An Infographic Look at Amazon.com

We know Amazon.com is enormous. But, just how big an online retailing presence is the company?
As Stephanie Mlot reports for PCmag.com: “The beauty of Amazon.com is the ability to browse hundreds of thousands of products on one Web site. But what if the online retailer were actually a brick-and-mortar store? E-commerce experts 500 Friends pondered that question in a new infographic (below), and found that Amazon has enough products to fill 1,290 Walmart Supercenters.” In 2012, Amazon was “expected to grow 23 percent, with $9,823 pouring in every five seconds, or $117,882 per minute. In total, Amazon was forecast to earn $62 billion in 2012 revenue. The numbers are even more staggering in comparison to other big-box retailers, like Target and Wal-Mart, which have 355,000 and 2.2 million total employees, respectively, but earn less than $200,000 per worker. Meanwhile, Amazon makes more than $941,000 for each of its 51,000 employees.”
Click the infographic to read more from Mlot’s PCmag.com story.

 

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