Wal-Mart offers a direct challenge to Amazon’s event, but several online retailers are doing variations on one-time sales.
On the day before Amazon Inc. holds its much-ballyhooed Prime Day, other online retailers held limited-time or flash sales of their own, paying no mind, at least publicly, to the top online retailer’s event.
Consumer electronics chain Best Buy Co. Inc., No. 14 in the Internet Retailer 2015 Top 500, took a veiled shot at Amazon on its Facebook page when it announced its own 24-hour sale on Tuesday, proclaiming in its online promotions: “No membership needed for these deals.”
