Prime Day

As it looks to expand its already massive footprint on the global economy, Amazon.com, Inc. (NYSE: AMZN) has prepared a new-and-improved Prime Day for July 16, 2018. The annual discount event began in 2015 as a means to entice more users to subscribe to Amazon Prime, the e-commerce giant’s...

Main Street and Wall Street are both making a big deal out of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s annual Prime Day selling holiday but there is little reason to celebrate Jeff Bezos' invested holiday, according to Gadfly's Shira Ovide. Just A Big Hoopla? Amazon hosted a 30-hour selling event this...

Following Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s annual Prime Day, Deutsche Bank analyst Paul Trussell took a look at how traditional retailers responded in the face of sales as big or bigger than Black Friday. Amazon reported that it sold three times as many Echo devices as on last year’s...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s Prime Day event is set to begin within a matter of hours. While Amazon is promoting huge savings on a number of popular items, the website BestBlackFriday.com crunched the numbers to see just how good Amazon’s 2017 Prime Day deals are up to this point....

The highly-anticipated Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) 2017 Prime Day is set to kick off at 9 p.m. ET Monday night. Amazon is offering all kinds of deals on high-end electronics and other merchandise. For shoppers who have never participated in the Prime Day shopping event, the first step to be...

Investors have been operating under the assumption that Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s acquisition of organic and natural grocery chain Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) will impact the entire grocery sector over the long term. But that isn't the only scenario, as traditional grocery stores...

The rise of e-commerce has led to brand new online shopping holidays such as Cyber Monday and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s Prime Day. However, more online order deliveries mean more shipping returns. United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) has embraced the flood of holiday shipping...

Retailers adopt different strategies and marketing gimmicks to draw consumers out of their shells, especially amid the fluid economic environment, and force them into splurging on good and services they not only need but also want. Designating days for focused shopping, when retailers allure...

Global orders grew 60 percent year-on-year during Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s Prime Day 2016, making it the company’s largest ever event. JMP’s Ronald V. Josey reiterated a Market Outperform rating on the company, with a price target of $775. Largest Ever Event Device...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) disclosed the second annual Prime Day was the biggest day ever. The company revealed customer orders topped last year's Prime Day by over 50 percent in the United States and 60 percent globally. Amazon said it was also the biggest day ever for Amazon devices at the...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s Prime Day 2016 is in the books, and the sale was the biggest shopping day in history. But was this year’s Prime Day as impressive as last year's? Here’s a look at the numbers. According to Amazon, customer orders during this year's Prime...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) kicked off its highly anticipated Prime Day today, which some consumers have called "Christmas in July." The ecommerce giant hopes to squeeze out its retail competitors by offering Black Friday deals, but just like last year, Prime Day hasn't run as...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s Prime Day is certainly getting a lot of headlines today. Ironically, the e-commerce giant has made the promotion into a major sales opportunity for many of its rivals, who have launched competing prime day deals. For example, Retail Dive reports Wal-Mart...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is grabbing a lot of headlines for its second annual Prime Day, but competitor Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is fighting back by offering free shipping with no minimum purchase requirement. Walmart has also been offering a number of “Rollbacks”...