Amazon said it delivered billions of items to customers around the world this holiday season in its annual post. As usual, you’ll have to wait until mid- to late-January to find more color when it releases its fourth-quarter financial results (and even then, it doesn’t provide granular data). But it did offer some factoids to chew on in its post-holiday blog post. Package pickup: Offering...
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Sales in the 2018 U.S. holiday shopping season rose 5.1 percent to over $850 billion, the strongest in six years, according to a Mastercard report on Wednesday, as shoppers were encouraged by a robust economy and early discounts. The data follows Amazon.com Inc’s announcement of a “record-breaking” selling season, with the online retail giant shipping a billion items for free through its Prime membership in...
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Shoppers have had it with crowds and Christmas shopping angst. They plan to avoid a lot of the hassle this year by filling more of their holiday shopping lists online (54 percent) than in brick-and-mortar stores (46 percent), according to a survey released this week by Accenture. And they’re going to avoid going out on the busiest shopping days. Slightly more than half (52 percent) of survey respondents said they’re less...
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