Tuesday 2 January 2018

Amazon shipped over 5 billion items worldwide through Prime in 2017

It's a new year and evidently a great time for Amazon to tell us how many items the company shipped over the past 365 days. Amazon says today that more than 5 billion items were shipped through its Prime program last year, which includes free same-day, one-day, and two-day shipping. Amazon also says, "more new paid members joined Prime worldwide this year than any previous year."

Alongside the new factoid, Amazon published a list of the most popular Prime items. Apparently people love to order bananas through AmazonFresh, and the Instant Pot was the best seller on Prime Day. Who knew.

We, unfortunately, have relatively little information about how many Prime members existed prior to 2017 or even during the year. The last stat TechCrunch...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/2/16841786/amazon-prime-2017-users-ship-five-billion

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/01/amazon-shipped-over-5-billion-items.html

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