Tag: Prime Day

September 19, 2023

This holiday season, U.S. retail sales from Nov. 1 to Dec. 24 (excluding automotive) are forecast to increase 3.7% from last year, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, the marketing intelligence firm of Mastercard, which measures in-store and online retail sales across […]

July 14, 2023

Prime Day, open only to Prime members, has paved the way for summer sales across retail. “Amazon had plenty of competition for Prime Day this year with both Target Circle Week and Walmart Plus Week happening simultaneously, giving consumers several […]

July 29, 2022

Amazon has reported strong revenue and guidance, reassuring Wall Street with an upbeat forecast for the remainder of the year. The company’s shares rose over 10% in after-hours trading after the company reined in costs and benefitted from an increased […]

December 1, 2020

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Germany have been called on by their trade union to strike for the second time in a week in order to disrupt the processing of Black Friday orders. The strike is set to begin […]

November 11, 2020

Alibaba’s ‘Singles Day’ shopping festival has already smashed records and taken over $56 billion as China’s economy emerges from the pandemic. The Chinese ecommerce giant has already begun to cash in on China’s economic rebound as its iconic shopping event […]

October 16, 2020

Amazon Prime Day 2020 was a “record-breaking event for small and medium businesses” as third-party seller sales grew more than Amazon’s own. Third-party sellers, which now account for more than 60 per cent of total sales at Amazon, saw sales […]

October 13, 2020

Amazon is facing protests and calls for a boycott internationally from campaign groups as it launches its Prime Day 2020 shopping event. Campaign group Ethical Consumer has called on UK shoppers to boycott the retail giant this Prime Day, citing […]

October 12, 2020

After months of speculation around just when Amazon would go through with its annual Prime Day sale, usually held in July, it has finally landed in mid-October. That timing could turn out to be a boon not just for Amazon, […]

July 22, 2019

Prime Day’s benefits seem to be getting broader, both across the retail world and across the businesses of individual retailers. Ethan Chernofsky, Placer.ai marketing vice president, said in a blog post of Whole Foods’ traffic spikes that “this is a […]

July 16, 2019

Amazon’s blockbuster midsummer sale lasts twice as long this year, which (along with some global expansion) will help explode its sales numbers. But it’s not just time and space that is driving Prime Day’s success this year — Amazon has […]

July 15, 2019

The announcement of Amazon’s fifth annual Prime Day brought news of longer selling hours and special events for the “holiday,” but it also brought on increased competition from retail rivals. As the sales event kicks off, Retail Dive took a […]

July 9, 2019

Amazon last month announced that its fifth annual 2019 Prime Day will run on July 15 and 16 and will last 48 hours, the longest yet. Last year, the event was hampered by glitches that stymied shoppers from exploring the […]

July 8, 2019

Whole Foods is joining forces with parent company Amazon to help ensure Prime Day 2019 breaks lofty sales records again. Prime members who spend $10 at Whole Foods Market in store or on Prime Now will receive a $10 credit […]

August 8, 2018

Despite website blips, Prime Day 2018 once again set records for traffic and sales. But behind those record sales, were millions of individual shopping decisions. Research from A.T. Kearney shows that the most useful takeaways from the day may not […]

July 18, 2018

Being caught in a never-ending loop of puppy pictures wasn’t exactly what shoppers expected out of the first hour of Prime Day 2018. The fourth annual self-proclaimed shopping holiday got off to a rough start when a glitch from its […]

July 17, 2018

Prime Day, aside from being a lucrative sales day for Amazon, gives the e-commerce giant a chance to wrestle with system weaknesses ahead of the big dance: the holidays. This year Amazon’s desktop and mobile websites both experienced major glitches […]

July 9, 2018

Prime Day is a chance for Amazon to solidify its position in the smart-home market while continuing to grow its Prime membership. “We interpret the focus on promotional activities on Echo devices as a strategy in response to the surge […]

July 6, 2018

Amazon’s dominance of U.S. e-commerce is particularly stark when viewed in terms of gross merchandise value, as presented by eMarketer, because it includes revenue like the fees collected from its marketplace sellers, which are responsible for half the goods sold […]

September 7, 2017

Amazon’s Prime Day in July has proved to be a big winner for the online marketplace. In 2017, it was reported that the retailer made more sales than on Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2016, with website traffic up 101% […]