Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever"

In a refreshing break from all the doom and gloom, Amazon.com is calling this holiday season their best ever. Reporting a 44 percent rise in the number of items sold, they are refusing to provide actual dollar amounts, so it is still a very subjective measurement. "Amazon customers ordered more than 6.3 million items on Dec. 15, compared with roughly 5.4 million on its peak day last year, the company said. It shipped more than 5.6 million products on its best day, a 44 percent rise over 2007, when it shipped about 3.9 million on its busiest day. The company did not provide dollar figures and wouldn't say whether the average value of orders had changed, and the jumps it reported Friday are in line with increases Amazon has seen since it started releasing the figures in 2002."

Comments

Begs the question

[emeraldemon]

Why Amazon? Is it just name recognition? They're probably the largest online retailer. Are they "the online walmart" like the article says?

Re:Begs the question - not so much

[MightyYar]

Aren't you guys tired of doing this on here? The fight is over, the meaning has changed. Get on with your lives.

Re:Begs the question - not so much

[MightyYar]

But that's not how language works. "Educated people" can speak any way they like, but if the rabble poaches a cool-sounding phrase from you, why do you get all up in a huff? Or is that part of the whole elitist thing? Being huffy?

Anyway, in most cases context can be used to discern meaning. Surely if you big language aristocrats can handle homophones and words with multiple meanings, you can tell what someone means through context?

Re:Money is tight

[TheCarp]

Oh yah... now think for a second... if a random sampling of nearly everything I look at comes out at price variances of up to 100%.... how much of your money do you think you can "reclaim" just by being a better shopper? How much of a pay raise does that equate to?

-Steve