According to the company, during the 48 hours during which the main Prime Day promotions were offered (after weeks of preliminary promotions), surfers from around the world ordered 300 million items from Amazon sites – the highest number during Prime Day promotions ever; According to the company, customers have saved a total of $ 1.7 billion – and perhaps this is the reason for the increase in sales: the worsening economic crisis may have caused more people to order things they intended to buy in the coming months as long as they are offered at relatively low prices; More than $ 3 billion has been paid for about 100 million items ordered from small businesses that maintain Amazon online stores.
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The average order rate was 100,000 items per minute worldwide, and 60,000 of them in the US alone; the most popular product categories were Amazon devices, appliances and household items – but Amazon’s best-selling product includes several products from other categories: Apple Watch, Titoli Pampers, Levi’s jeans, etc. The company added that 1.2 million pairs of sunglasses and a million swimwear were ordered in the United States.