300 million products sold during Prime Day

More than 300 million items were sold during Prime Day 2022 last week, which according to Amazon makes it the biggest event in the company’s history.

From these deals, Amazon said shoppers saved more than US$1.7 billion dollars, the most saved for a Prime Day event.

This year was the biggest Prime Day event for Amazon's selling partners, most of whom are small and medium-sized businesses, whose sales growth in Amazon’s store outpaced Amazon's retail business.

Customers spent over US$3 billion on more than 100 million small business items included in the Support Small Businesses to Win Big sweepstakes.

Doug Herrington, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Stores said, “Prime Day is a celebration of our Prime members, who look forward to this event every year, and we’re thrilled to have delivered incredible savings to them once again.

“This special event is made possible because of the support of our employees, vendors, and sellers, and I want to give a big thank you to all of them for making this a Prime Day to remember.”

According to Amazon, Prime members worldwide purchased more than 100,000 items per minute during this year's Prime Day event. Some of the best-selling categories worldwide this Prime Day were Amazon Devices, Consumer Electronics, and Home.

Commenting on the Prime Day success, Andy Jassy, CEO and president at Amazon said on a Linkedin post, “Think customers really enjoyed Prime Day ‘22—our biggest ever with 300M+ items sold and US$1.7B+ saved by Prime members. Prime Day is such a massive team endeavour—thank you, thank you, thank you to our teams, 3P sellers and delivery partners for your incredible work.”

Customers supported small businesses in the three-week lead-up to Prime Day, generating more than $3 billion in sales for small businesses included in the Support Small Businesses to Win Big sweepstakes.

Customers purchased more than 100 million small business items in the three weeks leading up to Prime Day.

Earlier this year, Amazon came out relatively unscathed from the past year's supply chain issues reporting an increase in sales and income for its annual earnings, but still felt the pinch with its quarterly results.