Value was in vogue in 2024. Shoppers and restaurant patrons in the U.S. were choosy about where and how to spend their money as they wrestled with high housing and food prices. Here are some of the trends – and dead ends – that The Associated Press tracked in 2024.
Amazon has been the largest force behind a boom in distribution center real estate across Connecticut, and recently signaled it planned to resume the expansion after halting it last year.
After a high-profile pullback that left some developers in the lurch and other warehouses leased but sitting empty, is Amazon planning an about-face on its footprint contraction?
Amazon.com has acquired a former retail big box property on Orange’s Boston Post Road, after developing a 114,500-square-foot distribution center.
A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact is planning a walkout at the company’s Seattle headquarters Wednesday.
Officials in neighboring Naugatuck Valley cities formally approved the sale of municipally-owned land needed for a large, planned Amazon warehouse.
Amazon reported its first quarterly loss since 2015 on Thursday, its money-making juggernaut stalled by a slowdown in pandemic-induced online shopping and a huge write-down of its investment in an electric-vehicle startup.
Local and state officials are lauding a large logistics center proposed for a site on the Naugatuck-Waterbury line.
The latest speculative warehouse to rise in South Windsor will be yet another Amazon facility.
There will be something missing at two Whole Foods stores opening next year: the rows of cashiers.
The online shopping giant is pushing landlords around the country – sometimes with financial incentives – to give its drivers the ability to unlock apartment-building doors themselves with a mobile device.
Amazon has temporarily shut down a new warehouse construction site in Connecticut after a seventh noose was found hanging over a beam, a series of incidents local police called “potential” hate crimes.
Amazon’s latest logistics facility will be converted from a former Kraft Foods warehouse and factory in Glastonbury.
Police are investigating the discovery of six nooses at the construction site of an Amazon distribution center in Connecticut.
Amazon officials appeared before Glastonbury’s Planning & Zoning Board last week outlining their plans for yet another distribution facility in central Connecticut.
Add last-minute holiday shopping to the list of time-honored traditions being upended by the coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon is seeking to establish yet another distribution facility in Windsor to compliment its two existing ones.
Amazon is launching a new service which it promises will streamline the integration of smart home devices into multifamily buildings.
Amazon will fill a speculative 403,000-square-foot distribution center built by Indiana developer Scannell Properties at 120 County Line Drive in Cromwell last year, company and city officials said Wednesday.
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton announced Amazon will be building a distribution center in the city with a two-word exclamation.
