As suspected, this year’s Prime Day was Amazon’s biggest shopping event in the company’s history (despite its much-publicized hiccup). And as it’s wont to do, the e-tailer released a statement itemizing its various successes.
Among them for Prime Day 2018:
- Prime members around the globe purchased more than 100 million products during the 36-hour event.
- Best-sellers included the Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote and Echo Dot.
- Small- and medium-sized businesses selling on Amazon exceeded $1 billion in sales this Prime Day.
- Customers purchased more than 5 million items in each of the following categories: toys, beauty products, PCs and computer accessories, apparel and kitchen products.
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- The Toshiba 4K Ultra HD Fire TV Edition (50-inch) and the Toshiba 4K Ultra HD Fire TV Edition (43-inch) became the best-selling TV deals in Amazon history. Together, they sold more than six times as many TVs than 2017’s Fire TV Edition.
- July 17 was the biggest sales day for smart-home devices in Amazon history, with over 1 million devices sold. More specifically, the Amazon Cloud Cam was its best-selling security camera deal ever.
- Excluding Amazon’s proprietary devices, the top sellers in the U.S. included the Instant Pot 6 Qt 7-in-1 Multi Use, the 23 and Me DNA Test, and the LifeStraw Personal Water Filter.
- Perhaps best of all for the retail giant: Amazon welcomed more new Prime members on July 16 than any previous day in its history.
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Market research firm InfoScout, meanwhile, released its own data surveying 1,000 consumers who made an Amazon purchase within the first 24 hours of Prime Day. Among its findings:
- While Prime Day shoppers were overall satisfied with the deals, they still ranked the event lower than Cyber Monday or Black Friday when comparing the quality of deals offered.
- More than half (53 percent) of the respondents were very satisfied or extremely satisfied with the deals Amazon offered.
- Only 6 percent said they were not at all satisfied
- According to the firm, 44 percent of the respondents said this was the first year they’ve shopped on Prime Day.
- And in admittedly less good news for other retailers, 61 percent of the Prime Day consumers said they only considered Amazon for the products they purchased that day.
- Twenty percent considered Walmart, 12 percent Target, and 8 percent Best Buy.
- A full 46 percent said they didn’t compare Amazon’s prices with any other retailer.
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