Amazon Prime Day 2020 will be bigger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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67 percent of Americans intend to shop more tomorrow than on the traditional start of the holiday season. Amazon Prime Day 2020 will take place on October 13 and 14 and, according to a new CNBC report, 67 percent of Americans plan to shop more on those two days than they will on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The holiday shopping season will apparently start more than a month early this year. Amazon Prime Day typically takes place in July. That said, it was moved this year in response to…

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Amazon Prime Day has more competition than ever

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Other big retailers are giving Amazon a run for its money. Amazon Prime Day launched on July 15, 2015 to celebrate the eCommerce giant’s 20th birthday. What began as a 24 hour sales event in nine countries has expanded over the years into an annual 48 hour event across 18 countries. However, Target, Macy’s and eBay are offering big sales of their own to compete with Amazon’s Christmas-like-deals-in-July sales event. Competition soars among retailers wanting to cash in on the back-to-school shopping season. Amazon Prime Days, which launched today (July…

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Amazon mobile shopping expands with online grocery pickup

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Curbside online grocery pickup at Whole Foods now available via Amazon. The new Amazon mobile shopping grocery pickup experience will offer American Prime members the option of ordering their groceries online and picking them up in person (without having to leave their car) at its Whole Foods Market stores. The new service will begin in California and Virginia. According to the recent announcement from Amazon and Whole Foods Market, initially, the online grocery ordering and digital pickup system will first be rolled out in Sacramento, California and Virginia Beach, Virginia.…

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Study shows Apple, Amazon, and Dell take the top spots for mobile consumer satisfaction

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According to the results of a study performed by ForeSee, mobile shoppers were most satisfied with the experience provided by online retail giants Apple, Amazon, and Dell. ForeSee accumulated adequate data to achieve a solid and statistically reliable score for mobile satisfaction among the top 16 American online retailers. The score was based on 100 points and compared the mobile experience with that of the traditional web. There was a significant margin between Apple, which had the highest score, and Sears, which had the lowest among the top 16. Apple’s…

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