RACHEL SIEGEL | The Seattle Times

March 25, 2019 at 9:32 am

Nike fined $14 million by European Union regulators over antitrust violation

The bloc's competition commission said the U.S. sports apparel giant prevented many of its licensees from selling soccer team merchandise across European borders,

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January 23, 2019 at 11:34 am

Chinese retail sales are set to dwarf U.S. sales this year

With the rise of the Chinese middle class, consumers are moving from rural areas to urban cities and earning more money. And that's all happening...

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Shelby Suhr, 12, left, of Overland Park, Kan., and her father, Kevin, look at discounted winter coats at a Columbia store as last-minute shoppers finish up their Christmas gift lists at the Outlet Malls in Castle Rock Monday, Dec. 24, 2018, in Castle Rock, Colo. Retailers were offering ample discounts plus even more price cuts to those shoppers who ventured out with the holiday looming. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

December 26, 2018 at 10:58 am

Holiday shopping numbers are on track to break season records

MasterCard SpendingPulse said holiday sales had seen the strongest growth in the last six years, surging 5.1 percent to more than $850 billion from Nov....

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A UPS truck on its delivery rounds in Washington, D.C., on December, 7, 2017. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Bill O’Leary.

December 19, 2018 at 2:58 am

For the first time, UPS will handle the most returned packages before Christmas

Over the past few years, National Returns Day — the peak of holiday returns — has been inching toward December. This year, it finally crossed...

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In this Monday, May 7, 2018, photo, pedestrians and cyclists gather near the Amazon Go store, in Seattle. Seattle’s latest tax proposal to combat homelessness takes aim at large businesses such as Amazon that have helped drive the city’s economic boom. But businesses and others say the so-called head tax is misguided and potentially harmful and they question whether the city is effectively using the tens of millions of dollars it already spends on homelessness each year. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

December 12, 2018 at 3:32 am

Amazon Go cashierless stores could swoop into airport retail

Retail and airport experts agree that the Amazon Go model could bring a major boon to the company and airport shopping as a whole.

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December 1, 2018 at 5:34 am

‘His life was a hymn of honor’: Washington reacts to Bush’s passing

WASHINGTON - Some remembered his handwritten notes. Others shared photos of that time he shaved his head in solidarity with a 2-year-old cancer victim. And...