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Amazon vets behind smart shopping cart startup face a familiar foe — their former employer

With combined experience of nearly two decades at Amazon, startup founders Shariq Siddiqui and Umer Sadiq remain big believers in… Read More

Amazon unveils its own smart grocery cart, in new effort to automate physical retail checkout

Can the company that popularized the online shopping cart reinvent the real thing? Amazon unveiled its first smart grocery cart… Read More

Testing MilkRun: Portland’s farm-to-doorstep grocery delivery service launches in Seattle

The coronavirus pandemic is rapidly changing consumers’ grocery shopping habits and creating a big opportunity for startups like MilkRun. Demand… Read More

Uber vs. Amazon and Instacart: $2.65B Postmates deal shows appetite for broader delivery market

With its $2.65 billion deal to buy Postmates, announced Monday morning, Uber is making it clear that it’s hungry for… Read More

Amazon Go Grocery stores slated for Seattle area and Washington D.C., expanding retail footprint

Amazon is planning to open cashier-less “Go” grocery stores in Redmond, Wash., and Washington D.C., as part of a broader… Read More

Instacart sues Seattle over law requiring premium pay to drivers during the pandemic

The Seattle City Council is once again embroiled in a legal dispute with a gig economy company over efforts to… Read More

Revolution Agriculture reimagines the food supply chain with urban ‘farmlets’ in backyards

The vulnerabilities of a long food supply chain have been laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic as people across the… Read More

This startup is taking on Instacart by helping gig workers launch grocery delivery businesses

The coronavirus pandemic has made grocery and food delivery workers essential while exposing the inequities and shortfalls of an on-demand… Read More

Amazon CEO claims grocery delivery cuts carbon emissions by 43% compared to traditional shopping

Amid an annual letter dominated by the coronavirus crisis, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a bold claim about sustainable shopping… Read More

As local farmers embrace technology, coronavirus crisis could change our relationship to food forever

Alex Johnstone and David Rothstein dreamed of changing the world through food. They started with pastries. Then the coronavirus hit.… Read More

Here’s what Amazon is doing to increase capacity for surging online grocery demand orders

Amazon is putting new online grocery customers on a waitlist and is reducing hours at some physical Whole Foods stores… Read More

COVID-19 crisis sparks ‘inflection point’ for online grocery — and huge revenue for Amazon

More people are ordering groceries online due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, leading to a permanent consumer purchasing shift —… Read More

Amazon starts selling Amazon Go technology to other businesses

Amazon today unveiled a new business line, selling its “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology to other retailers. Amazon originally developed… Read More

Price analysis shows Amazon Go Grocery is already undercutting nearby retail rival

Amazon made headlines Tuesday with the debut of its newest cashierless grocery store concept in Seattle. The opening drew hundreds… Read More

Seattle’s Kyler Martz turns to Glowforge tech for big octopus project — big tech turns to him for more art

From the small studio behind his home in Seattle, artist Kyler Martz dreams up fantastical versions of assorted critters and… Read More

Amazon’s secretive new Seattle store reportedly part of push to expand ‘Go’ tech to bigger locations

After four years of silence, Amazon confirmed last month that the “Amazon Go team is running internal tests” at a… Read More

Walmart vs. Amazon in the produce aisle: New ‘open market’ format takes cues from Whole Foods

Walmart said Wednesday morning that it will roll out redesigned produce sections in the grocery areas of its U.S. stores,… Read More

Amazon to open its ‘first grocery store,’ with new format separate from Whole Foods and Amazon Go

Amazon ratcheted up its ambitions in the grocery business again on Monday, confirming plans for a new grocery format set… Read More

Amazon confirms its Amazon Go team is ‘running internal tests’ at secretive retail store in Seattle

Amazon finally revealed that it is working on a grocery concept at a prime retail location in Seattle’s popular Capitol… Read More

Amazon reportedly leases more than a dozen sites in Los Angeles for rapid grocery expansion

Amazon’s grocery push is kicking into high gear, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. WSJ reports… Read More

Seattle startup Swiftly raises $15.6M, launches supermarket OS to help retailers battle Amazon

Swiftly raised a $15.6 million seed round to help grocery stores and other retailers up their technology offerings to keep… Read More

Shrouded in secrecy, big new Amazon retail store in Seattle appears ready to open soon

Amazon has been involved with a prime retail location in Seattle’s popular Capitol Hill neighborhood since 2015, more than a… Read More

A Seattle original in 1915, reborn retail pioneer is using modern tactics to bring convenience to city

When Sam Cone arrived in Seattle from Eastern Europe more than 100 years ago, the young immigrant was alone and… 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

Amazon to add new Whole Foods stores, expanding reach of Prime Now delivery, report says

Amazon is laying the groundwork to return Whole Foods to growth mode, adding new stores in the suburbs and states… Read More

Shelf Engine raises $4.3M to help grocers battling Amazon save money on food orders

Shelf Engine has made some major changes since it was founded about two years ago. The Seattle startup began by… Read More

Amazon and startups bet big on checkout-free grocery tech, but widespread adoption is unclear

Food samples, loyalty programs, magazine subscriptions and, of course, Girl Scout cookies are among the items typically featured at promotional… Read More

Kroger inks deal with Alibaba to sell groceries online in China as it battles Amazon

Kroger today announced a deal with Chinese tech giant Alibaba to sell groceries online in China as the U.S. chain… Read More

Amazon offers Whole Foods drive-up grocery pickup for the first time, starting at two stores

Amazon plans to offer drive-up grocery pickup at Whole Foods Market stores for the first time — the latest integration… Read More