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That Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino Will Soon Be Available for Delivery

That Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino Will Soon Be Available for Delivery

The Seattle coffee purveyor will expand delivery services across the United States

Starbucks is aggressively making a play in the growing, $17 billion online food delivery category. The Seattle coffee giant will roll out its Starbucks Delivers service across the country early next year. Uber Eats will be the preferred delivery provider. Starbucks currently delivers in just 11 markets as part of a pilot program, but not…

Seattles A Great Place for That Jolt of Java

Seattles A Great Place for That Jolt of Java

Theres no shortage of coffee shops here. Thanks, Starbucks.

Call it the Starbucks effect. Seattle is tied with five other cities across the United States for most coffee shops per capita. The other cities are New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego and Portland, Oregon, according to WalletHubs 2019 Best Big Cities to Live in report. WalletHub ranked 62 cities across the country…

A Bold New Look Is in Store for Seattle's Pacific Place Mall

A Bold New Look Is in Store for Seattle’s Pacific Place Mall

Pacific Place makeover almost complete

This story appears in the July 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. When Pacific Place shopping center opened in 1998, breathless reviews described it as part of a retail explosion. It was credited along with the opening of the Nordstrom flagship store across the street with revitalizing downtown Seattle and creating a retail…

Archipelago Offers Diners a Taste of Filipino-American Culture

Archipelago Offers Diners a Taste of Filipino-American Culture

A new Hillman City restaurant explores the Filipino-American experience through story and flavor

TEAM EFFORT. Aaron Verzosa and Amber Manuguid took a big risk on opening a refined Filipino-American restaurant.

A New Reason to Visit Pike Place Market

A New Reason to Visit Pike Place Market

It wont last forever, though

As if the fish-mongers and farmers and crafts markets werent enough, Pike Place Market officials want you to know theres another reason to visit the 112-year-old Seattle icon: to watch the viaduct come down. Market officials are exhorting Seattle residents to enjoy the best view in the city as the viaduct removal is now directly…

Costco Sells Shopper $400,000 Diamond Ring

Costco Sells Shopper $400,000 Diamond Ring

That wasnt the only good news for the Issaquah-based retailer in its fiscal Q3

Costco Whole Corporation recently sold a shopper a $400,000 diamond ring, CEO Richard Galanti told analysts during a conference call after the Issaquah-based retailer reported strong third-quarter earnings. When asked by an analyst how the company would replace that revenue next year, Galanti responded, Do you have an anniversary coming up? The ring sale wasnt…

Tutta Bella, QFC Partner on Trendy 'Grocerant Concept

Tutta Bella, QFC Partner on Trendy ‘Grocerant Concept

The pizza chain will open a restaurant inside a new Kirkland QFC store

Seattles Tutta Bella Neopolitan Pizzeria and grocer QFC are the latest entrants in the booming grocerant space. The pizza chain, which operates five restaurants in the Puget Sound region, will open a restaurant this summer inside the new 50,000-square-foot QFC at the Kirkland Urban development, a mixed-use project almost near completion. QFC opened there in…

Seattle Tops U.S. in Retail Sales Growth

Seattle Tops U.S. in Retail Sales Growth

New construction, few vacancies power robust sector

Seattles soaring retail sector just keeps growing, even though nationally many retailers continue to struggle. Overall retail sales in Seattle vaulted 10 percent the past year, the highest growth rate in the United States, according to a report from commercial property firm Marcus & Millichap. Seattle-area employers have added 155,000 jobs the past three years,…

Chinese Buyers in Seattle Are Snapping up Pricey Luxury Cars

Chinese Buyers in Seattle Are Snapping up Pricey Luxury Cars

Wealthy Chinese nationals are a major group of buyers frequenting luxury car dealerships

DRIVEN TO SUCCEED. High-end Maserati automobiles have earned some cachet among Microsofts elite and Chinese nationals living in the greater Seattle area.

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