Amazon Reports 'Record-Breaking' Holiday Season With 'Billions Of Items' Ordered

Amazon (AMZN) announced that this holiday season was "record-breaking," with "billions of items" ordered worldwide and "tens of millions of Amazon Devices" purchased worldwide.

Some of the best-selling products and brands this holiday season were the Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote, Echo Show 5, L.O.L. Surprise! Glitter Globe Doll Winter Disco Series with Glitter Hair, iRobot (IRBT) Roomba 675 Robot Vacuum, HAUS LABORATORIES, Carhartt, AmazonBasics, and Champion items, the company stated in its holiday sales press release.

Popular departments customers shopped in Amazon's Stores in the U.S. were toys, fashion, home and beauty with more than half a billion total items ordered, the company added. "This holiday season has been better than ever thanks to our customers and employees all around the world. On behalf of all Amazonians, we wish everyone the happiest of holidays and a fantastic 2020," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. The Fly notes that Champion brand is a subsidiary of Hanesbrands (HBI).

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Gary Anderson 5 years ago Contributor's comment

Things not dollars? Interesting.