{"id":2496,"date":"2017-08-01T08:12:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T08:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brightpearl20.wpengine.com\/july-in-review-2017\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T09:08:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T09:08:16","slug":"july-in-review-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/blog\/july-in-review-2017","title":{"rendered":"July: In Review 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello and welcome to July: In Review<\/span><\/p>\n

June<\/a><\/span> | <\/span>May<\/a> | <\/span>April<\/a><\/p>\n

School\u2019s out for summer and so are the eager shoppers… That can only mean one thing, July has been and gone! It\u2019s time to review last month\u2019s hottest retail and ecommerce content.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sit back, relax and enjoy our pick of the top 4 retail news stories to hit the internet in July.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. News: <\/strong>Amazon Prime Day 2017<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Amazon<\/a> Prime Day has dominated the news this month both in the lead up, during and following the discount shopping event. Amazon has taken over the headlines with everything from <\/span>extending the event from 24 to 30 hours<\/span><\/a>, to how it was their <\/span>biggest sales day on record<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

We already know Prime Day was a huge success for Amazon so we wanted to focus on how independent retailers performed on Prime Day 2017. At Brightpearl, we have the privilege of working with over 1,200 SMEs so we took a look at how our retailers performed this year in comparison to 2016. The key findings showed:<\/span>
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