Amazon experienced a “record-breaking” Thanksgiving weekend as other retailers struggled.
According to a <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/customers-drove-record-breaking-black-friday-through-cyber-monday-sales-on-amazon">blog post</a> from the company, the period between Black Friday and Cyber Monday saw high degrees of consumer activity in categories such as toys, apparel, and electronics:
<blockquote>Customers discover savings on Amazon during the holiday season—and every day. According to a recent study from independent analyst firm Profitero, Amazon had the lowest prices by an average of 14% compared to all major retailers across every category coming into the holidays.
Amazon is proud to make customers’ holiday celebrations easier by offering a wide selection of incredible deals and low prices with convenient delivery and pick-up options. Amazon also looks forward to delivering smiles through the rest of the holiday season and beyond. The holiday season — and every day of the year at Amazon — is made possible by our employees, delivery drivers, in-store staff, and the nearly two-million small and medium-sized businesses among our independent selling partners who continue to deliver a great shopping experience for our customers around the world.</blockquote>
Despite Amazon’s apparent success, other retailers lagged, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/30/amazon-touts-record-sales-amid-weak-start-to-holiday-shopping-season.html">CNBC</a>: 

<blockquote>U.S. shoppers spent $10.7 billion on Cyber Monday, according to data from Adobe Analytics, marking a 1.4% decline from year-ago levels. Black Friday online sales also fell slightly short of last year’s total, with retailers recording $8.9 billion in sales, Adobe said.
While shopping at physical stores rose substantially from last year, when the pandemic kept consumers glued to the couch, traffic was down 28% from 2019 levels, according to preliminary data from Sensormatic Solutions.</blockquote>
Citing another study, CNBC added that Amazon alone captured 17.7% of Black Friday dollars. More details about Amazon’s sales will be made public in the firm’s fourth-quarter earnings report, due for release early next year.
Despite its success in the retail space, Amazon has been accused of censoring conservative-leaning products. 
In September, the Heritage Foundation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazon-temporarily-censored-advertisement-for-new-book-critical-of-black-lives-matter">announced</a> that Amazon pulled promotions for the book “BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution” — a deep-dive by Heritage Senior Fellow Mike Gonzalez into the Black Lives Matter movement.
Amazon told Heritage that the book “no longer complies with our current Creative Acceptance Policies,” because: “Your ad contains book/s or content that is not allowed. Content that revolves around controversial or highly debated social topics is not permitted. Please remove this content from your ad.”
After Heritage officials appealed, Amazon <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/16/amazon-reverses-ad-ban-for-book-investigating-blm-cites-inaccurately-enforced-policies/">reversed</a> its decision, claiming that it had not properly enforced its own policies.
Meanwhile, a book version of Nikole Hannah-Jones’ “1619 Project” reached the top of Amazon’s bestseller list before its release. The New York Times journalist’s arguments, however, have been widely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pulitzer-prize-awarded-to-creator-of-widely-derided-1619-project-from-the-new-york-times">denounced</a> by historians who argued that it lacks nuance and ignores necessary context regarding the United States’ struggle with slavery.
“I was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution, but existed throughout history,” Pulitzer-Prize winning author and Princeton University history professor James McPherson explained.

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