Amazon set to pass Walmart in revenue for the first time

[bjl584]

Amazon set to pass Walmart in revenue for first time

[disneysteve]

This doesn’t surprise me at all. Especially since the pandemic, people have shifted much more of their shopping online. Certainly you can order online from Walmart. We do it regularly. But Amazon is still the best when it comes to selection. It is rare for a week to go by where one of us doesn’t order something on Amazon. I just checked and we’ve purchased 6 items on Amazon so far in 2025.

[ua_guy]

Amazing. It's like watching to two biggest a-hole companies mud-wrestle each other.

[disneysteve]

I read an article today that is sort of related to this. All Quicksilver, Billabong, and Volcom stores will be closing. The article said that overall more than 15,000 stores are expected to close in 2025. That's a big increase from the more than 7,000 that closed in 2024 but would bring the total to over 22,000 closures in 2 years.

Personally, I think that's a good thing to an extent as there are way too many stores in existence, at least in this part of the country. And they're still building more everywhere we go. I don't understand it. This is all happening at a time when, as I said, people are doing more and more of their shopping online. At some point, the ridiculous over building of physical stores has to collapse. If everyone is shopping online, we don't need anywhere near as many brick and mortar stores.

[Fishindude77]

Amazing. It's like watching to two biggest a-hole companies mud-wrestle each other.

Pretty good description !

[ua_guy]

I think Amazon has an uncertain future. I've commented before about the relative difficulty compared to the past in finding specific, name-brand products from reputable sellers on their website. There's a lot of basic stuff that is sold by and ships from Amazon, which is still useful. And as of lately, last few years, there's been a lot of gray market, knockoff, and stuff available direct from Chinese and overseas markets. Some of it is questionable quality and/or support should you need it, and if you think you'll need a replacement, better buy 2, because the brand or item may disappear. But then there are the clear wins like overall selection compared to local brick/mortar, and specific products I cannot even get locally. Another downside is products on Prime aren't that competitively priced anymore, it seems. The value is in having it delivered to your door.

[disneysteve]

I guess it’s a function of what you’re buying but we’ve had no trouble finding what we want on Amazon and no quality issues with the products.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

I think Amazon has an uncertain future. I've commented before about the relative difficulty compared to the past in finding specific, name-brand products from reputable sellers on their website. There's a lot of basic stuff that is sold by and ships from Amazon, which is still useful. And as of lately, last few years, there's been a lot of gray market, knockoff, and stuff available direct from Chinese and overseas markets. Some of it is questionable quality and/or support should you need it, and if you think you'll need a replacement, better buy 2, because the brand or item may disappear. But then there are the clear wins like overall selection compared to local brick/mortar, and specific products I cannot even get locally. Another downside is products on Prime aren't that competitively priced anymore, it seems. The value is in having it delivered to your door.

this 100%. And it's not cheaper it's more expensive than target or walmart a lot of times. It's the convience of not pricing it across the places. It's the ease of delivery to door. but it's not cheaper than going to the store or getting it from target or walmart or costco. Case and point I needed a new keurig for my shed for my office. I bought it off walmart. $37 versus $49. 2 day shipping same. most I bet would have ordered it off of amazon and not bothered to shop around.

also a lot of stuff is NO longer 2 day shipping from amazon. It's more like 3-5 days. The two day shipping time. Not including time to package and get it ready to "ship" trust me i've argued with them over that semantics.