Amazon Grabs 29% of Online Orders Ahead of Christmas

Amazon reportedly saw its investment in faster delivery bear fruit just before Christmas.In the two weeks leading up to the holiday, the tech giant garnered 29% of global volume of online orders, Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Jan. 4), citing data on 55 million orders from package-tracking app Route. That 29% was up from 21% during Thanksgiving week.“It’s a pretty sharp shift in how consumers shop,” Michael Yamartino, Route’s chief executive officer, told Bloomberg. “The top priority in the days leading ...