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UPS is teaming up with the city of Seattle on the downtown delivery pilot project, which will use pedal-assist cargo eBikes and customized, modular trailers. The pilot will operate in the Pike Place Market and downtown Seattle area on sidewalks and in designated bike lanes.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The Seattle startup Pacific Coast Harvest , which connects local farms and home delivery, is now offering a discount program to assist low-income families, GeekWire reported Sunday (Sept. The startup recently teamed with the city of Seattle and area preschools to give low-income families the same service at a discount.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Two politicians traveled to New York to warn the city about the troubles Amazon’s headquarters brought to Seattle, according to a report in Bloomberg. Amazon announced last year that it was going to build a new campus in Queens.

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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 space is unusually big for a potential Amazon Go location and is under an apartment complex in a residential neighborhood, which is not like the 16 locations in existence across the country, GeekWire reported.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Reports out of Seattle say that Amazon has significantly cut the number of open positions in the city, and some employees are even talking about a hiring freeze. In addition, two current Amazon employees revealed that they heard no new positions will be added in the Seattle area until early next year.

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JULY 5, 2018

The new store is also located in Seattle, and according to Geekwire will stand about a mile away from the other one. In a statement, Amazon said “we are excited to bring Amazon Go to 920 5th Avenue in Seattle. The first cashierless Amazon Go store opened in January in Seattle after being in development for five years. “The

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APRIL 22, 2019

Thousands descended upon T-Mobile Park stadium in Seattle on March 28 — the earliest opening day in Major League Baseball (MLB) history — to see their home team, the Mariners, take on last year’s World Series champions, the Boston Red Sox. CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks , was the first NFL stadium to adopt the technology.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

intends to provide a $20,000 bonus to workers who choose to leave San Francisco, Seattle or New York while reducing their base salaries by up to 10 percent, Bloomberg reported, citing an unnamed source. As a number of companies have provided workers with greater flexibility with the location and method of work, Stripe Inc.

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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. The news comes a little more than two years after Starbucks announced it was investing in Princi, the Italian boutique bakery and café, known for its artisan breads.

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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. In the United States, Amazon has brought its cashierless Amazon Go concept to Seattle and Chicago , and plans to open a location in New York City. The Marketplace of Cashierless Ideas.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

But that’s what happened to customers of Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities on Sunday (Sept. The City of Seattle was busy trying to fix a glitch that sent links to over 3,000 people in error. The mailings marked the launch of Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities’ new billing system.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The initiative will also bring five new eateries to Seattle, which will serve as the training location for those enrolled in the program and help people in entry-level foodservice jobs attain the skills needed to earn a higher income. Poverty and income inequality are growing in Seattle.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

Now, GeekWire is reporting that a post-issuance submittal for the project on file with the city of Seattle contains this project description: “storage racks insulation plans on main floor for Amazon.”.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The company is boosting the number of engineers it is hiring in and around the Seattle, Washington area. The delivery company has nine openings for engineers around Seattle, according to a report in GeekWire , citing job listings at Postmates.

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MAY 1, 2017

Tencent, whose mobile chat and social commerce app Wechat sees over 889 million active users, has decided to open up shop in Seattle — and by shop, we mean an AI research center run by former Microsoft principal researcher Yu Dong, said The Information.

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MAY 21, 2018

Seattle Taxation Change of Heart. It looks like the tax situation in Seattle may be getting a bit stickier: Seattle’s city council has approved a new tax for the city’s biggest companies, including Amazon, to combat a housing crisis impacting the city’s working class.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Projects funded through Facebook’s Local News Accelerator program have led to new digital and email subscribers, plus an estimated $5 million value boost across the 14 participating newspapers, a news outlet reported on Thursday (Aug.

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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. The store, which is scheduled to open on Saturday (Sept. 29), is intended to be “part retail store, part coffeehouse and part hangout space,” the company said in an announcement.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In today’s top retail news, Amazon Go stores in Seattle are reportedly being equipped with Amazon One palm-reading scanners, while automotive brands are taking control of digital purchasing platforms. Plus, fashion-based small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are getting a new marketplace option.

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JUNE 18, 2018

It’s a thought that comes to mind this week because the World Cup is currently underway in Russia, and because this week’s news managed to offer up a win, a loss and a draw, depending on where one looked. . After round 16, when the knockout rounds begin, all games must end in a win, so overtime goes into effect. .

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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.” By going head-to-head with Amazon, Target throws down the gauntlet not only to its Seattle-based competition, but to Walmart as well.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

In today’s top payments news, Apple buys artificial intelligence (AI) firm Xnor for $200 million, a panel in New York City is seeking a $500 million bailout for debt-burdened taxi drivers and Google modifies its search function to make finding and comparing apparel easier. Apple Makes $200M Acquisition In Race For AI Dominance.

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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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APRIL 12, 2022

The Bank Automation News team is pleased to announce that Bank Automation Summit Fall 2022 will take place live Sept. 19-20 at the Hyatt Olive 8 in Seattle. View the Summit agenda.

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JUNE 11, 2019

(The retailer has been experimenting with the offering through an arrangement with Starbucks in Seattle.) The company’s other locations for the Go concept are mainly on the West Coast in places like San Francisco and Seattle. New York really fits … what we’re looking for,” said Amazon Vice President of Physical Stores Cameron Janes.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Amazon is reducing its headcount at its corporate office in Seattle, with the eCommerce giant reportedly laying off several hundred employees in what is seen as a rare move by the company. In recent years, Amazon has grown its employee base to more than 40,000 from just 5,000 back in 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, SWIFT and Microsoft have teamed with Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) to finalize the pilot of the Cloud Connect payments solution. The new solution will reportedly service SWIFT’s 11,000 financial institutions in more than 200 nations. Amazon Launches Virtual Health Clinic For Employees.

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JULY 30, 2019

Software engineer Paige Thompson, 33, allegedly boasted about the hack and left crumbs for investigators to follow, The New York Times reported. Seattle-based Thompson was charged with one count of computer fraud and abuse following her arrest on Monday (July 30). I’ve basically strapped myself with a bomb vest,” Ms.

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JULY 4, 2017

The headlines during the penultimate week of June in The Washington Post regarding the Seattle minimum wage increase might have been a bit confusing to the casual observer. On June 20, the news trumpeted that minimum wage was not killing jobs. Imagine being a working-class citizen in Seattle. Dueling Reports.

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MARCH 10, 2020

The program is currently being tested by small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Seattle and the Netherlands. The Seattle bundle will also include the Soundtrack Your Brand feature, which allows for “ad free, curated and fully licensed music” selected for the customer without the customer having to manually pick out a playlist.

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MAY 1, 2019

” The news comes as reports surfaced in April across a variety of financial news conduits, among them CNBC , that Amazon would add “additional payment mechanisms” to its Go stores – and among those would be cash. That was the fourth Go location — and the first to open outside of Seattle, Amazon’s hometown.

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MARCH 10, 2020

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, three Seattle entrepreneurs have created a wristband that vibrates when the person wearing it goes to touch their face, artificial intelligence (AI) startup Immutouch announced on Tuesday (March 10). It typically takes over a year to bring a product to market. Immutouch took 1/50th of that time.”.

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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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DECEMBER 10, 2018

The news comes as Amazon is reportedly testing the idea of bringing its cashierless checkout technology to a larger store format by experimenting in a Seattle space that is formatted like a big store, according to a Wall Street Journal report earlier in December. Amazon Go’s first location opened in Seattle earlier this year.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

This is the fourth Go store and the first to open outside of Amazon’s hometown of Seattle. Just last week, the company announced plans to open an Amazon Go location in New York. 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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