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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Thousands of miles from Seattle, where Amazon Go opened in January , the cashierless checkout model is taking hold in other parts of the world. It allows them to fully immerse themselves into the retail space with convenience and efficiency.”. The Marketplace of Cashierless Ideas.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

At a prime retail location in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, the Amazon Go team is running “internal tests.” The eCommerce retailer can easily absorb the costs of undercutting rivals and creating technology. Challenging Amazon isn’t an easy feat, however.

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MAY 16, 2018

The company said it is still evaluating whether to sub-lease space in a second future office tower in Seattle, a project called Rainier Square. In addition to Amazon, the tax would also affect Seattle-based coffee retailer Starbucks and department store chain Nordstrom.

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JULY 7, 2020

The vicious cycle of physical retail is meeting the virtuous cycle of digital, at a time when companies are aiming to chart a course toward a future that is without precedent. In retail, merchants need to enter a new kind of gig economy that can be called “gig retailing.” Data: . 42%: Share of U.S.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Amazon is partnering with nonprofit organization FareStart to launch a job training program in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. The eCommerce giant is donating more than 25,000 square feet of retail space to help support living wage career opportunities for those in need. Poverty and income inequality are growing in Seattle.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Seattle locals dropped everything once word started to spread online that the yellow vending “Snapbot” was spotted at Dick’s Drive-In restaurant. Spectacles, retailing for around $142, are sunglasses that allow wearers to record 10-second video snaps of life from their perspective and then download those memories onto Snapchat.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

To provide a new shopping experience for wireless products, AT&T is opening a new 3,000-square-foot concept store in Seattle. 29), is intended to be “part retail store, part coffeehouse and part hangout space,” the company said in an announcement. The store, which is scheduled to open on Saturday (Sept.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Amazon has opened a smaller version of its cashier-free Amazon Go food stores in one of its Seattle offices, according to a report by the New York Post. Located on the sixth floor of Seattle’s famous Macy’s building, it’s only open to Amazon employees and their guests.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Amazon is pushing retailers to accept yet another digital wallet at the point of sale -- its own Amazon Pay, which until now has been used almost entirely in the e-commerce world, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Seattle Bank has launched a new website and mobile app, CD Valet, to assist customers in finding the most competitive certificate of deposit (CD) rates while leveling the competitive playing field between large financial institutions and community banks.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

But in other ways, it was business as usual, as the two biggest retailers in the world – Walmart and Amazon – posted stellar earnings numbers and competed in more muted ways for the U.S. It’s interesting that the cumulative annual revenue growth rate for the Seattle-based crew (since 2014) is 31.5 percent for retail.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

No one knows exactly what Amazon’s plans are for a 9,759-square-foot retail space in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, but plans dug up by GeekWire seem to indicate that the space is being renovated into a drive-through grocery. The bulk of trips are expected between 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.,

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MARCH 2, 2020

To help consumers conveniently access their favorite products, retailers are offering a wide array of merchandise through automated retail technology. According to The Future of Unattended Retail Report from PYMNTS, “Unattended retail touchpoints populate a broad and diverse set of locations, and have taken various shapes and forms.”

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MARCH 4, 2020

SEATTLE — Embedded finance, or the concept of payments and banking being appended to other consumer use cases, is quickly evolving beyond retail and e-commerce, industry executives said at the Bank Innovation Ignite forum in Seattle this week.

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MARCH 4, 2020

Embedded finance, or the concept of payments and banking being appended to other consumer use cases, is quickly evolving beyond retail and e-commerce, industry executives said at the Bank Innovation Ignite forum in Seattle this week.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Much like those locations, the new location of Princi in Seattle has ovens that bake items in the store. Currently, Princi provides items to Starbucks Reserve Roastery locations as the exclusive food supplier. Beyond that arrangement, Princi has brick-and-mortar locations in London and Milan.

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MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. And Amazon and 7-Eleven aren’t alone.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. This marks the fourth Go store, and the first to open outside of Amazon’s hometown of Seattle.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

With unemployment at new lows, staffing has become a challenge for retail companies. Retailers had 757,000 job openings in July, which is roughly 100,000 more than they had a year before, The Wall Street Journal reported. Retailers are hosting “recruiting marathons” to help hire thousands of people.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

UPS , too, is going down the drone path – one that Amazon pioneered for retail delivery uses – and is seeking a certification to operate commercial drone flights. As the company had been testing the robot in Seattle, it was said to be accustomed to many different types of weather conditions, including that of sunny California.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

In today’s top retail news, CarLotz, Inc. Plus, retail rents have fallen to historic lows in the Big Apple amid the coronavirus pandemic. The firm will expand into the Seattle–Lynnwood, Washington market and will also provide a hub for the Orlando–Merritt Island, Florida area. Retail Rents Plummet In NYC As Vacancies Rise.

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JULY 5, 2020

billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Three years after it paid $13.4 And it’s not stopping there.

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JULY 8, 2019

Can cameras replace cashers in retail? The paper noted that many such retail innovation efforts for grocery start in Europe. The apparent payments policy shift comes amid criticism that cashless retail discriminates against unbanked consumers. The grocery industry is making a go of it. The latest effort comes from the U.K.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Amazon's supermarket, which boasts a cashierless checkout, is open to the masses after a year in beta with Seattle-based company employees. Retail industry pundits, not surprisingly, have a lot to say about the public launch.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from cool concept toward everyday consumer reality, and signs of that innovation are increasingly appearing in the retail space. Take the issue of retail security as one example. Retail Trust and AI. Based in Seattle and two years old, Xnor develops low-power edge-based AI.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

While Amazon has performed better for its own goods than other retailers, its independent sellers are also stressed about the delays. Thompson told the Seattle Times that UPS carriers consistently miss delivery windows to pick up new merchandise from Plugable’s California warehouse to deliver to Amazon.

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JULY 16, 2019

As Prime Day continues to roll along, retailers are doing anything and everything possible to capture consumers suddenly inspired to go on a midsummer shopping spree. The plan, Metzger noted, wasn’t to start a retail recycling revolution — or even a business at all. It pretty quickly spread from there. “And

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

By some accounts, the 2018 holiday season is going to be a bang-up year for retailers. retailers are expected to increase 4.8 percent this year, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF) — well above the 3.9 percent growth seen by the retail market one year ago. However, the hiring is not limited to retailers.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

For now, the feature will only be available at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle, at 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street and its store in South Lake Union at 300 Boren Avenue North. But there are plans to expand it across Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the company said.

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MARCH 16, 2018

Historically, large retailers tend to move more slowly. With those challenges in mind, StyleSage seeks to help brands and retailers through its competitive intelligence tool that works across four areas: pricing, assortment building, trends and promotions. Brands and retailers work on a global scale, after all.

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MARCH 17, 2020

retail economy is unprecedented. What are some of the retailing changes that could last beyond the end of the coronavirus crisis? Contactless payments, however, will fit nicely into what will be a need to have low-touch or no-touch retailing experiences. The partial shutdown of the U.S. So what sticks? They want convenience.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In today’s top retail news, holiday spending is expected to be flat this year, Bed Bath & Beyond rolls out same-day delivery and Target goes up against Amazon Prime Day with “Deal Days.” And the digital-first economy will drive the difference between success and failure for many retailers. But these are the easy points.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Amazon has been a source of stiff competition for online retailers around the world of many years. And, with the launch of its Amazon Go concept store in Seattle last year, the online giant brought itself out of the cloud and into direct competition with brick and mortar stores.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Over the next five years or so, we are going to see a dramatic level of retailers not able to sustain their level of core business as a traditional brick-and-mortar retailer … There’s going to be a tremendous amount of changes with regard to the retail landscape.”. GeekWire reported Starbuck’s earnings at $5.7

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

With the opening of Amazon Go in Seattle in January , Amazon arguably popularized the cashierless store concept. Since then, the eCommerce retailer has brought the store to other locations in the city and Chicago as well as one location on the way in Lower Manhattan.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Starbucks’ latest innovation doesn’t include camera-driven invisible checkout and doesn’t even come from Seattle. But for rank and file retailers, it may prove even more informative than watching the progress of Amazon Go.

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