Given how the coronavirus pandemic reformed customer attitudes to online shopping as essential, we can reasonably expect that Amazon will make out like a bandit with its Prime Day 2020 deals bonanza.
What is Amazon Prime Day? Well, it’s an annual shopping event for Amazon’s coveted Prime subscribers who, in exchange for an annual fee, are getting free fast shipping and media subscriptions, as well as said exclusive deals and discounts access.
When is Amazon Prime Day 2020 postponed for?
- Prime Day 2020 date: October 5 (Monday)
- Prime Day 2019 date: July 15 (Monday)
- Prime Day 2018 date: July 16 (Monday)
We are talking space previously occupied by former retail giants like Sears, J.C. Penney, etc., which ironically were loaded with debt and folded just recently, freeing up space for Amazon to move in and turn the brick and mortar shopping palaces into brick and mortar fulfillment centers.The space will be used for extra warehousing, order fulfillment and distribution centers so that Amazon can get those Prime Day 2020 deals to you even faster and with less hassle.
When is the Amazon Prime Day 2020 start date? It would be Monday, October 5. After all, Prime Day 2019 started on Monday, July 15, while the previous year Prime Day 2018 fell on Monday, July 16. You catch the drift, but if the reports are correct, Amazon will be postponing Prime Day 2020 by three months, not one or two, so an October 5 start date sounds entirely plausible.
How do you shop on Prime Day and what are the best Amazon deals?
As the name of the shopping fiesta suggests, in order to qualify for the deals, you have to be an Amazon Prime member, but if you don’t want the membership fee and all the perks that come with it, you could just cancel before the 30-day trial period has ended.
Here’s how and when to shop on Amazon Prime Day 2020 to get the best deals and discounts on TVs, phones, games, and all else:
4. Shop early, make a list, and fulfill orders quickly, as last year plenty of items ran out in the first few hours, and Amazon Prime Day 2020 will be even less of an exception, considering the stocking and shipping issues that the coronavirus lockdown induced.
What were the best-selling devices on Amazon Prime Day? In America, Amazon’s top-selling Prime Day items were the LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, the Instant Pot DUO60 and 23andMe health and ancestry kits, but the company also moved hundreds of thousands of laptops, TVs and headphones.
Best-selling Amazon Prime Day items by country
Why did the coronavirus pandemic delay Amazon Prime Day 2020?
While the shelter-at-home state orders that arose from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic boosted the Amazon share price and made CEO Jeff Bezos even richer, the online shopping spree also brought immense challenges to the supply chains of, well, everything, not only toilet paper.
Heck, in Amazon France was even banned from stocking up on and delivering anything but essential goods, and barely a Bluetooth speaker could come by, unless wrapped in toilet paper. We kid, but the unprecedented pressure on Amazon’s warehouse workers and delivery drivers has forced the company to postpone the Amazon Prime Day launch until its warehouses and delivery lines are ready.
It was just last week that Amazon started allowing its army of third-party seller to ship non-essentials to its warehouses with no stock limits, and it will take a while until the space is filled with items that are not directly related to surviving a coronavirus pandemic stay-at-home order.
Even when the Amazon non-essential warehouse stock goes back to pre-crisis levels, that still leaves the issues with packing, shipping, and delivery. Amazon Prime subscribers were first to learn that the annual membership fee they pay isn’t pandemic-proof, and Amazon still hasn’t returned to its one-day shipping policy for those members.
After all, the best Amazon Prime Day 2020 deals can’t have the six-day shipping delay that orders experienced in March, and not even the three-day delay they are suffering now on average, and that is why Prime Day 2020 is getting postponed for October 5 or thereabouts.
