Black Friday may get all the press, but Cyber Monday continues to be the biggest day for online shopping, Amazon confirmed today. The online retailer posted the best-ever shopping day in its history yesterday.
“Black Friday and Cyber Monday continue to break records on Amazon year over year, which tells us that customers love shopping for deals to kick off the holiday shopping season,” Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke said in a prepared statement. “With curated gift guides, convenient shopping experiences, incredible product selection, and free shipping with no minimum purchase amount, Amazon offers customers tremendous value—sure to deliver smiles all season long.”
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As it always the case, Amazon didn’t provide any hard numbers related to how much its customers actually spent on Cyber Monday. But it did mention a few interesting fact-lets, none of which really comparable to anything else, including each other.
Stooks
<p>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">included the Amazon Echo Dot, </span><em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Becoming</em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> by Michelle Obama, the Amazon Smart Plug, and the L.O.L. Surprise Series toys."</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My house will never see any of that. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Amazon needs to be watched as much as Google or Facebook when it comes to privacy and what it does with all of the data it collects.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I have prime but I am not sure I really need it. In 2018 I seriously decreased my buying on Amazon. With tax on almost everything and getting the wrong, fake or used item way too many times, I use Amazon to get price matches with local vendors these days.</span></p>
Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#373206">In reply to remc86007:</a></em></blockquote><p>Give Amazon a ton of data. </p><p><br></p><p>Seriously I do not understand it either. Unless it is plugged into a better speaker the sound coming from it, is cell phone speaker quality.</p>