InternetAmazon Records Best Year Ever
Booming growth for the e-commerce pioneer, although apparently customers aren't quite as happy as they used to be.
While some areas of the retail landscape may be showing weakness this holiday season, the granddaddy of all e-commerce sites, Amazon, isn't among them. Amazon announced this week that 2007 was its best holiday shopping season in its entire 13-year history. According to the company, its busiest shopping day was not the much-vaunted Cyber Monday (the Monday following Thanksgiving) but a rather different Monday -- Dec. 10th. Amazon said that on that day, an average of 62.5 items sold every second. Among the popular items customers purchased from Amazon this Christmas was the Nintendo Wii, which Amazon said sold at a staggering rate of 17 per second -- when they were in stock. That's not to say that Amazon.com wasn't busy on days closer to Christmas. According to online metrics company Hitwise, Amazon.com proved to be the most-visited site for the week ending Dec. 22, 2007, leading Hitwise's index of the top 100 U.S. retail sites. Amazon also scored well in the Online Retail Satisfaction Index Report research study conducted by ForeSee Results and FGI Research. The report is the summation of 11,000 consumer surveys based on visits to the top 40 revenue-grossing retail Web sites. The e-commerce behemoth lost the top spot to DVD-by-mail company Netflix, which ForeSee and FGI said garnered a satisfaction score of 86. Amazon followed closely behind at 82. L.L. Bean and QVC tied for third, with a score of 80. Amazon's No. 2 ranking in the 2007 survey, represents... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]
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