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Target is testing beacons in 50 stores to notify you of discounts on nearby products

Target is rolling out beacon technology in its stores to push recommendations and coupons to a customer’s iPhone based on… Read More

Walmart follows Amazon’s lead by offering Black Friday-like discounts this week

Walmart and other retailers are rolling out massive sales this week in response to Amazon, which is planning a huge sales… Read More

Target’s quarterly profit surprises as online sales spur growth

Target’s online sales increased 37.8 percent in the first quarter, contributing to a larger-than-expected rise in quarterly profit for the Minneapolis-based… Read More

Amazon Prime discourages most people from comparison shopping online

Amazon Prime is working. That’s the quick and dirty takeaway from a survey conducted by market research consultancy Millward Brown… Read More

Target outlines big tech plans, with expectations for digital sales to rise 40 percent this year

Target laid out an aggressive growth strategy today during a two-hour long meeting with the investment community that includes boosting digital sales… Read More

Target unleashes new challenge to Amazon’s perks, drops free shipping threshold to $25/order

Target Corp. this morning took a new competitive swipe at Amazon, reducing its minimum online order requirement to $25 to qualify… Read More

Look ma, no pee! First impressions of Amazon’s surprisingly leak-proof diapers

After using an app to scan a code on the package, I learn that the diapers I’ve been using for the past… Read More

Black Friday e-commerce: Retailers brag about record results as Best Buy site goes down

In the days to come we’ll find out precisely how many billions were spent over this critical shopping weekend, but for now, there’s… Read More

Target adds in-store spin to iPhone app by adding interactive maps for all 1,800 U.S. stores

Target has already taken some pretty extreme measures to beat Amazon this holiday. Last month, it started offering free shipping on… Read More

GeekWork: Target seeks cyber-security engineer for key threat detection job

It’s been almost a year since Target suffered a massive security breach, exposing the personal information of millions of customers.… Read More

Target takes aim at Amazon for holidays, offering free shipping on all orders

Target has pulled out the big guns in its race to beat Amazon this holiday season. The Minneapolis-based retailer said today… Read More

No ‘Lego’ DVD for Amazon customers: Warner Home Video pre-orders nixed in latest negotiating standoff

Amazon’s contract battle with Hachette has been getting lots of attention, with the Seattle company delaying book shipments and declining to take… Read More

Top 50 retail brands: Amazon ‘a force to be reckoned with,’ but Walmart more valuable

Walmart and Amazon may appear to be in a close fight to be the go-to retailer for everyday low prices,… Read More

The Target Tipping Point: How e-commerce trumped traditional retail in transaction security

The first weeks of 2014 seemed to bring reports of new data breaches affecting retailers in the United States on… Read More

Target security breach encompasses 70 million

Target revealed today that the massive security breach that hit 40 million customers’ credit and debit cards also encompasses the… Read More

Gamers receive Xbox One two weeks early thanks to Target ‘systems error’

Thanks to a Target shipping error, a few gamers received an early Christmas present in the form of an Xbox… Read More

Target wants to eliminate showrooming by matching Amazon prices

Target Corp. introduced an online price-matching program just for the holiday season, but now it looks like it’s permanent. The… Read More

Seattle’s social media queen Jenni Hogan leaving KIRO

Seattle’s social media queen is leaving KIRO and dreaming big. Jenni Hogan, the KIRO 7 traffic anchor and Seattle’s popular… Read More

Study of Seattle consumers shows how weather influences online shopping

One particularly bleak January day, while staring at my computer screen for what seemed the 17th hour on an incredibly… Read More

Report: Target to dump Kindle

This could get very interesting, especially in light of the new alliance between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft. The Verge reports… Read More

Office Depot to sell the Kindle

Office Depot is joining its rivals Staples and Office Max in selling the Kindle, the electronic reading device from Amazon.com.… Read More

Target (finally) parts ways with Amazon, but retailer’s new site sputters at launch

It may go down in history as a big business blunder. But, back in 2001, when Target picked Amazon.com to… Read More

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