This Year's 12 Top-Selling Items on Amazon Prime Day

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Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) was rewarded with an overwhelming response to its annual Prime Day sales extravaganza this year. The company took the sale global this year and expanded the amount of time allotted for the sale, beating last year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined and generating 60% more sales this year than last.

So what were shoppers buying up like there was no tomorrow? Business Insider compiled a list of the top items its readers purchased on Prime Day, and they pretty closely matched the items people around the world were purchasing, too.

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