My numbers didn’t include sales for Whole Foods Markets, which Amazon recently agreed to acquire. That distinction still belongs to Walmart, which brought in just shy of half a trillion dollars last year, 3.5-times larger than Amazon’s annual sales… But even then, Amazon makes up just 3.6% of the total.Īmazon isn’t even the largest retailer in the U.S. Stripping out auto, auto parts, and food services sales, annual retail revenue in the U.S. OK, Amazon doesn’t sell cars or operate restaurants (at least not yet). Amazon’s $135 billion accounted for a measly 2% of that. retail and food services sales last year were over $5.5 trillion. And not all of those revenue dollars are from its online retail business.Īmazon’s AWS cloud services business accounted for about 10% of its sales, meaning that Amazon’s retail business brought in closer to $135 billion. Over the trailing 12 months, Amazon has racked up $150 billion in sales. (I was delighted to see there’s a Game of Thrones edition, complete with a direwolf token and King’s Landing as Boardwalk.)īut the majority of the search results were articles about Amazon’s growing dominance of retail, and its potential threat to competition as a monopoly.Īmazon is big, and it’s getting bigger every day.

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