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MARCH 18, 2020

Amazon is also going to give cash to food banks in the region, which will use the money to provide necessities for families and persons in need. Amazon has a large presence in Seattle, and the city is one of the hardest hit by the pandemic.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Only the southern region of the U.S. saw encouraging expansion, “although each region achieved year-over-year gains in pending home sales transactions,” the announcement stated. The PHSI measures signed contracts for existing one-family residences. percent higher than in October of last year. . NAR represents over 1.4

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Coffee Meets Bagel has recently set up operations in Seattle — its first office outside San Francisco — and used WeWork space for that. but in Seattle, it attracted three new hires fairly quickly,” the report said. “The but in Seattle, it attracted three new hires fairly quickly,” the report said. Innovator Awards.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Starbucks closed a Seattle store on March 5 after one of its baristas was diagnosed with the virus, but the cafe reopened the next day. The company noted that its China headquarters and regional support centers have been reopened, with the exception of the Wuhan support center in the Hubei province. “At

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JANUARY 11, 2021

“Opening hubs in new markets presents a tremendous opportunity for CarLotz to gain ground in large and attractive regions of the country where the Company’s business model can make a real difference for car buyers and sellers,” CarLotz CEO and Co-Founder Michael Bor said in the announcement.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

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 have fallen to historic troughs in New York City during the coronavirus pandemic, as bankruptcies and vacancies penetrated the region. CarLotz Plans Rollout Of US Hub Network.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

The Seattle-based company says it is using blockchain technology to maintain and serve up the data. “We For coffee blends, Starbucks will provide information about the country or region of origin, since beans from multiple farms are likely to have been combined, Bloomberg reports. On Tuesday (Sept. 1), Starbucks Corp.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Amazon has arguably pioneered the concept with its Amazon Go stores: The first location opened in Seattle this past January. This marks the fourth Go store, and the first to open outside of Amazon’s hometown of Seattle. The first Amazon Go opened earlier this year in Seattle, and two more locations have launched since then in the city.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Seattle-based global eCommerce giant introduced Prime Day five years ago to beef up typically slow summer sales. It has waited long enough to see shipment times improve on non-essential items across most regions, but not so long that it’ll compete with its own early Black Friday 2020 deals,” the website wrote. For $12.99

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JUNE 2, 2020

In a letter to its workforce posted on the company’s website on May 26, Rossann Williams , the Seattle-based company’s executive vice president, said the company will offer a voluntary leave of absence program for baristas impacted by reduced work schedules as the stores are still operating on a limited hours, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

These new cities will join the AmazonFresh family cities/regions of Northern Virginia, Boston, Baltimore, London, Seattle, New York, Philadelphia, Stamford, Trenton, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose and Stockton. Amazon announced yesterday (Oct.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Uber ’s Instant Delivery food delivery service has shut down in Seattle and several other major cities in North America, according to a GeekWire report. In addition to Seattle, GeekWire reported that Uber shut down its Instant Delivery service in San Francisco, Chicago and Toronto.

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ABA Community Banking

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

billion regional institution based in Seattle -- had a problem: many in the general public didn't realize exactly what it did. Washington Federal -- a $16.4 The post Podcast: With Rebrand, WaFd Puts Its Bank Identity Front and Center appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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JUNE 3, 2021

A closer look at the data by metro regions in which Washington Trust Bank primarily operates shows that this decrease in available listings is occurring locally as well. The active listing count by metro region has also declined when compared to the previous 4 year average.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

PetSmart is already the largest specialty pet retailer in the region, and it continues to grow. Locations in Las Vegas, Atlanta, Miami, Seattle and Chicago will also feature delivery, with eight more planned to debut in the coming months. The nearly 18,000-square-foot store opened this week in Sheradin, Colo.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Many of these communities were hoping to brand themselves as the co-headquarters with Seattle,” he said. “I I think it becomes just a regional office or a back office or a major office, but not a co-headquarters.”.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

by geographic region , identifying the top 10 credit unions by mortgage loan volume for the Northeast, South, Midwest and South. Many credit unions, like top-ranked Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU), headquartered just outside of Seattle, have invested in growing this segment of their portfolios.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

Amazon has been working hard to boost its presence in the region. Earlier this year, it was reported that the Seattle-based company was looking to lease a 50,000-square-meter warehouse near São Paulo. MercadoLibre currently holds the top spot in the eCommerce market in Brazil, while Amazon.com.br

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MARCH 20, 2018

The jump in cross-border sales volume, which was higher than the 31 percent increase in overall net sales last year, presents a huge opportunity for the Seattle, Washington, eCommerce giant, noted Reuters. as it eyes markets outside its home country.

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JUNE 16, 2017

With an investment in Grab, Alibaba or Ant Financial would be able to push Alipay, the mobile payment service, to millions of consumers in the region. billion, it may set a financing venture capital record for the region and could give the firm a valuation that is greater than $3 billion. If Grab is able to raise $1.5

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

The newest location, a Reserve Roastery comprising 30,000-square-feet and located in Shanghai, is the second of its kind to open its doors in China and is twice as large as the coffee chain’s flagship in Seattle, Washington. The brick-and-mortar location also represents Starbucks’ 17th market in the Latin American and Caribbean region.

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MAY 30, 2019

Miami’s tech scene is experiencing positive growth and we see a lot of opportunity for disruption in the region,” Pablo Sanchez, head of retail banking and wealth management for HSBC in the U.S. Pepper has continued to be rolled out and is now available in Beverly Hills and Seattle. Its also aimed at reducing customer wait times.

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APRIL 9, 2018

With Amazon , Kroger and other large retailers in the grocery business introducing digital technology, such as mobile self-checkout, how do smaller regional grocers compete? GrocerKey primarily works with mid- to large-sized independent and regional chains. Still, Neren is focused on large independent and regional grocers.

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MAY 3, 2018

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday (May 2) that Amazon told the also-ran cities, via conference call, that a “key issue” was toed to regional transportation — or, more specifically, the lack of a network facilitating that transportation. The financial publication illustrated that the efforts made by individual cities varied.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

On Thursday, an Amazon spokesperson told Forbes the company does not engage in surge pricing, nor does it allow product prices to fluctuate based on region or delivery location. Forbes reported the eCommerce giant expects to outgrow what its Seattle headquarters can support. Start the bidding war!

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The Seattle Times reported that a Bear Down Logistics driver in Michigan makes $15 an hour, while UPS pays about $20 an hour in the same region for the same work. Yet, in a competitive market, pay may matter.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Transportation and shipping logistic management firm Agile Network has entered an agreement to purchase Ajilus – a Seattle-based shipping systems and supply chain software consultancy.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

IBM has helped many regional and global organizations along this path with everything from migrating existing workloads to forward-looking projects such as blockchain and AI. But it is possible to gain control and establish a proactive foundation of well governed, compliant security upon which these cloud projects can be built and managed.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

The Seattle-based company said in a regulatory filing that it had launched an external search for a replacement for Maw, who will become a senior consultant until March 31, 2019. But, as Reuters points out, the coffee chain fell short of analyst estimates for same-store sales in the Americas region in five of the last six quarters.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

When Amazon came to Seattle, Washington, it changed the region through a boom in development to keep up with growth in employees and higher rent prices. “Through this process, we learned about many new communities across North America that we will consider as locations for future infrastructure investment and job creation.”.

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JUNE 29, 2018

NBC News reported that national, regional and local merchants are testing Google Shopping Express with big-name retailers including Target and Walgreens. The report speculated that the service could also prompt more merchants to buy online ads if the same-day delivery service takes off.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

According to reports last week, Amazon is exploring the expansion of its cashierless checkout technology to a larger store format, starting in an experimental Seattle store. Cashierless tech is currently up and running in seven Amazon Go stores sprinkled throughout Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco. Amazon has declined to comment.

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MARCH 9, 2020

And Amazon also told employees in Seattle, Bellevue and the San Francisco Bay Area to telecommute if they have the ability to through the conclusion of March. It has made multiple changes to its workforce during recent times because of the virus.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Founded in 2015, Seattle-based Convoy is among the biggest operators of online marketplaces that match truckers with shippers needing to move cargo,” the report said. As The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Nov. Rowe Price Associates. The startups, including Uber Technologies Inc.’s

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

Grubhub, for example, told Reuters that early signs show demand for takeout and delivery will recover in regions as the crisis levels off – though that remains very uncertain at this point. In Seattle, people feel like the worst is over; they’re feeling a little bit more confident.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Meanwhile, in America, Amazon has reportedly slashed the number of open positions at its Seattle headquarters and is even talking about a hiring freeze leading up to major capital expenditures on its forthcoming second headquarters in a city TBD. The urban-style campus will introduce 3.6

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

IHS Markit Chief Regional Economist James Diffley reflected on the findings, declaring the index as having plateaued, though at promising levels. The strongest region in the U.S.? Washington, which remained on top of the index thanks to Seattle, which saw the strongest metro employment gain in August with 0.92 percent.

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