Internet retailer reveals most popular items among Prime subscribers.
Amazon Prime customers went bananas for the e-commerce giant’s fast delivery option in 2018. Literally.
Amazon Prime subscribers, who pay $119, £79 or AU$59 annually for perks such as free shipping and access to music, movies and TV shows, purchased more than 2 billion items on the site with one-day or faster delivery, the internet retailer said Sunday. And the most popular item on the speedy Amazon Prime Now service — was bananas.
Those tidbits were among Amazon’s Best of Prime 2018, in which the retailer showcased some of the most popular items among its Amazon Prime subscribers. Prime is one of the company’s most important businesses, helping build loyal, repeat customers who tend to spend about twice as much with Amazon as do non-Prime shoppers.
Among the fastest Amazon Prime Now deliveries clocked this year were a Nintendo NES Classic delivered to a customer in Kirkland, Washington, and a High Sierra Loop Backpack delivered to a customer in Charlotte, North Carolina — both in 9 minutes after the order was placed.
