Please read the articles again and show us these facts:

http://gawminers.eu/news/hashbase-visa-hashcoin-prelude/
HashBase will allow you to mine a coin, search for a product, see search results from Target/Walmart/Amazon/Macy’s, and buy on the spot. A few days later, the product shows up at your door.

This article says "will allow you" which implies he strongly believes that it will happen, not that it has already.

http://bitcoinchangeclub.org/blog/tag/hashcoin/
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141101202832-161480692-new-digital-currency-is-poised-to-eclipse-bitcoin
Wal-Mart, Amazon and Target are apparently buying it up in bargaining, while the CEO makes the case that his devoted “customers deserve the same participation,” so for once, the playing field has been leveled for small investors and loyal customers.

These 2 articles are basically the same and both include the quoted sentence, which implies the companies are interested in his product.

I'm still waiting to see any quote of him saying what OP has repeated after the Coinfire's article, which is "they had partnerships with big companies like Target, Amazon, and Walmart...".