Keep Up With Amazon & Walmart Seller News – 07.19.2023

  First Day of Prime Day was the Single Largest Sales Day Ever on Amazon, Helping Make This the Biggest Prime Day Event Ever

• Amazon offered more deals than any past Prime Day event
• Prime members saved more this year than any other Prime Day event, saving more than $2.5 billion across millions of deals and getting exclusive access to the lowest prices on Amazon
• This Prime Day, members shopped deals beyond the Amazon store using Buy with Prime

  Amazon deliveries made by Rivian EVs surge to 150M

• Amazon has delivered over 150 million packages using Rivian’s electric vehicles
• Amazon placed an order for 100,000 custom electric vehicles from Rivian in 2019 in an effort to decarbonize its transportation fleet as part of its larger sustainability goals.

  Large graffiti painted on the street outside Amazon’s Seattle HQ targets company as ‘Prime polluter.’

• Amazon and CEO Andy Jassy were the targets of a large graffiti message painted on Sixth Avenue outside the company’s Seattle headquarters on Thursday.
• The stenciled message across two lanes of the street was addressed to Jassy and read, “AMAZON: PRIME POLLUTER. #DELIVER CHANGE.”

  Walgreens closing eCommerce distribution center in Illinois

• The company will lay off 393 employees on or around Aug. 28, according to a WARN notice.

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