: Amazon saw its best sales performance ever on first day of Prime Day

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN said Thursday that the first day of its Prime Day shopping event drove its best sales performance yet. While the e-commerce giant didn’t provide specific sales figures, it noted in a release that Prime members bought 375 million items across the two-day stretch of discounting that took place Tuesday and Wednesday. Prime members bought “millions” of devices equipped with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, the company said, and the third-generation Fire TV Stick enabled with an Alexa voice remote proved the “best-selling product across all of Amazon worldwide.” Shares of Amazon were ahead 1.9% in Thursday’s premarket action.

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