Amazon says holiday shopping broke records this year

By Jordyn Holman, Bloomberg
Amazon.com said its holiday season this year was “record-breaking” with billions of items shipped and “tens of millions” of Amazon devices like the Echo Dot sold.
The e-commerce giant said that 5 million new customers started Prime free trials or paid memberships globally, while the number of items that were delivered with one-day or same-day shipping quadrupled compared with last holiday season. Independent third-party sellers, meanwhile, sold