Here are some photos I took when in Seattle last week.

The first Starbucks store in the world

The Starbucks store was tiny, no seating and as expected, quite crowded with tourists.

It is in the historic Pike Street Market area, which is on the waterside. Because its a heritage area, Starbucks couldn’t change the logo of it, which is why it is brown.

They were selling all the usual Starbucks stuff but it was too late in the arvo for me to have a coffee – maybe next time.

Amazon’s global HQ is in an old medical centre on top of a hill overlooking Seattle. We didn’t visit this building but we spent two days in their other building which is near Union Station and Seattle’s soccer stadium.

That is where Amazon Enterprise Services are – you know, the services they provide for merchants, affiliates and re-sellers. There’s not a lot to indicate its “Amazon” apart from some really good posters on the wall, which illustrated their processes.

If I get to go back to see them again, I’ve been promised that I will get to meet some of the developers working on our web site, which would be excellent. This time around, I got to meet various Amazon project managers that I will be working with.