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Step Aside Black Friday - Meet Prime Day
(NASDAQ:AMZN) - More than 90 years ago, holiday shopping found its
official start the Friday after Thanksgiving, eventually becoming Black
Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year. Over the years, Amazon has
helped make Black Friday (News - Alert) even more of a global online shopping
phenomenon. Next week, Amazon turns 20 and on the eve of its birthday,
the company introduces Prime Day, a global shopping event, offering more
deals than Black Friday, exclusively for Prime members in the U.S.,
U.K., Spain, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Canada and Austria. On
Wednesday, July 15, new and existing members in the U.S. will find deals
starting at midnight, with new deals starting as often as every ten
minutes. They can shop thousands of Lightning Deals, seven popular Deals
of the Day and receive unlimited fast, free shipping. Not a Prime
member? To participate in Prime Day, Amazon customers can sign up for a
30-day free trial of Prime at amazon.com/primeday.
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Jeff "Weirdo" Jacobson interprets #PrimeLiving in Seattle to celebrate Prime Day. Prime members can go to amazon.com/primeliving to share their own #PrimeLiving moments. (Photo: Business Wire)
"Prime Day is a one-day only event filled with more deals than Black
Friday, exclusively for Prime members around the globe. Members tell us
every day how much they love Prime and we will keep making it better,"
said Greg Greeley, Vice President Amazon Prime. "If you're not already a
Prime member, you'll want to join so you don't miss out on one of the
biggest deals extravaganzas in the world."
Shop Prime Day Deals from Anywhere
Prime members can shop across dozens of categories including
electronics, toys, movies, clothing, patio, lawn and garden, ports and
outdoor items and more. Members will enjoy deals on items perfect for
summer adventures, their to-do list, family road trips, back to school
supplies, and everyday essentials. Prime members can shop on any device,
including smartphones and tablets and find deals anytime, anywhere.
#PrimeLiving Photo Contest
Prime offers fast, free shipping on millions of items, unlimited
streaming of movies, TV shows, music and books as well as unlimited
secure photo storage with Prime Photos. Today, Amazon also invites
members to experience Prime Photos, one of the latest benefits and enter
for a chance to win a $10,000 Amazon Gift Card in each Prime-eligible
country, by participating in the #PrimeLiving Photo Contest. What is
#PrimeLiving? Members frequently reveal how much they love Prime. Now,
Amazon is providing members a forum to share how Prime helps enable some
of their happy moments. Did you save enough time today to take the dog
for a long walk? Did you finish your shopping while lounging at the
beach? Did you create a family film festival at home? Did you find the
perfect playlist to create a summer dance party? After a long week of
work, did you still arrive in the perfect outfit with just the right
gift? Take a snap, capture the moment. Members simply sign into Prime
Photos between July 6 and July 15 to submit a photo on the contest page amazon.com/primeliving.
Photos will be selected and featured daily on Amazon's social channels
leading up to Prime Day. One winner will be selected in each country
based on the image that most creatively captures a happy moment of
#PrimeLiving. Winners will also be invited to have their photos become
screen savers on Amazon Fire TV.
Celebrating Prime Day
To launch the photo contest and celebrate Prime Day, local artists were
commissioned in Prime-eligible countries, with locations ranging from
Toronto to Milan to Seattle to Berlin, to create their interpretations
of #PrimeLiving. These artists fully immersed themselves in Prime and
then created public art that could be enjoyed locally as well as used by
customers as inspiration for the #PrimeLiving Photo Contest. Find their
work in an embeddable link here.
More to Prime
Amazon Prime is an annual membership program for $99 a year that offers
customers unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on more than 20 million items
across all categories, unlimited Free Same-Day Delivery on more than a
million items in 14 metro areas, unlimited streaming of tens of
thousands of movies and TV episodes, more than one million songs, more
than one thousand playlists and hundreds of stations with Prime Music,
early access to select Lightning Deals all year long, free secure,
unlimited photo storage in Amazon Cloud Drive with Prime Photos and
access to more than 800,000 books to borrow with the Kindle Owners'
Lending Library. In addition, Prime members in Atlanta, Austin,
Baltimore, Brooklyn, Dallas, Manhattan, Miami, and London receive one
and two hour delivery on a selection of tens of thousands of everyday
essentials with the dedicated Prime Now mobile app. Not a member? Start
a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/primeday.
About Amazon
Amazon.com
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The company is guided by four
principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for
invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking.
Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime,
Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire
phone, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo are some of the products
and services pioneered by Amazon.
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