Amazon reports record holiday season as consumers shop for clothes, gadgets

Best sellers included Bose headphones and Carhartt clothes

Amazon.com Inc. reported a record-breaking holiday season as shoppers loaded their online baskets with items from Echo speakers to Calvin Klein clothes, suggesting consumer optimism isn’t being deterred by a tumbling stock market.

The internet retailer said “tens of millions of people worldwide” signed up for its Prime service, which offers free two-day shipping on millions of items as well as video and music streaming. In the U.S. alone, more than 1 billion items were shipped for free using Prime, Amazon said in a statement Wednesday.

The U.S. was already headed into a blow-out Christmas shopping spree, as Americans are