Amazon Confirms: This Cyber Monday was the Single Biggest Shopping Day Ever, Surpassing Prime Day for the Most Products Order...
November 29 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Cyber Monday was the biggest day on record for
small businesses
Over the Turkey 5 – the five days from
Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday – customers ordered nearly 140 million
items from small businesses worldwide
(NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon today announced that Cyber Monday was the
single biggest shopping day worldwide in the company’s history, and
the biggest day ever for small businesses and entrepreneurs selling
on Amazon.
“Amazon customers shopped at record levels during the Turkey 5,
ordering hundreds of millions of products from toys to fashion to
electronics and Amazon devices,” stated Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide
Consumer. “Customers ordered nearly 140 million items from small
businesses alone and this is just the beginning of the holiday
season. We’ll continue to offer incredible deals and a vast
selection of unique products, with fast and free shipping options
all season long, and every day.”
Throughout the Turkey 5, Amazon customers worldwide ordered at
record levels:
- Customers ordered hundreds of millions
of products on Amazon from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday.
- Cyber Monday 2017 is now the single
biggest shopping day in Amazon’s history, surpassing Prime Day
2017.
- Amazon App orders on Cyber Monday 2017
increased more than 50 percent, worldwide year over year.
- On Cyber Monday, the best-selling item
was the Echo Dot.
- With new lower prices on turkeys and
Prime members receiving an even deeper discount this year, Whole
Foods Market in the U.S. broke its all-time record of turkeys sold
during the Thanksgiving season.
“Cyber Monday was our biggest holiday sales day ever, with
thousands of unit sales, and a 30 percent increase in sales over
Cyber Monday 2016,” said Kelly Fedio, Founder of One Savvy Life,
based in Redondo Beach, Calif.
“AncestryDNA was one of the top selling products on Amazon
during Cyber Monday, selling 700 percent more kits in one day, than
the entire holiday period last year,” said Vineet
Mehra, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
of Ancestry, based in San Francisco.
“Cyber Monday was our biggest day ever! We sold thousands of
items and saw a more than 500 percent increase in Cyber Monday
sales year over year,” said Jurgen Nebelung, VP of Ecommerce of Tea
Forte, based in Concord, Mass.
Free Shipping + Convenient Delivery
All Amazon customers can choose from more than one
hundred million items that are eligible for free shipping this
holiday and all year long. This includes eligible orders
of $25 or more shipped by Amazon, as well as free
shipping offers from the millions of small business and
entrepreneurs selling on Amazon. For customers who prefer to
pick up their packages when it’s convenient for them, Amazon Locker
is a safe and secure way to receive Amazon packages.
Available in more than 50 cities across the
U.S., Amazon Lockers are strategically located near
offices, major convenience stores, grocery stores, apartment
buildings and malls across the country. To learn more about Amazon
Locker, visit amazon.com/locker or to find the nearest
Locker visit amazon.com/findalocker.
Fast Shipping, Deals and More with Prime
Prime is designed to make your life better every day including
the convenience of fast, free shipping and great entertainment.
Prime members can shop thousands of Lightning Deals with 30-minute
early access and, with the Amazon Prime credit card,
members will earn even bigger rewards this holiday season. Members
can also enjoy Free Two-Day
Shipping with Amazon Prime, as well as Prime
FREE One-Day Shipping and Prime FREE Same-Day Delivery on
more than one million items in orders of $35 or more
available to members in over 5,000 cities and towns. And,
with Prime Now, Prime Members in more than 30 U.S. cities can
benefit from one-and-two hour delivery. In addition, Prime members
in 37 cities and surrounding areas across the U.S. can access
Amazon Key, the new service that radically improves the convenience
of receiving deliveries. Amazon Key will allow Prime
members to have eligible packages securely delivered inside their
homes without having to be there.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession
rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire
tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products
and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information,
visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.
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