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Amazon Focuses on Bricks as Well as Clicks
The Seattle-based company operates 652 physical locations and venues
This article appears in the May 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Amazon Inc.s projected share of the total e-commerce market will top 50 percent this year for the first time, according to Feedvisor, but the worlds largest online retailer has a growing brick-and-mortar business, pointing to the importance for retailers to have…
The Top 10 Tech Towns in America
Where does Seattle land on this list?
This article appears in print in the October 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Each year, JLL Research ranks the top office markets for tech, creating a weighted score based on factors like market momentum, level of education and transit-oriented workforce. The second column shows the top cities for tech wages. Seattles average…
A Real Look at Seattle’s Wage Growth
See how Seattle compares to national wage growth numbers.
This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Since 2006, private-sector wages in the United States have climbed 12.9 percent. But factor in inflation, as PayScales Real Wage Index does, and the buying power of those paychecks has fallen 9.3 percent. In the second quarter of 2018,…
What is the Most Productive and Efficient Big Company in Seattle?
If you're guessing Amazon, you guessed wrong.
This article appears in print in the August 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. With all of Amazon’s cloud technology, robotic machinery and renowned efficiency, you might expect it to be among the local firms with the highest revenues per employee Not so. See below.
The 10 Biggest Hotels in Seattle
Ranked by total number of rooms.
This article appears in the June 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. When the monolithic Hyatt Regency Seattle opens later this year at Eighth and Howell, the hotel-room count in downtown Seattle will rise by 1,260 and the Hyatt Regency will supplant the Sheraton Seattle as the largest hotel in the city. For…
StatShot: Foam Home
The brewery boom continues.
If youre under the impression there are more craft breweries in your neighborhood this week than last, youre not far off. Washington adds a new brewery about every 11 days, and the Washington Beer Commission estimated in early December that, by the end of 2016, the state would have 348 breweries nearly twice as many…