Thank you.Yeah. Let me start with that second one. It's probably more tied to the addition of one-day shipping.And even if we didn't do as much one-day shipping as we've been doing post COVID, the costs of one-day shipping are already built into our structure. As I mentioned on our last earnings call, we began to see a significant increase in customer demand beginning in early March, and demand remained elevated throughout Q2.Strong early demand in groceries and consumable products continued into Q2, while demand increased during the quarter in our other major product categories like hardlines and softlines. This is Dave. So that's not going to help our usage growth in the short run, but it will help those customers save money.And we think that's the right thing to do, not only for their success and so they can come out of this in a better shape but also for the long-term health of our relationship with them as an AWS provider. Advertising and AWS were certainly a strong component of gross margin increases. We expect the majority of this capacity to come online in late Q3 and into Q4. Returns as of 07/31/2020. So what were areas where you thought you were going to spend more at the start of the year than you actually have now in the current 2020 plan? Customer usage remains strong, although growth varies across industries as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.Lastly, I'll touch upon our Q3 guidance, which we provided as part of our earnings release. Additionally, as a reminder, Q2 is typically our lightest volume quarter for the retail business. Amazon reported its second-quarter results after the closing bell on Thursday, trouncing earnings expectations and reporting double-digit revenue growth year over year. So that's a good sign that we're happy about, and we hope that that has long-term ramifications.Our next question comes from Ross Sandler with Barclays. Thank you for joining us today. We've changed over 150 process paths.We've instituted social distancing, cleaning, temperature taking, both with our warehouse employees and also our transportation employees. If there was any color on the state of affairs with either of those by geo or region of the world, that would be great.Sure, Eric. And I'm kind of being facetious, obviously, when I asked that.
So our fixed costs were leveraged to the hilt.
I would say they both went up. We've pushed video and devices and music and other things to those countries probably earlier in the life cycle than you would have seen in the U.S. Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes, and Market Data and Analysis. Thank you.I imagine you mean consumer business countries opening up.Yes. And that's been augmented by some new things like our Amazon cinema where we're having first run movies. And then on the 3Q guidance, you pushed Prime day for western markets into 4Q.So how much of the deceleration -- it's obviously a really strong number for 3Q, but the growth rate is decelerating a little bit. But what I also want to ask really is when you think about new investment areas, and at the top of the list, maybe some new international launches are really building out some of the markets that you've, like India, Brazil and Mexico or the business-to-business operations, like there's a ton of new investment areas, and it seems like the Amazon historically, and I'm sure it's the same now, would be using this kind of revenue surge and really investing aggressively in these new areas. (RTTNews) - Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) will host a conference call at 5:30 PM ET on July 30, 2020, to discuss Q2 20 earnings results. Existing Prime member renewal rates improved, and the Prime member growth rate accelerated both in the U.S. and worldwide.Our 3P sellers, who are largely comprised of small and medium-sized businesses, also stepped up to help make more selection available for customers. I'll give you the backlog number. We're extremely grateful to our employees across Amazon for continuously stepping up to meet the needs of customers. But during this time, I would say we've actually accelerated our ops investment.
So the Prime behavior for international Prime members, you guys have talked about how like in the 16, 17 countries, the overall service levels are a little bit behind, selection is a little bit behind.
Founded in 1993 by brothers Tom and David Gardner, The Motley Fool helps millions of people attain financial freedom through our website, podcasts, books, newspaper column, radio show, and premium investing services.Thank you for standing by. And then, Aaron, just on your second question on Zoox, I mean, there's not too much to say at this point. Amazon said online grocery sales tripled year-over-year in the second quarter and it increased grocery delivery capacity by more than 160%. Where are we in terms of the company getting the mix between essentials versus nonessentials right in terms of offering to customers?