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• Amazon announced today their 2008 holiday season was its best ever, with over 6.3 million items ordered worldwide on the peak day, Dec. 15. Amazon proved that they were recession proof throug this holiday season. I think the reason being is the growth rate  at which people are shopping online to save time is greater than the decline in people’s wallets this season. Here are the stats from Nov.15 to Dec.19th

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  • Amazon shipped to over 210 countries.
  • 72.9 items per second.
  • On the peak day this season, Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 5.6 million units.
  • 99 percent of orders in time to meet holiday deadlines worldwide
  • Amazon.com sold enough “Breaking Dawn” books that stacked end to end they would reach the summit of Mt. Everest eight times.
  • During the period from Nov. 15 – Dec. 10, Amazon sold one copy of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 every 2.5 minutes.
  • Amazon Grocery sold enough coffee to give each resident of the highly caffeinated city of Seattle a cup per day for two months.
  • Amazon sold enough Casio G-Shock watches to outfit every Kanye West fan attending the 2008 Glow in the Dark Tour concert at Madison Square Garden, N.Y.
  • Amazon sold enough Coldplay CDs that laid side by side they’d stretch from Seattle to Violet Hill (a street in London and the album’s first single) and more than halfway back.
  • Amazon sold enough Munchkin Mozart Magic Cubes to fill every seat in the Sydney Opera House five times over.
  • Amazon sold enough Wild Planet Hyper Dash games that the total weight of sets sold is over 81,000 pounds — almost the size of two 747 aircrafts.
  • Amazon sold enough Spalding basketballs to fill three C-130 cargo planes.
  Best Sellers Include:
  • Eyeclops night vision stealth goggles, Blokus classic board game and Wild Planet’s Hyper Dash.
  • Samsung’s 52-inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV
  • iPod touch 8 GB 
  •  Acer Aspire One 8.9-inch netbook, sapphire blue.
  • Nintendo Wii 
  • Razor A Kick scooter
  • Victorinox Swiss Army Champion Plus pocket knife and Klean Kanteen sports cap.
  • 14-karat white gold Journey Curve pendant
  • Invicta men’s Pro Diver stainless-steel watch
  • Sephora Brand Ultimate Blockbuster – collector’s edition makeup palette.
  •  ”Wall-E,” and  ”The Dark Knight” for Blu-ray 
  • “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” by J.K. Rowling 
  • “Fearless” by Taylor Swift”

 
More info can be found at the official press release here:

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