5 Ways Amazon Is Prepping For The Holiday Shopping Season

Amazon.com, Inc.AMZN

is celebrating the 2014 holiday shopping season with promos, experiments and a little hype for 2015. Numerous retailers plan to start their Black Friday sales even earlier this year (including

Best Buy Co Inc

, which will open at 5:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving), but you'd be hard-pressed to find a retailer that starts before Amazon. Click through the slideshow to see what Amazon has planned. Disclosure:

At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this slideshow.