Articles about Target

Prime Day shows how AI is changing shopping, testing Amazon’s bet against ChatGPT and others

Adobe found that shoppers who reached retail sites through AI chatbots were 40% more likely to buy during Prime Day than those from search, email or social media — the first time AI-referred traffic converted best. Amazon has blocked rival shopping agents from its store while building its own assistant. Read More

Inside Microsoft’s Project Solara: A new platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps

A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows. The first two concept devices, a desktop hub and a wearable badge, are headed to pilots with some big-name businesses. Read More

Amazon earnings preview: Wall Street looks for cloud growth after capex surge and job cuts

Amazon reports Q4 earnings Thursday, capping a tech earnings season dominated by a single question: whether the industry’s AI spending binge will ultimately be worth it. Here’s what to watch. Read More

Same-day delivery service Shipt to pause Seattle operations, blaming recently passed labor laws

Citing new ordinances recently passed in Seattle that aim to help gig workers, the Target-owned delivery service Shipt informed customers this week… Read More

Amazon Pharmacy: Online drugstore and Prime Rx discounts extend tech giant’s reach into healthcare

Updated at 12:30 p.m. Pacific. Tuesday. Amazon will offer prescription medications for home delivery through a new online drugstore, promising… Read More

Holiday e-commerce spending already hitting records as Amazon and others gear up for peak shopping season

In between parades, football games and huge meals, people turned to their phones in record numbers to shop holiday deals… Read More

Target stock soars as delivery and pickup initiatives drive e-commerce growth, amid battle with Amazon

Target’s investments in new delivery and pickup initiatives to counter Amazon’s growing logistics operation are paying off, as they accounted… 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

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

Amazon to offer free holiday shipping, temporarily ending $25 minimum for non-Prime members

Amazon says it will offer free holiday shipping to all of its customers on hundreds of millions of items, a… Read More

Amazon bump? Target reports record online sales during its Prime Day rival event

Target had its best non-holiday digital sales day ever in July, and the retailer might have its rival Amazon to… Read More

Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors

Target is one of Google Cloud’s newest big customers, furthering a trend of major retailers opting to join up with… Read More

Primed for competition: Amazon’s manufactured shopping holiday is boosting its retail rivals

Amazon Prime Day has surpassed Black Friday as the tech giant’s biggest shopping event of the year, but by creating… Read More

How Amazon’s expanding U.S. brick-and-mortar footprint stacks up against other big retailers

Amazon’s rapidly growing brick-and-mortar footprint — including a second Amazon Go store opening in Seattle this fall — has already… Read More

Amazon-Whole Foods one year later: How tech is reshaping grocery, and how rivals are responding

One year ago, Amazon agreed to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, sending shockwaves through a grocery industry suddenly faced… Read More

Microsoft Teams ratchets up Slack challenge, claims 200k organizations as customers one year after launch

Microsoft Teams is now being used by 200,000 organizations in 181 markets around the world, up four-fold since the tech… Read More

Taking over the world? Amazon will buy Target in 2018, says analyst Gene Munster

Whole Foods could be just the beginning of Amazon’s physical retail ambitions. Gene Munster, co-founder of Loup Ventures and a… Read More

Target to buy same-day grocery delivery company Shipt for $550M as it battles Amazon

Target today announced that it plans to acquire Shipt, an Alabama-based same-day delivery platform, for $550 million in cash. The deal will… Read More

Amazon poised to spend a record $7B on shipping this holiday quarter

To fully appreciate the way online shopping is transforming the economy, look at how much Amazon spends to put packages on… Read More

Amazon rivals Walmart, Best Buy and Target boost spending on e-commerce and shipping to challenge Seattle tech giant

As Amazon continues to loom over the retail industry, some of the biggest stores in the world are pouring money… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Seahawks QB Russell Wilson’s startup TraceMe is picking its tech team

Seahawks quarterback and Super Bowl Champion Russell Wilson has a lot of fans — and he wants a better way to… Read More

Target reportedly checking out of Amazon Web Services as tech giant’s retail ambitions grow

If you’re a chief information officer at a large or medium-size retailer that has embraced cloud computing while feeling the… Read More

Amazon shreds stock values with a whiff of competition: 5 industries feeling the heat from the tech giant

When Amazon so much as twitches in a new direction, Wall Street takes notice. If you’re an investor or executive… Read More

Amazon will become top U.S. grocer by 2030, and Walmart should buy Costco to compete, former insider says

If the Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods goes through, Amazon could become the top grocer in the U.S. by 2030,… Read More

Starbucks continues renewable energy push with deals to use wind and solar energy to power stores

About a month from now, a solar plant on a 260-acre site in North Carolina will open, and that will… Read More

Blueprint Registry raises $1M to visualize and simplify gift registries

Blueprint Registry, a Seattle-based startup that aims to simplify the gift registry process, has raised a little more than $1 million… Read More

Seattle startup Blueprint Registry picked for Target + Techstars accelerator program

Seattle-based startup Blueprint Registry is one of 10 startups chosen to be part of the first Target + Techstars accelerator… Read More

Amazon sues longtime exec over new job at Target, says retail rival will be able to steal its secrets

Updated at 8 a.m. Pacific with Target comment. Amazon filed suit Monday against a 16-year veteran of the company, Arthur… Read More

Rivals try to keep pace with Amazon by hiring retailer’s logistics and fulfillment execs

Amazon is poised to shake-up retail once again by dramatically expanding its distribution network and speeding up delivery. To keep… Read More

Target’s website sputters on Cyber Monday

Target’s website buckled under the pressure of holiday shoppers on Monday morning, crashing just as the company tried lure in… Read More