Amazon launches Amazon Haul discount storefront
Amazon is unveiling Amazon Haul in its shopping app and mobile website.
The retailer is touting Amazon Haul as "a place for customers to discover affordable fashion, home, lifestyle, electronics and other products with ultra-low prices and typical delivery times of one to two weeks."
“Finding great products at very low prices is important to customers, and we continue to explore ways that we can work with our selling partners so they can offer products at ultra-low prices,” said Dharmesh Mehta, vice president of worldwide selling partner services at Amazon. “Amazon Haul aims to help make shopping for fashion, home, lifestyle, electronics, and other products even more fun, easy, and affordable, all backed by Amazon’s A-to-z product guarantee so customers can shop with confidence that the products they’re purchasing are safe, authentic, and in the condition expected. It’s early days for this experience, and we’ll continue to listen to customers as we refine and expand it in the weeks and months to come.”
Amazon Haul features its own search, cart and checkout option. All items are priced $20 or less with the majority priced $10 and under, and some items as low as $1. The retailer said customers can enjoy even more savings when they add more items to a single order, with 5% off orders $50 and over and 10% off orders $75 or more.
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Customers can find Amazon Haul in the Amazon Shopping app by searching “Haul” in the search bar, navigating to Amazon Haul from the main menu icon, or by going to www.amazon.com/haul on their mobile device browser to shop a wide selection of items with "crazy low prices," Amazon said. Orders of $25 or more qualify for free delivery in one to two weeks, with a fee of $3.99 on orders under $25.
For any item a customer chooses not to keep, Amazon offers free returns on all Amazon Haul purchases over $3.00 within 15 days of delivery, and provides customers with convenience and returns at more than 8,000 drop-off locations across the U.S. including Amazon Lockers, Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Markets, UPS and Staples.
Amazon said it screens the products sellers offer in Haul so customers can be confident they’ll receive products that are safe, authentic and compliant with applicable regulations. All items available in Amazon Haul are covered by Amazon’s A-to-z Guarantee, which protects customers when they buy any item in its store and covers product condition, including if the item is damaged, defective or not as described.