Christmas just went by and the year is about to end. After the huge festive sales and the big black Friday sale, people were excited about the Christmas shopping. According to Amazon, on Christmas too, people enjoyed lots of discounts, and with the Amazon’s Prime membership, they shipped their gifts for free. This time again, Amazon has recorded huge sales on almost everything.
Reportedly, in the last week, Amazon has shipped more than a billion items only in the US for free, that has even broken its own old records of sales. Both the Prime as well as the Trial members ordered more items than ever in this holiday season.
Though Amazon’s last earnings had disappointed its investors, the holiday season sale may help it regain the profits. The company has not disclosed the revenue it made in the sales, but still, has confirmed that it had the biggest sale ever. The company had a record-breaking business, and it registered tens of millions of people for its Trial as well as Prime memberships.
The company not only marked the sales of clothes, household items but had the most expensive branded things as its best sellers of the sellout, including the Echo, Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick 4K. It also sold the smart home devices such as Amazon Smart Plug, Ring Video Doorbell 2 and the iRobot Roomba 690.
Amazon’s CEO of its worldwide consumer business, Jeff Wilke, said that “We are thrilled that in the U.S. alone, more than one billion items shipped for free this holiday with Prime. This season was our best yet, and we look forward to continuing to bring our customers what they want, in ways most convenient for them in 2019″.
This time, Alexa became the favourite of many, and most of the people shopped using the Alexa app in the U.S. The shopping through the app got tripled this time as compared to the past year. The sale not only earned profits for the tech giant, but also the smaller businesses trading on Amazon, marked up to 50 per cent of profits.
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