- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported a record-breaking holiday season with the biggest-ever customer savings, small business growth, and community giving.
In a company blog post, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported a record-breaking holiday season with the biggest-ever customer savings, small business growth, and community giving. Specifically, Amazon had delivered over 1.5 billion toys, home products, beauty, and personal care products, and electronics.
“We delivered billions of items to customers around the world this holiday season, added even more ways for customers to receive their holiday items, provided useful tips to make the holidays bright, and helped customers stay connected with loved ones,” said the company in a blog post.
And Amazon’s CEO of the Worldwide Consumer division Jeff Wilke said that Amazonians stepped it up when the company’s customers including healthcare workers on the front line most needed essential supplies, the team and partners went “above and beyond to stock and deliver those items.”
The best-selling items included: ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run Brain Game, Lite-Brite Ultimate Classic Retro Toy, Jenga Classic Game, Just Dance 2021 – Nintendo Switch Standard Edition, Sengled Smart LED Light Bulb, all-new Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote, COSORI Air Fryer Max XL Electric Hot Oven, Keurig K-Slim Coffee Maker, iRobot Roomba 675, Revlon One-Step Hair Dryer, and Neutrogena Cleansing Face Wipes.
Over 8 million items were delivered to alternative delivery locations this holiday season including Amazon Hub locations, or Amazon physical retail stores like Amazon 4-star, and Amazon Books.
And Amazon Alexa helped tens of millions of customers find gifts for everyone on their list this year by offering gift suggestions and helping customers make and share lists, add items to carts, and make purchases.
Disclosure: I have a small Amazon position in my stock portfolio.
