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Amazon gobbling up Whole Foods has Blue Apron eating humble pie as food delivery company chops IPO price

It seems meal-kit delivery company Blue Apron bit off more than it could chew in planning the share price for… Read More

365 by Whole Foods Market

365 by Whole Foods looked like the store of the future — then Amazon and the future stepped in

Last September, when Whole Foods opened a new high-tech “365 by Whole Foods Market” in Bellevue, Wash., I visited to… Read More

We tried the new AmazonFresh Pickup service in Seattle, and this is what happened

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… Read More

Report: Amazon considered buying Whole Foods last year before new investor came on board

Amazon’s grocery ambitions led it to consider a purchase of struggling health food grocer Whole Foods last year, before ultimately… Read More

Amazon applies to sell beer and wine at Amazon Go store, and liquor at Ballard drive-up

Beer and wine could be on the shelves when Amazon Go opens to the public in the next few months.… Read More

How ‘Amazon Go’ works: The technology behind the online retailer’s groundbreaking new grocery store

Amazon this morning unveiled its first convenience store, a high-tech retail location called “Amazon Go,” currently in a private beta testing in… Read More

Grocery cart

The end of grocery checkers? Amazon’s high-tech store points to the future of physical retail

First there were supermarket shelves. Then barcode scanners, then self-checkout lines, then online shopping. Amazon’s move to take the grocery… Read More

Amazon to open first ‘self-driving’ grocery store, with no checkout lines, in Seattle in early 2017

Amazon just unveiled details of a new brick-and-mortar convenience store that will let shoppers pick up items off the shelves… Read More

Amazon sees potential for up to 2,000 grocery stores in U.S. over next decade, report says

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,… Read More

A second Amazon drive-up store in Seattle? Filings link tech giant to mystery project at Starbucks HQ

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… Read More

Amazon eyes its own convenience stores in addition to drive-up grocery sites, WSJ reports

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… Read More

Amazon’s secretive drive-up grocery store takes shape in Seattle neighborhood

Workers were busy Saturday morning at Amazon’s future drive-up grocery store in Seattle, working a weekend shift before the rains… Read More

Yes, Amazon is behind that drive-up grocery store coming to Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood

Amazon is, in fact, behind a drive-up grocery store under construction in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, new permitting information filed with the… Read More

365 by Whole Foods Market

Can Whole Foods keep pace with innovation? Inside the grocery chain’s new high-tech ‘365’ store

Wandering aimlessly around the supermarket appears to be a thing of the past. Retailers are increasingly catering to people who either don’t want… Read More

Amazon goes nuts with latest expansion of its private-label foods

Amazon is now selling nuts and trail mix under the Happy Belly brand, its private label for perishables. Previously on… Read More

Walmart partners with Uber and Lyft for grocery delivery as it battles Amazon

Walmart wants to deliver groceries to your door and the grocery giant is getting some help from Uber and Lyft. The… Read More

Instacart raises prices by 50%, lays off 12 employees

Instacart is raising its prices and laying off employees. The grocery delivery company laid off 12 recruiters this month, Recode reported.… Read More

Instacart confirms $220M investment for one-hour grocery delivery service

Instacart today officially announced that it has closed a $220 million Series C round, pushing total funding past $275 million… Read More

Fast-growing grocery delivery startup Instacart reportedly raising $220M

Instacart, the grocery delivery service led by former Amazon.com engineer Apoorva Mehta, is raising $220 million in a huge financing… Read More

Instacart inks deal with Whole Foods for in-store pick-up, speedier grocery delivery

Instacart has struck a formal partnership with Whole Foods Market, one which will allow for grocery delivery in less than… Read More

Uber takes on Amazon, Instacart with new drug store delivery service in D.C.

Need some deodorant? Run out of contact lens solution? Uber has you covered. The transportation startup is testing out a new… Read More

Whole Foods is turning overripe produce into fertilizer with this geeky machine

Just when you thought Whole Foods couldn’t get any more green, well, now the organic grocery store is. The Austin-based market announced today that… Read More

AmazonFresh: Seattle keeps its ‘Big Radish’ status, for now

One of the perks of living in Amazon’s hometown is the chance to try some of the company’s new services… Read More

Still recovering from ‘painful’ Webvan deal, Sequoia bets again on grocery delivery with $8.5M Instacart investment

You know what they say about history: “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” Well, let’s hope that Sequoia… Read More

Report: Amazon taking grocery delivery to LA and San Francisco

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos was optimistic about the progress of Amazon Fresh at the company shareholder meeting last month, and… Read More

Ripe for expansion? The Amazon Fresh grocery experience, 5 years later

Amazon has been delivering groceries in the Seattle region for more than five years through its Amazon Fresh service, and… Read More

Amazon Fresh expansion? Company sidesteps question on refrigeration rollout

Is Amazon.com getting ready to expand its Amazon Fresh to new markets? During the company’s earnings conference call this afternoon,… Read More

Amazon patents the milkman

Amazon.com this week won a broad patent on technology that lets customers schedule product deliveries to their doorsteps or mailboxes… Read More

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