An EU antitrust investigation and U.S. lawmakers calling on the Department of Labor to look into workplace safety are probably not the headlines Amazon was hoping for the morning after its longest-ever Prime Day.
Nevertheless, the ecommerce platform was at the ready with a statement lauding the 48-hour sale as “the largest shopping event in Amazon history,” with more than 1 million deals and 175 million items purchased.
As usual, the platform shared little outside of cherrypicked stats, like how Prime members worldwide saved more than $1 billion throughout Prime Day, but it also said the two-day sale “surpassed the previous Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined.”
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