{"id":88504,"date":"2009-12-18T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-is-having-a-very-merry-christmas-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-18T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T14:41:00","slug":"amazon-is-having-a-very-merry-christmas-amzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/88504","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Is Having A Very Merry Christmas (AMZN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b228f030000000000087f14\" border=\"0\" alt=\"amazon warehouse\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Through December 16, same-store sales growth at large online retailers, including Amazon.com (AMZN), is up more that 15% year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>The sales firgures are according to Chase Paymentech&rsquo;s Pulse Index, a payments processor which handled ~50% of all Internet transactions in 2008, according to JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<p>Some other takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Online sales volume is up 25% y\/y. Says Imran:  &#8220;We view this as an indication of consumers&rsquo; increasing comfort with online shopping.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Average ticket sizes are down (~8% y\/y) but getting bigger by the day &#8212; down only 5% over the past two weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-is-having-a-very-merry-christmas-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/huge-kindle-sales-will-drive-amazon-to-the-moon-next-year-2009-12\">Huge Kindle Sales Will Drive Amazon To The Moon Next Year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazons-new-video-streaming-service-will-disrupt-the-cdn-industry-2009-12\">Amazon&#8217;s New Video Streaming Service Will Disrupt The CDN Industry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbiresearch.com\/amazon-likely-to-make-modest-profit-from-covey-deal-2009-12\">Amazon&#8217;s Latest eBook Deal Is A Watershed, Will Increase Pressure On Publishers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/AQlWBjqzw1g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through December 16, same-store sales growth at large online retailers, including Amazon.com (AMZN), is up more that 15% year-over-year. The sales firgures are according to Chase Paymentech&rsquo;s Pulse Index, a payments processor which handled ~50% of all Internet transactions in 2008, according to JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan. Some other takeaways: Online sales volume is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}