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Amazon sees record-breaking holiday shopping season amid pandemic

Amazon is boasting that it had the largest holiday shopping season to date as in-store shopping plummets amid the pandemic. The online retail giant revealed that independent sellers on its platform saw over $4.8 billion USD (about $6.2 billion CAD) in sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday worldwide, depicting a 60 per cent increase from last year.

The company says that 71,000 small and medium-sized businesses worldwide surpassed $100,000 USD (about $129,000 CAD) in sales so far.