[LINK] All Things Digital: Amazon Using Local Deals to Boost Interest in Affiliated Sites

[Antony Barry]

Amazon is now operating a local daily deals site across 30 cities in 10 states, as of today including New York City.

It launched its first AmazonLocal site in June, and has been able to expand quickly through its investment in LivingSocial, which sells many of the deals to spas, restaurants and other services in those cities on behalf of Amazon.

Today, Amazon announced that in addition to local deals, it will also be sweetening the pot by offering special discounts from Amazon-affiliated sites, including Amazon.com; MyHabit.com, which offers flash sales on apparel and home decor; endless.com, a designer apparel site; and 6pm.com, a discounted apparel site operated by Amazon-owned Zappos. ...


http://allthingsd.com/20110825/amazon-using-local-deals-to-boost-interest-in-affiliated-sites/ 
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