Amazon Tops Customer Satisfaction Survey, Sells a Whopping 306 Items Per Sec on Peak Day

Amazon has released a large amount of data about online sales in 2012, with lots of factoids and vague figures for digital downloads, purchases, and product shipments. And the biggest piece of data revealed by the company was the number of packages it sold on the peak day of 2012.

On Nov. 26, Amazon sold 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories. That equates to a whopping 306 items per second, a new record, according to the company.

There isn’t much useful information for shareholder to determine how well Amazon is doing in regard to its digital purchases. But the new data did share lots of information about physical product shipments.

Here are some interesting facts and figures from Amazon’s Press Release:

• Cyber Monday 2012 was the biggest day ever for Kindle sales worldwide.
• Christmas Day was the biggest day ever for digital downloads across Amazon’s selection of over 23 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, books, audiobooks, and popular apps and games.
• The most gifted Kindle book during the holiday season was “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t,” by Nate Silver.
• 23 Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors each sold over 250,000 copies of their books in 2012.
• Sales of apps and games during the holiday period alone were up more than 250 percent over the same period last year.
• On its peak day, Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 15.6 million units across all product categories.
• On the peak day, Nov. 26, customers ordered more than 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is a record-breaking 306 items per second.
• Amazon customers purchased enough copies of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy by E.L. James, including “Fifty Shades of Grey,” “Fifty Shades Darker,” “Fifty Shades Freed” and the trilogy box set, to create a stack 445 times taller than the Space Needle.
• The cumulative weight of the “Bond 50” Blu-ray sets purchased by Amazon customers this holiday season would be 800 times the weight of Daniel Craig.
• Amazon customers purchased enough TVs to cover the field of every NFL stadium.
• Amazon customers purchased enough Angry Birds plush toys to stretch 285 times the height of the tallest tree in the world, located in California’s Redwood Forest.

Isn’t it amazing? Oops! Amazoning!