Amazon Recorded Boom Sales during Holiday Shopping

Amazon.com said that this holiday season marked its best season ever and the company admitted that Garmin GPS is among the items that did the magic. Amazon said on Wednesday that its peak day this holiday season was Monday, December 10, when its customers ordered more than 5.4 million items—62.5 items per second. As for GPS unit sales, the company didn't put a number on the units sold, but suggested that if they were lined up together, they would stretch from New York to Philadelphia—81 miles as the crow flies. Assuming an average width of 3.5 to 4 inches, that's between 1.28 million and 1.47 million units. While admitting the role of Garmin GPS being the among the top sellers in consumer electronics, along with Canon PowerShot digital Elph cameras and Samsung LCD high-definition televisions. Some other notable stats from Amazon.com's holiday season sales: • It sold Nintendo Wii systems at approximately 17 per second—while the immensely popular gaming consoles were in stock. • It sold enough Hannah Montana wigs to outfit the entire audience at her December 20 show in Providence, Rhode Island. • Top sellers in video games were "Super Mario Galaxy" and "Call of Duty 4." • Top sellers in DVDs included "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," "Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End." • Top sellers in books included "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, "The Dangerous Book for Boys" by Conn and Hal Iggulden and "I Am America (And So Can You)" by Stephen Colbert. • In music, top sellers included "Noel" by Josh Groban, "Raising Sand" by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and "As I Am" by Alicia Keys.