Amazon - Amazon has about a 5 percent share of US retail spending

Time: Wednesday Aug 8, 2018

Place: New York City, New York, U.S.

Details: According to an August 8, 2018 story in Bloomberg Businessweek, Amazon has about a 5 percent share of US retail spending (excluding cars and car parts and visits to restaurants and bars), and a 43.5 share of American online spending in 2018. The forecast is for Amazon to own 49 percent of the total American online spending in 2018, with two-thirds of Amazon's revenue coming from the US.

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