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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Anne d'Innocenzio

Customers seeking deals gave Amazon's Prime Day and competing sales a solid start

Amazon Prime Day - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The first day of Amazon's Prime Day event and competing retail sales that kicked off on Tuesday drove solid online spending compared to a year earlier, according to two data sources.

Adobe Digital Insights, which tracks visits to e-commerce sites, reported that U.S. consumers spent $7.9 billion at online stores on Tuesday, a 9.9% increase from the comparable day last year.

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