Amazon delivered more than 1.5bn products this holiday season as consumers chose online shopping over retail.
Online shopping reached new highs during 2020 and Amazon managed to deliver billions of products worldwide this holiday season during what is expected to be a record fourth fiscal quarter for the online retailer. The ecommerce giant has released a new blog post in which it revealed that it delivered more than 1.5bn toys, home products, beauty and personal care products and electronics to its customers all over the world. At the same time, third party sales on Amazon rose by more than 50 percent year-over-year worldwide. One of the reasons for this could be due to the fact that the company has absorbed more than $5bn in operational costs on behalf of independent sellers since the start of the pandemic. Amazon also recently announced that it would delay its move to raise merchant fees until June of next year with charges for its Fulfillment by Amazon service being put on hold for now.
