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Prime Day 2022 reaches historic milestone

Prime Day 2022 reaches historic milestone

SEATTLE — Amazon Prime members purchased more than 300 million items worldwide during Prime Day 2022, making this year’s event the biggest Prime Day event in the company’s history. And, more shopping means more savings—Prime members saved over $1.7 billion, more than any previous Prime Day event. This year was the biggest Prime Day event

Prime Day becoming ever bigger impetus for sales

Prime Day becoming ever bigger impetus for sales

Since 2015, Amazon’s Prime Days have been stealing July headlines and market share. COVID-19 may have delayed Prime Days until October, but it didn’t slow down sales. Total Amazon sales grew 45% from 2019 Prime Days to 2020 Prime Days, and sales for Amazon third-party sellers grew 69%, according to 1010data Market Intelligence. During 2017

Amazon Prime Day breaks online shopping records

Amazon Prime Day breaks online shopping records

SEATTLE — On a day (and a half) with more than one million deals worldwide offered exclusively to Prime members, sales this Prime Day surpassed Cyber Monday, Black Friday and the previous Prime Day, when comparing 36-hour periods, making this once again the biggest shopping event in Amazon history. Prime members worldwide purchased more than 100 million products during this

Rationalization of store base on the horizon

Rationalization of store base on the horizon

The second annual Amazon Prime Day was held this month and, despite early technical problems that slowed down the checkout process for some customers, it was another in a series of successes for the nation’s leading online merchant. The company reported that the event was the best day in Amazon.com’s 22-year history, with sales in

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