The school year is only just finishing across the nation, but Amazon.com is making sure parents already are thinking about back-to-school shopping.Spending for new clothes and school supplies used to begin in August, ahead of the new academic year.Now, retailers are using Amazon’s midsummer Prime Day as the starting gun for their back-to-school promotions.
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