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4 Crazy Amazon Visuals That Will Make You Rethink Amazon

By Tinuiti Team

Amazon.com, Inc is a Fortune 500 company which displays merchandise digitally from its own inventory and other merchants, acting an online marketplace for retail purchases.

Started as an online bookstore in 1995 in Washington State, Amazon has grown to become the world’s largest online retailer selling retail goods, consumer electronics, and proprietary Amazon products and services.

5 Amazon Questions That Will Make You Rethink Selling on Amazon

Here are 5 Amazon graphics that will make you think twice about selling on Amazon, or optimizing your Amazon operations.


1. Where does Amazon sell?

Amazon has region specific site in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico.

To get an idea of where you can buy on Amazon, check out this map of Amazon’s world dominance: 

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2. What does Amazon sell?

Amazon refers to its own department selection as “Earth’s Biggest Selection”, and rightly so as they sell products in:

With the introduction of Amazon Fresh in 2007, and Amazon’s smartphone release this year, online shoppers can find virtually anything on Amazon.

To get a scope of how many items Amazon sells, consider what Amazon doesn’t sell- which include Alcohol, Art and Gambling items, among others.

3. What Does Amazon Do?

In additional to digital commerce, Amazon.com has ventures on and offline including:

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Amazon also owns many subsidiaries which might surprise you including:

 

4. Where does Amazon ship from?

Amazon strategically places fulfillment centers to optimize shipping time for orders across the US and other parts of the world. In the United States alone, Amazon has over 12 fulfillment centers in:

To get an idea of where Amazon ships from within the U.S, check out this map of Amazon’s fulfillment centers:

Amazon US fulfillment centers

 5. How Much Does Amazon Sell?

Last year (2013), Amazon sold $51 Billion worth of its inventory. This doesn’t include items sold from third party sellers on the Marketplace- only items sold by Amazon.

To put that revenue in perspective,  that’s as much as the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Here are some things which Amazon could buy that cost $51 billion dollars:

Amazon-revenue-selling


Want to learn more crazy things about selling on Amazon?

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