Amazon Prime Day Comes Amid Slowdown in Online Sales Growth

Amazon Prime Day Comes Amid Slowdown in Online Sales Growth
An Amazon Prime truck passes by a sign outside an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island, New York, on March 19, 2020. Kathy Willens/AP Photo
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Amazon is heading into its annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday much differently than how it entered the pandemic.

The company has long used the two-day event—one of its biggest all year—to lure people to its Prime membership, for which Amazon recently raised the price to $139 a year from $119 a year.