Amazon plans to stage Prime Day, its annual sales jamboree, in June after delaying the event last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Recode reported that Amazon is currently planning to hold Prime Day in the middle or latter half of June. Last year, Amazon moved Prime Day, which normally occurs in July, to October. That was in large part because a pandemic-related surge in online shopping was...
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