ClaimsJeff Bezos

“Customers complete 28% of purchases on Amazon in three minutes or less, and half of all purchases are finished in less than 15 minutes.”

Jeff Bezos, Amazon Chair, shareholder letter 15 April 2021 2020 Letter to Shareholders (About Amazon)

Factual Economics and markets

Customers complete 28% of Amazon purchases in three minutes or less, and half of all purchases in under 15 minutes.

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Reasoning

Purchase-time metrics come from Amazon's internal data.

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Jeff Bezos, “Customers complete 28% of Amazon purchases in three minutes or less, and half of all purchases in under 15 minutes.” (said 15 April 2021). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_8e09b7b85ec6, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_8e09b7b85ec6

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