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Rivian joining other electric vehicle makers with pop-up showroom at Seattle shopping mall

Seattle’s University Village shopping center is turning into an auto row of sorts for electric vehicle makers. Rivian, the maker… Read More

Amazon starts testing new mobile app layout, moving search box to bottom of the screen

In its neverending quest to remove every possible barrier from the shopping experience, Amazon has started testing a new mobile… Read More

Smart shopping-cart startup Veeve’s new device gives regular carts a high-tech upgrade

Seattle startup Veeve is expanding its checkout-free, smart shopping-cart technology from grocery stores to big-box retailers with a new attachment… Read More

Amazon Go — to the suburbs: Company to try its high-tech convenience store outside urban core

Amazon Go is going where customers live, not just where they work. The high-tech convenience store model that Amazon first… Read More

Fresh look for an old Sears: Amazon opening another grocery store in plaza south of Seattle

A shopping plaza south of Seattle in Federal Way, Wash., has a Fresh look, as Amazon is getting set to… Read More

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How to take on Amazon without getting crushed: Advice on tackling online retail’s 800-pound gorilla

Amazon is often described as innovative, creative, experimental and ruthless. It’s also very, very big — and getting bigger. With… Read More

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Can shopping malls survive? How technology and the pandemic are radically reshaping retail

Walk through Seattle’s trend-setting University Village shopping center near the University of Washington, and you’ll see Apple, Crate & Barrel,… Read More

Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines

Amazon Go is going full grocery. Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines,… Read More

Inside Nordstrom’s 7-story flagship NYC store, where digital retail meets physical brick-and-mortar

NEW YORK CITY — I spent a little time across the country earlier this month in New York City and… Read More

Seattle-area mall employs parking tech to give last-minute holiday shoppers access to best spaces

Rather than spend time searching or competing against other drivers for the best parking spots at the mall, shoppers pressed… Read More

Amazon to double seasonal hiring to record 200k workers as business continues to boom

Amazon plans to hire 200,000 seasonal workers this year, twice as many as last year, suggesting that it expects a… Read More

Goodbye, Dash: Amazon will end support for geeky shopping gadgets

Amazon Dash, an IoT attempt by the tech giant to help customers quickly restock household items, is officially going bye-bye.… Read More

Newly launched Amazon Live shopping streaming service looks to take on QVC

Amazon is taking another shot at a QVC-style show for the internet era. TechCrunch first reported on the service this… 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

Cyber Monday sales on track to hit $7.8 billion, marks biggest online shopping day in U.S. history

Update: Adobe reported a record $7.9 billion spent on Cyber Monday, with $2.2 billion coming from smartphones. “Buy Online Pick… Read More

Black Friday online sales rise 24% to $6.2B in U.S., including record $2B purchased on smartphones

Online sales rose 23.6 percent to $6.22 billion on Black Friday in the U.S., according to new industry stats released… Read More

Latest Porch partnership teams home services company with eBay to give shoppers a helping hand

Looking for someone to mount that TV you just picked up on eBay? Seattle-based home services company Porch is teaming… 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

Virtual interior designer Stylyze raises cash to transform how shoppers find home decor, apparel

Do you ever get that feeling when you walk into a beautiful home, and wish you had the magic touch… 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

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

Amazon expands StitchFix competitor Prime Wardrobe to all customers

Amazon’s try-before-you-buy clothing service is now available to anyone. Prime Wardrobe was previously offered to Amazon Prime customers in the… Read More

Oprah Winfrey on Amazon

Hey, Alexa, put Oprah on: Amazon calls in famed voice to promote ‘Favorite Things’ holiday list

YOU get an Echo! YOU get an Echo! YOU get an Echo! Everybody gets an Echooooo! Well, not quite. But,… Read More

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Amazon’s ‘1-Click’ patent expires today, and soon you’ll be able to accidentally order stuff across the entire internet

From outdated party decorations to that iTunes single you didn’t really mean to buy, Amazon has been behind every unintentional,… Read More

Amazon is launching a home improvement show using YouTube stars to sell stuff

Would you buy a couch because your favorite YouTube star recommended it? Amazon is betting your answer is yes. The… Read More

Amazon Spark is a new Instagram-inspired shopping feed featuring Prime members as influencers

Amazon launched a new feature today that allows Prime members to post stories to a feed, similar to those popular… Read More

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Chart: Amazon is the most popular destination for shoppers searching for products online

Amazon is beating out Google and other search engines as the first stop when people online shop. That’s according to… Read More

Amazon abruptly cancels trailblazing ‘Style Code Live’ shopping show

“Style Code Live,” Amazon’s experiment with a QVC-style show for the internet era, has been canceled. The news was first… Read More

Amazon is hosting another shopping holiday, this time offering 50% off digital content

Another day, another Amazon shopping event. This time, the Seattle e-commerce titan is offering 50 percent off of a slew… Read More

Online grocery wars: Fred Meyer expanding drive-up service this week in Amazon country

Fred Meyer will open a new drive-up grocery location this Wednesday at its store in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood — expanding its “ClickList” service… Read More

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