There’s going to be a lot of chatter about and with voice-activated assistants in Best Buy stores thanks to new Amazon Alexa and Google Home experiences that the retailer will soon… Read More
While Seattle-based Nordstrom works to maintain its place in the increasingly internet-focused world of retail, the 116-year-old department store chain is bringing a tech focus to its latest in-store Pop-In… Read More
It’s been another rough year in the brick-and-mortar retail world, as retailers of all sizes search for answers to deal with Amazon’s online retail disruption and its burgeoning portfolio of physical… Read More
As investors continue to speculate about a potential rival bidder to Amazon’s $13.7 billion price for Whole Foods Market, Reuters reports that Walmart is not in the running to scoop… 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’s deal to acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 billion is sending far-reaching ripples across Wall Street, well beyond the grocery industry, affecting other Seattle tech companies. RELATED: Amazon to buy… Read More
Amazon will acquire Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion, marking the Seattle-based tech giant’s most ambitious expansion yet into brick-and-mortar retail. RELATED: Wall Street and Twitter react to Amazon’s blockbuster… Read More
All of those cardboard boxes from Amazon have eBay dreaming of a more colorful shopping world. And now the online marketplace is taking aim at the Seattle-based e-commerce giant with… Read More
Pop culture geeks who love a good trip to the mall will have a new destination come Friday, when ThinkGeek opens at the Tacoma Mall. It’s the second Puget Sound… Read More
The European Commission has decided that terms offered up by Amazon sufficiently address concerns raised in a 2015 antitrust investigation over contracts between the Seattle retailer and e-book publishers. The European… Read More
This is what it looks like when a coffee giant thinks big. Starbucks announced this week that it will build another of its high-end Reserve Roastery locations on one of the… Read More
As Apple builds out a new store in Seattle’s University Village Mall, the company is gearing up to revamp its top stores around the world. Angela Ahrendts, Apple’s senior vice… Read More
The hard times independent booksellers have fallen on over the last decade can probably be traced back to Seattle. This is, after all, home to Amazon which got its start… Read More
Amazon has a snazzy new idea for cutting the cost of making clothes. The Seattle e-commerce juggernaut just won a patent for “on-demand apparel manufacturing,” in which machines only start snipping… Read More
Walmart is reportedly in the final stages of negotiations to acquire Bonobos, an online fashion retailer aimed at helping men find clothes that fit well. According to Recode, a deal… Read More
It’s not an easy time to be in the e-commerce business. Tech titans, like Amazon and Walmart, are able to devote far more resources to their digital products than smaller… Read More
For the past six years, brothers Yevgeniy and Boris Mordkovich have been slowly building out Evelo, an online retailer of electric bicycles. Convincing customers to shell out $2,000 for an… Read More
You’d be hard-pressed to find a marketplace more analog than fishermen selling seafood straight from the dock at the crack of dawn. Coastline Market sees that as a big opportunity. The… Read More
There is a huge construction pit in the middle of the upscale University Village mall in Seattle, and no one seems exactly sure what’s happening there. So we did some… Read More
Despite reporting a staggering $481.3 billion in net sales last year, Walmart’s value still doesn’t even come close to Seattle e-commerce giant Amazon. Amazon’s stock exceeded $900 per share for… Read More
Amazon is exploring the possibility of new retail outlets in categories including furniture, home appliances and electronics, according to a New York Times report, which cites unnamed people familiar with the company’s… Read More
Funko, makers of pop culture figurines and much more, is growing so rapidly that it needs more space for its headquarters in Everett, Wash. With its move to a historic building… Read More
Amazon is opening another brick-and-mortar bookstore in 2017 — its 10th such retail location — in downtown Bellevue, Wash. Building permits, first uncovered by Recode, give the address as 104… Read More
ThinkGeek fans who prefer not to brave the traffic and head north to Seattle hit up one of their favorite stores will soon be able to do their shopping at… Read More
Amazon has picked the next location for another of its brick-and-mortar bookstores. Amazon Books is coming to Walnut Creek, Calif., according to a report in the East Bay Times, which says the… Read More
PCC Natural Markets is teaming with Instacart to get in on the curbside-pickup game that appears to be the next trend in how busy shoppers get their groceries. The community-owned chain of… Read More
Amazon is a tough rival to beat at its own game — so Walmart is trying a different tactic. Effective today, Walmart is ending ShippingPass, a $50 per year membership… Read More
Coffee news is big news in a city like Seattle. But the story on Monday originated further down the coast, as a San Francisco company by the name of Cafe… Read More
Amazon’s appetite for disrupting retail appears as if it will never be sated. In the past two years, we’ve seen them launch bookstores, add a restaurant delivery service, integrate shopping… Read More
Nordstrom continues to shuffle the ranks of it top leaders as it looks for new ways to attract and engage with customers in an increasingly digital retail world. On Monday,… Read More