{"id":4480,"date":"2021-05-14T16:19:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2021-05-14T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T20:19:40","slug":"amazon-moves-its-prime-day-sale-to-the-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/amazon-moves-its-prime-day-sale-to-the-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Moves Its Prime Day Sale To The Second Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazon recently announced the shift of its Prime Day sales date to the second quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made during the first quarter earnings conference call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Amazon&#8217;s Prime Day sales traditionally take place in the third quarter, it has been delayed until the fourth quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Amazon unveiling a revenue target for the second quarter to be etween $110-116 billion, company executives revealed in a conference call with the press the Prime Day will take place in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting on the planned Prime Day move, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky said: &#8220;We are excited to announce that we will hold the 2-day savings event during the second quarter. Prime Day is also a great opportunity for our selling partners to reach more customers and will make supporting small businesses a big focus again this year. We&#8217;ll have more to share on Prime Day, including the event dates a bit later this quarter.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/amazon-prime-day-moves-to-q2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon recently announced the shift of its Prime Day sales date to the second quarter. The announcement was made during the first quarter earnings conference call. While Amazon&#8217;s Prime Day sales traditionally take place in the third quarter, it has been delayed until the fourth quarter of 2020. With Amazon unveiling a revenue target for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-amazon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}