Amazon’s workforce in the state soared to more than 32,000 full- and part-time jobs in the period between 2010 and the end of 2021, a spokesperson for Amazon told WRAL TechWire in March.

Amazon announced it will open a new store in Puyallup, a week after executives said the company would slow expansion of its brick-and-mortar grocery business.

A former Stein Mart in Rancho Mirage, off Bob Hope Drive, has long sported an Amazon Fresh sign, indicating the high-tech grocer would open its first Coachella Valley store.

Amazon’s dedication to in-person shopping has morphed over the years. Last March, the company announced that it would be closing all 68 brick-and-mortar bookstores it operated in the U.S. and ...