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MineralMan

(152,073 posts) Sat Mar 9, 2019, 04:06 PM Mar 2019

Online Shopping Market Share - Amazon's #1 [View all]

Check out this 4th Quarter of 2018 chart:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270884/most-visited-websites-in-the-retail-sector-in-the-us/

Amazon is the clear leader with 56.1% of all customer visits.
eBay is second, with 19.7%
Walmart is thirds, with 10.8%
Target comes in fourth, with 4.5%
And Etsy is a surprising fifth place, with 3.5%

So, Amazon is clearly dominant, as you might expect, but there are others that are doing OK, as well. Amazon does not have monopoly status.

See the link for more companies.

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Online Shopping Market Share - Amazon's #1 [View all] MineralMan Mar 2019 OP

Amazon is, in my experience, the most reliable, has the biggest inventory, and is the most expensive LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #1

It is a monopoly that has used its huge power to dominate other markets manor321 Mar 2019 #2

No it isn't; you cannot, by definition, be a monopoly with only 50 percent market share. LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #3

Amazon is the mall owner, the checkout person privvy to all buyers' shopping preferences Doremus Mar 2019 #13

There's nothing on Amazon you can't get elsewhere, often cheaper. Their advantage is fast service and LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #16

that definition of monopoly fits the board game, only Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #15

Amazon basically created e-books. Don't know why you call monopoly there. Blue_true Mar 2019 #10

You are suggesting that in such a huge economy as ours, ONE firm holding 56% of retail... TreasonousBastard Mar 2019 #4

They don't have 56% of retail business, they have 56% of online retail business LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #5

Not even that-- 56% of website visits. However, that's not my point. It's not even relevant if... TreasonousBastard Mar 2019 #6

So your entire argument is that they are too successful, and should be stopped. Good luck with that. LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #7

Hey, we did to to Rockefeller and the railroad and steel trusts... TreasonousBastard Mar 2019 #8

It's not a trust, and it's not a monopoly, and there's no evidence it disrupts the market, other than LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #9

Website visits. Not sales. MineralMan Mar 2019 #11

Post #6? TreasonousBastard Mar 2019 #12

I don't know when retail market share was deregulated but Doremus Mar 2019 #14