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Speaker 1: So what were the hottest sellers on Amazon Prime Day?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know a lot of talk about Amazon

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Speaker 1: Prime Day, but it is a big shopping event, and

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Speaker 1: to be honest, there's not much else going on right

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Speaker 1: now in the tech world. So let's talk about Amazon

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Speaker 1: Prime Day. As it usually does, Amazon sends out a

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Speaker 1: bunch of details about the most shopped for items on

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Speaker 1: Prime Day, along with their typical so and so was

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Speaker 1: purchased every second. It makes you realize just how big

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Speaker 1: this company is and how many people are buying on

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Speaker 1: the site around the world. So here are the results

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Speaker 1: of Prime Day twenty eighteen, which Amazon says is the

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Speaker 1: biggest shopping event now in Amazon history, surpassing sales on

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Speaker 1: Cyber Monday and Black Friday and even last year's Prime Day.

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Speaker 1: Prime members bought more than one hundred million products. The

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Speaker 1: top sellers worldwide overall the Fire TV stick with Alexa

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Speaker 1: Remote and Echo Dot. This was also the first year

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Speaker 1: that Whole Foods was included in the sales. The best

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Speaker 1: selling deal there was organic strawberries. Now for some top

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Speaker 1: level highlights, two Toshiba four K Fire TVs are now

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Speaker 1: the best selling TVs in Amazon history. That makes a

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Speaker 1: lot of sense because you can get one of them

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Speaker 1: for under three hundred dollars. That was an amazing deal.

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Speaker 1: The Ring Video doorbell also had its best day ever.

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Speaker 1: The Ring Video Doorbell Pro sold out. Keep in mind,

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Speaker 1: a lot of these Amazon branded products do really well

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Speaker 1: on Prime Day because they get the most visibility on

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Speaker 1: the Amazon site plus to the most familiar brands, and

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Speaker 1: people have their eye on them, so that's why they

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Speaker 1: do so well. Amazon doesn't release actual sales numbers, but

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Speaker 1: this year they did give us some interesting clues. Amazon

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Speaker 1: says that members purchased more than three hundred thousand instant

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Speaker 1: pots and one hundred and fifty thousand Life straws personal

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Speaker 1: water filters. But these also happen to be the two

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Speaker 1: top selling devices minus Amazon's owned products in the United States,

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Speaker 1: so that's really interesting. The top selling product in the

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Speaker 1: United States after all the Amazon products, was three hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand units, then one hundred and fifty thousand units of

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Speaker 1: the Life straw, so that gives us an idea of

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Speaker 1: just how many things are selling. Also in the US,

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Speaker 1: a DNA test was also a top seller and then

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Speaker 1: you take a look at other countries around the world

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Speaker 1: and it gets kind of interesting. In Spain, a sixty

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Speaker 1: four gigabyte memory card was tops. In Singapore it was

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Speaker 1: Coke zero and Plato. In the Netherlands who participated for

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Speaker 1: the first time in Prime Day, it was a smart

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Speaker 1: plug that was the top seller, and in Japan it

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Speaker 1: was laundry detergent and wig protein, in India a Red

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Speaker 1: me Y two smartphone salt and a power bank, and

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Speaker 1: in China a Sonic Care toothbrush and moisturizing foundation. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: even with shoppers having some issues accessing the site early

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Speaker 1: on Prime Day, still a major success, and I expect

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Speaker 1: to see other online retailers attempt to copy it. Even yesterday,

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Speaker 1: we did see other retailers like Target and Walmart try

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Speaker 1: to capture some of the momentum by having their own sales,

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Speaker 1: but nothing in comparison to what Amazon is doing. Amazon

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Speaker 1: has over one hundred million paid Prime members around the world.

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Speaker 1: And here is the craziest stat of all. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: come from Amazon, but it comes from a report from eMarketer. Ready,

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Speaker 1: Amazon now commands about forty nine percent of all retail

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Speaker 1: dollars spent online, so if a dollar is being spent online,

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Speaker 1: forty nine cents of that is going to Amazon. That's insane.

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Speaker 1: The next closest competitor is eBay. They get about seven

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Speaker 1: percent of online sales. But here is the craziest part

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Speaker 1: of all. Amazon still only gets about five percent of

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Speaker 1: all retail sales. We're talking online and off, So when

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Speaker 1: you think about growth potential for this company, there is

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Speaker 1: still a long ways to go. As for me, I

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Speaker 1: must be getting older because the only thing that I

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Speaker 1: bought on Prime Day was a two pack of smart

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Speaker 1: air filters from my home air conditioning system. They were

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Speaker 1: thirty percent off, so definitely a Prime Day deal. But

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Speaker 1: I mean I could have found some other stuff, I guess,

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Speaker 1: but I felt pretty good my purchase because I didn't

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Speaker 1: get anything that I don't need. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro rich on tech dot tv for links

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Speaker 1: that I mentioned here, I'll talk to you real soon.