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Amazon sold over 300 million items at its Prime Day event

Amazon sold 100,000 items per minute over its Prime Day sales bonanza, totalling over 300 million items purchased around the world. The e-commerce giant said it was its most successful Prime Day event to date, taking in 3 billion dollars of revenue. “Prime Day is a celebration of our Prime members, who look forward to this event every year, and...

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Amazon Prime day 2021 is here

Amazon.com Inc.'s two-day Prime Day event is happening now with more than 2 million deals on offer. The e-commerce giant's biggest shopping extravaganza of the year started June 21 at 3 a.m. EDT and runs for 48 hours, through June 22. Prime Day 2021 will feature the largest number of deals ever offered in the seven year history of the Prime Day...

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Amazon Prime Day to take place on 13-14 October

Amazon has announced that its annual Prime Day will this year take place on 13-14 October after initially being delayed due to Covid-19. The company said it would be investing an additional 100 million dollars in special Prime Day and holiday promotional programmes to “further its support of small businesses during Covid-19 and beyond”. Prime...

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Amazon Prime Day boosts sales for all US retailers, says Adobe Analytics

Amazon Prime Day is proving to be a beneficial day for other large retailers in the United States. Retailers with more than 1 billion US dollars in annual revenue saw a 64 percent spike in sales on the first day of Amazon’s discount event, compared to an average Monday, according to Adobe Analytics. The difference is ten percentage points higher...

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July sales heat up as retailers compete with Amazon's Prime Day

Amazon kicked off its two-day sales event, Prime Day, today and its competitors are trying to beat the retail giant at its own game. Retailers including Target, Walmart and Ebay are offering their own sales to customers to take part of the trend Amazon started five years ago. Prime Day offers a series of flash sales to Amazon's Prime member...

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Amazon employees in Germany to strike for second consecutive Prime Day

Workers at seven of Amazon’s twelve warehouses in Germany are going on strike between Sunday evening and Monday, according to a press release by trade union Verdi. The date coincides with Prime Day, Amazon’s annual discount event. Under the motto “no more discount on our incomes”, workers will stage a walkout in the cities of Werne, Rheinberg,...

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Amazon workers strike in Germany and Spain

Thousands of Amazon employees went on strike yesterday in Germany and Spain to demand better working conditions. The German workers opted for a one-day strike, while their counterparts in Spain decided to walk off the job for three whole days. The walkout coincided with Amazon’s Prime Day, when the global e-tailer offers significant discounts....