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Prime takeover: Amazon goes on a marketing blitz inside Whole Foods stores as Prime Day nears

Amazon really wants you to know about how Prime members can save money at its Whole Foods grocery stores. If you’ve… Read More

Amazon expands Prime member savings to all Whole Foods locations across U.S.

Amazon’s new Prime discount program will be available at all Whole Foods locations across the U.S. this week. Prime members… Read More

Microsoft reportedly working on Amazon Go-like cashier-less technology

Amazon isn’t the only Seattle-area tech giant that wants to change how we pay for items at the grocery store.… Read More

Amazon Prime’s new Whole Foods discounts roll out Wednesday in 10 more states, including Washington

Amazon continues to bring its new Whole Foods discounts across the nation. Starting this Wednesday, June 13, Whole Foods stores… Read More

Walmart takes on Amazon in Seattle, starts offering grocery delivery in rival’s backyard

Walmart is set to launch grocery delivery in the Seattle area as it continues to expand the new service across… Read More

Amazon Go to open in Chicago and San Francisco, expanding cashier-less store footprint

Amazon is opening additional Amazon Go locations in Chicago and San Francisco as the company expands its cashier-less grocery store… Read More

Amazon expands Whole Foods grocery delivery to 3 additional cities

News Brief: Amazon today expanded its Whole Foods grocery delivery service to three additional cities: Denver, Sacramento, and San Diego.… Read More

Walmart counterpunches Amazon with plan to expand grocery delivery service to 100 U.S. markets

A big battle is brewing over the delivery of milk, fruit and cheese, and how Americans will spend their hard-earned… Read More

Hands-on with Amazon Go: We tested the tech giant’s experiment in checkout-free retail

Smartphone in hand, I stood inside the Amazon Go store and turned the screen over to scan a unique QR… Read More

Amazon Fresh truck

Report: Amazon Fresh shutting down in some neighborhoods across the country

Amazon Fresh is shutting down in neighborhoods in at least nine states across the U.S., Recode’s Jason Del Rey reports. Customers… Read More

Amazon HQ

Report: Retailers outside the U.S. need to assume ‘Amazon is coming for them’

In large neon letters a couple stories above street level in its Day 1 office tower in Seattle, Amazon’s message… Read More

Price check: Here’s how much Amazon is slashing Whole Foods items on its first day as new owner

Whole Paycheck? Not anymore. Based on our research, “3/4 Paycheck” might be a better nickname for Whole Foods Market following… Read More

Amazon clears key regulatory hurdle in bid to buy Whole Foods for $13.7B

It’s been a good day for Amazon and its quest to acquire Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. Today, the… Read More

Walmart’s grocery and e-commerce units surge as battle with Amazon intensifies

Ahead of a battle the Amazon-Whole Foods grocery alliance, Walmart is growing its digital operation and its grocery division is… Read More

Instacart growing faster than expected despite Amazon’s deal to swallow up Whole Foods

When Amazon announced its intention to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in June, it sent shockwaves through the grocery… Read More

Whole Foods profits dip more than 11% with big Amazon acquisition pending

Whole Foods Market reported profits of $106 million for the quarter ended July 2, down more than 11 percent despite… Read More

Congressman calls for hearing on Amazon’s $13.7B bid for Whole Foods, says deal could impact neighborhood grocery stores

A U.S. Congressman who serves as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee is calling for a hearing on… Read More

Video: French grocer parodies Amazon Go, claiming checkout-free shopping is nothing new

Amazon is creating a lot of unrest in the grocery world. The company has its fingers in many pots in… Read More

Fresh off IPO, Blue Apron CEO says Amazon’s grocery focus is ‘good for us and good for others’

Blue Apron went public Wednesday, slicing its individual share price to $10 and bringing the meal-kit delivery company’s market value… Read More

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

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