Amazon HQ is getting a new store: Inside the tech giant’s new ‘4-star’ shop in its hometown The windows outside the ground floor of Amazon’s new re:Invent tower in Seattle are carefully blocked, shielding the bustling activity… Read More
Lawsuit ruling over dog leash purchased on Amazon could greatly impact third-party seller business A lawsuit brought by a woman who was blinded by a retractable dog leash she bought on Amazon could have… Read More
Amazon warehouse workers plan Prime Day strike as company’s scale comes under scrutiny Amazon workers are planning to strike during a major shopping holiday in the latest headache for a company that has… Read More
Challenging Amazon, Walmart unveils one-day delivery on more than 200k items Amazon put the retail world on notice when it announced plans to evolve its core Prime shipping time from two… Read More
Kohl’s to accept Amazon returns at all its stores, expanding partnership between retailers Amazon’s unlikely alliance with Kohl’s is getting even tighter. Starting in July, Kohl’s will begin accepting returns for items purchased… Read More
Jeff Bezos challenges retail giants to match (or beat!) Amazon’s $15/hour minimum wage and benefits Amazon last fall raised its minimum wage to $15/hour for its U.S. workers, after facing pressure from Sen. Bernie Sanders… Read More
Jeff Bezos uses annual Amazon letter as antitrust antidote: ‘Third-party sellers are kicking our first party butt. Badly.’ Amazon is getting trounced by third-party sellers on its platform, has weathered some spectacular failures in the process of building… Read More
Amazon Go stores to accept cash as legislators go after cashless retail Amazon is responding to growing criticism of retailers that don’t accept cash, which advocates for the poor say is a… Read More
Internal memos: Nordstrom tech execs leaving, CTO plans reorg in retailer’s latest digital shakeup A pair of Nordstrom technology executives are leaving the company, and the chief technology officer plans to reorganize the retailer’s… Read More
Target’s digital sales grew 10X faster than in-store sales in 2018, as retailer adjusts to battle Amazon Target spent much of 2018 turning some of its biggest stores into mini-warehouses for shipping and pickup online orders and… Read More
As Amazon mulls grocery expansion, work resumes at big Seattle retail space long linked to tech giant Construction has restarted inside a prime Seattle retail space that has for years been connected to Amazon, according to city… Read More
Bulletproof Coffee bringing its food and beverage lineup to thousands of retail locations across U.S. Bulletproof 360, Inc., makers of the signature Bulletproof Coffee and a host of other food and beverage products under its… Read More
Geek of the Week: Amazon vet Jill Taplin applies lessons from tech giant at her tiny comic book shop In the city where an online bookseller turned into a global tech giant, Jill Haick Taplin is trying to take some… Read More
Report: Amazon to open new grocery stores with dozens of locations, separate from Whole Foods Amazon’s brick-and-mortar grocery ambitions don’t stop with Whole Foods and Amazon Go. The company plans to launch dozens of grocery… Read More
Funko goes Hollywood: Pop! figurine maker to open Los Angeles store, its 2nd overall Later this year, Funko, the Everett, Wash. maker of pop culture collectables will open its second-ever retail store in Los… Read More
Billion-dollar sneaker startup Allbirds to open store in Seattle as it expands brick-and-mortar footprint Allbirds is landing in Seattle. The high-flying billion-dollar sneaker startup is set to open its fourth brick-and-mortar retail location in… Read More
Microsoft spotlights efforts to help retailers modernize and compete with Amazon LAS VEGAS — Microsoft isn’t as visible as Google or Amazon at CES this year, choosing to mostly lay low… Read More
Is this the future of retail? We checked out the new high-tech store from Microsoft and Kroger REDMOND, Wash. ― Attention shoppers, new technology on aisle seven. There were no audible announcements like that Monday morning at… Read More
Microsoft and Kroger to challenge Amazon and Whole Foods with futuristic retail technology Can Microsoft and Kroger upgrade the grocery experience better than Amazon and Whole Foods can? That’s the unstated subplot in… Read More
Blake Nordstrom, co-president of Seattle-based retail chain, dies at 58 Blake Nordstrom, one of the leaders of the Seattle-based Nordstrom retail chain, died on Wednesday in Seattle at the age… Read More
Amazon’s year on the Go: Ninth store opens as customers and company embrace walk-out tech Amazon has been making a Go of its cashier-less convenience stores for nearly a year, since opening its first location… Read More
Amid reports of abandoned projects, Amazon says it’s still ‘excited’ about physical bookstores Amazon Books was the tech giant’s first take on brick-and-mortar retail, starting in Seattle in 2015 and setting off a… Read More
My kids sat in front of Amazon’s first-ever printed toy catalog: ‘Whoa! … Is everything in here free?’ Forty or so years after I did the same thing with a Sears holiday catalog, and about a month after… Read More
REI closing to #OptOutside again on Black Friday while pledging $1M to study benefits of outdoors While millions of shoppers rush indoors to their favorite stores in search of holiday deals the day after Thanksgiving, REI… Read More
Sears files for bankruptcy, vows to emerge leaner to compete in the age of Amazon and e-commerce Sears, the department store giant that has been referred to as the “Amazon of its time” by many, declared bankruptcy… Read More
Second Amazon Go store opens in Chicago, with a third on the way The second Amazon Go location opened in Chicago today, and a third is coming soon, showing that the tech giant… Read More
eBay CEO: ‘I want to get as far away from Amazon as I can’ and stand for something different Amazon and eBay have been battling it out in e-commerce for years — for both buyers and sellers — though… Read More
IoT experts: Automation will be good for retail, replacing ‘complete waste of time’ jobs with more productive work Many economists see automation as a major threat to jobs, but experts in the world of the Internet of Things… Read More
Amazon unveils new brick and mortar concept — Amazon 4-star — featuring highly rated items Amazon unveiled its newest brick and mortar store concept, Amazon 4-star, which stocks items with a rating above four stars… Read More
EU opens antitrust probe into Amazon over how the retailer uses data from smaller sellers The European Union is looking into how Amazon handles data from smaller sellers in its marketplace. Regulators want to find out… Read More
