Holiday Spending

Amazon's holiday shopping weekend highlights more gift ideas, discounts

Shoppers logged on in record numbers for Amazon’s Thanksgiving weekend-long sales

While Amazon has been prepping shoppers for the holiday season for months now, its Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales were expected to be the main events of the big holiday shopping weekend.

Now, with five days of sales in the rearview mirror, Amazon is reporting that hundreds of millions of products were purchased over Thanksgiving weekend.

“This was a record-breaking holiday shopping weekend for Amazon,” said Doug Herrington, CEO, WW, Amazon Stores. “Customers shoppe...

12/01/2022 By Kristen Dalli

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