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Amazon representatives reported they plan to make their “Prime Day” sale an annual event after it led to a sales surge and “hundreds of thousands” of new signups for its $99 annual Prime loyalty program.

Amazon representatives reported they plan to make their “Prime Day” sale an annual event after it led to a sales surge and “hundreds of thousands” of new signups for its $99 annual Prime loyalty program.

Amazon tied Wednesday’s, July 15, sale to its 20th anniversary. The company promoted the sale for weeks ahead of time, promising there would be more deals than during the busy winter holiday shopping season. Some shoppers took to social media and elsewhere to complain about the types of sales they were seeing and their limited nature.

Nonetheless, Amazon said Thursday that in the U.S. and nine countries around the world that offer the Prime program, shoppers ordered 398 items per second, surpassing the rate of ordering on Black Friday, the busy shopping day after Thanksgiving. It said worldwide order growth more than quadrupled over the same day last year, which is typically a sluggish sales day, and rose 18 percent more than Black Friday 2014, according to an article by Voz Iz Neis.

“Going into this, we weren’t sure whether Prime Day would be a one-time thing or if it would become an annual event,” said Greg Greeley, Amazon Prime vice president. “After yesterday’s results, we’ll definitely be doing this again.”

In the U.S., TVs, Bose headphones, Rubbermaid storage sets, pressure cookers, Roomba vacuum cleaning robots, the unrated Blu-ray version of “50 Shades of Grey” and Megular microfiber towels were top sellers. Abroad, a Blu-ray trilogy of “Lord of the Rings” and a Lenovo notebook computer were popular, according to an Amazon report.

ChannelAdvisor, which tracks sales by third-party sellers on Amazon, said sales jumped 93 percent on Wednesday compared with a year ago in the U.S. and rose 53 percent in Europe. It said sellers achieved 97 percent of the total amount of sales generated on Black Friday and 60 percent of the sales volume on Cyber Monday.

The sale spurred other retailers to try “Christmas in July”-type sales as well, most notably Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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