Customers can update Deal Preferences for a chance to win a $1,000
Amazon.com Gift Card
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 1, 2012--
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that AmazonLocal, a
website offering customers savings from select businesses in their
neighborhood and nationwide, is celebrating its first birthday by giving
away $5,000 in Amazon.com Gift Cards.
From June 1-15, 2012, customers can enter for a chance to win one of
five $1,000 Amazon.com Gift Cards in the AmazonLocal Birthday
Sweepstakes* by signing in at AmazonLocal.com and updating one Deal
Preference at https://local.amazon.com/account/preferences
to improve their email offers. Customers can also be automatically
entered into the sweepstakes by updating a Deal Preference directly on a
deal page at AmazonLocal.com.
AmazonLocal Deal Preferences, which launched on April 26, 2012, lets
customers decide what kinds of deals they want to receive by email --
from Restaurants and Travel to Shopping and Health & Beauty. To date,
the most-preferred category is “American Restaurants” and the
least-preferred is “Weight Loss.”
“We launched AmazonLocal a year ago for customers in Boise, upholding
Amazon’s long-held tradition of delivering relevant products to
customers, and today, we’re providing deals to AmazonLocal customers in
109 regions across the United States,” said Mike George, president of
AmazonLocal. “We’re growing up fast, and we’re grateful to our customers
for their support during the first year. In the year ahead, we look
forward to providing customers with more one-of-a-kind deals and fun new
promotions like our birthday sweepstakes.”
As part of the first-birthday celebration, customers in Boise, Idaho,
AmazonLocal’s launch region, will be treated to a $1 deal for $5 of ice
cream, milk shakes and more. Goody’s Soda Fountain in Boise will offer
customers the celebratory deal at AmazonLocal starting on June 2,
exactly one year after it offered its first deal at AmazonLocal.
Since its launch in June 2011, AmazonLocal has expanded rapidly across
the country, opening in its 100th region after only 10
months. The service is now available to customers in 109 regions in 29
states, including the top 15 U.S. cities by population. Kindle 3G and
Kindle Touch customers across the United States also are able to receive
AmazonLocal offers on their devices. On average, AmazonLocal has saved
customers 65 percent off list prices in 2012.
In August 2011, AmazonLocal began offering deals from Amazon-affiliated
sites including Amazon.com, Wag.com, Soap.com and YoYo.com. Customers
have enjoyed several popular national deals from affiliated sites since
then, including:
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A deal on certified refurbished Kindle with Special Offers
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A $10 Amazon.com Gift Card deal for $5, which sold 1 million units in
just over 17 hours on March 20
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A $3.99 deal for Norah Jones’ new album “Little Broken Hearts” on
Amazon MP3
*Limit one entry per person/e-mail address. Must be a legal resident of
the 50 United States or D.C., 18 years of age or older. See the
sweepstakes Official Rules at www.local.amazon.com/announce/birthday-sweepstakes.
There is no purchase necessary to enter.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most
compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced
electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright
sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an
easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages,
search, shop, and take notes – still with all the benefits of the most
advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line
e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch,
with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the
Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and
web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud,
Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon’s new revolutionary cloud-accelerated
web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core
processor.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
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www.amazon.de,www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca,
www.amazon.cn,
www.amazon.it,
and www.amazon.es.
As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms
include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context
indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More
information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's
financial results is included in Amazon.com's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most
recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
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