery division is as strong as its been in years. On Walmart’s quarterly… Read More
When Amazon announced its intention to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in June, it sent shockwaves through the grocery and delivery industries. Shares of grocery chains plummeted and speculation swirled… Read More
Whole Foods Market reported profits of $106 million for the quarter ended July 2, down more than 11 percent despite posting a record $3.7 billion in sales. The results today… Read More
A U.S. Congressman who serves as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee is calling for a hearing on Amazon.com’s proposed $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods, saying that… Read More
Amazon is creating a lot of unrest in the grocery world. The company has its fingers in many pots in a play for dominance in food retail. Amazon Go, a cashier-free… Read More
Blue Apron went public Wednesday, slicing its individual share price to $10 and bringing the meal-kit delivery company’s market value to $1.89 billion. When Blue Apron first announced plans for an… Read More
It seems meal-kit delivery company Blue Apron bit off more than it could chew in planning the share price for its upcoming initial public offering. In a Securities and Exchange… Read More
Last September, when Whole Foods opened a new high-tech “365 by Whole Foods Market” in Bellevue, Wash., I visited to see what all the fuss could be about when it… Read More
Amazon launched its new AmazonFresh Pickup grocery service for Amazon Prime members at two Seattle locations this morning, and GeekWire jumped at the opportunity to be the first people outside of the company’s own employees to… Read More
Amazon’s grocery ambitions led it to consider a purchase of struggling health food grocer Whole Foods last year, before ultimately passing without making a bid, according to a report from… Read More
Beer and wine could be on the shelves when Amazon Go opens to the public in the next few months. A spokesman for the e-commerce giant confirmed to GeekWire that… Read More
Amazon this morning unveiled its first convenience store, a high-tech retail location called “Amazon Go,” currently in a private beta testing in Seattle and scheduled to open to the public early next… Read More
First there were supermarket shelves. Then barcode scanners, then self-checkout lines, then online shopping. Amazon’s move to take the grocery checkout counter completely out of the loop is the latest… Read More
Amazon just unveiled details of a new brick-and-mortar convenience store that will let shoppers pick up items off the shelves and leave without standing in line to pay. The new… Read More
Amazon’s grocery stores under construction in its hometown are just the start of a much larger vision. That’s the word from Business Insider, which says it has viewed internal Amazon documents outlining a plan to… Read More
Amazon is remodeling the former Sears store at the Starbucks headquarters in Seattle with 40,000-square-feet of distribution space, a public retail lobby, and an outdoor canopy strikingly similar to the one going up at Amazon’s future… Read More
Look out, 7-Eleven: Amazon’s push into brick-and-mortar retail is getting serious. The e-commerce giant is considering building its own convenience stores to sell perishable items such as produce, milk and meat, according to a Wall Street… Read More
Workers were busy Saturday morning at Amazon’s future drive-up grocery store in Seattle, working a weekend shift before the rains came later in the day, and looking very much like… Read More
Amazon is, in fact, behind a drive-up grocery store under construction in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, new permitting information filed with the city shows. GeekWire reported in August on the plans for the… Read More