Amazon shipped over 5 billion items worldwide through Prime in 2017

It's a new year and evidently a great time for Amazon to tell us how many items the company shipped over the past 365 days. Amazon says today that more than 5 billion items were shipped through its Prime program last year, which includes free same-day, one-day, and two-day shipping. Amazon also says, "more new paid members joined Prime worldwide this year than any previous year."Alongside the new factoid, Amazon published a list of the most popular Prime items. Apparently people love to order b