About NW Retail News

Store openings, expansions and remodels continually permeate the Seattle area's retail environment, due in part to the area's growing population and the higher-than-average discretionary income levels of local households.

To help advertisers track competitors and industry developments, The Seattle Times Company publishes a retail-focused newsletter — the NW Retail News. It provides a snapshot of retail trends; store openings; merchandising and strategy changes among retailers; incoming residential, commercial and mixed-use developments; Seattle's economic standing; and recent developments in the newspaper industry, including news from The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Published by The Seattle Times Company

The NW Retail News, previously the Seattle Market Update, is published and compiled by The Seattle Times Company Marketing Research Department from the following sources: various government reports, The Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, company press releases, Web sites and other published sources. For additional information, contact the strategic research department at research@seattletimes.com.