Prime Day

Prime Day Sales Climb 9% as Fatigued Consumers Seek Deals

Prime Day Sales Climb 9% as Fatigued Consumers Seek Deals
Prime Day Sales Climb 9% as Fatigued Consumers Seek Deals
June 28, 2026  |  Retail

American shoppers spent more than $26.4 billion on this year’s Amazon Prime Day. That’s a 9.3% increase over last year’s eCommerce event, Reuters reported Saturday...

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Amazon Gives Alexa 96 Hours to Prove AI Can Sell
Amazon Gives Alexa 96 Hours to Prove AI Can Sell
June 23, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon is putting Alexa for Shopping at the center of Prime Day, using artificial intelligence (AI) to build personalized deal guides, track prices, recommend products...

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Smallbatch Pets Finds a Prime Day Edge in AI
Smallbatch Pets Finds a Prime Day Edge in AI
June 22, 2026  |  eCommerce

Prime Day is built for scale. Smallbatch Pets is built around the opposite idea: raw and freeze-dried pet food made in small batches from humanely raised...

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Prime Day Is Now a Weather System
Prime Day Is Now a Weather System
June 13, 2026  |  Retail

Summer in the United States has acquired a new seasonal ritual. Apply sunscreen, overpay for iced coffee, and receive 47 alerts that a cordless vacuum...

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Amazon May Move Prime Day to Late June
Amazon May Move Prime Day to Late June
March 12, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon plans to hold its annual Prime Day sale a month earlier, scheduling it for late June this year rather than July as it did...

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Amazon, Walmart Tap Fall Event Spending for Holiday Spending Clues
Amazon, Walmart Tap Fall Event Spending for Holiday Spending Clues
September 18, 2025  |  Retail

The retail calendar has always had its tentpoles. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. The holiday rush that begins in earnest when the leaves turn. But this...

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eCommerce Tops 16% of Retail Sales
eCommerce Tops 16% of Retail Sales
August 19, 2025  |  eCommerce

Earlier this year, PYMNTS Intelligence detailed that in-store shopping was far from dead. But when it comes to buying online, we found that consumers spent...

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Loyalty Takes a Back Seat in the Summer Discount Wars
Loyalty Takes a Back Seat in the Summer Discount Wars
August 12, 2025  |  Retail

When eCommerce sales go live, consumers in the United States open their apps, scroll flash deals and fill carts. While they do their shopping across...

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