[alharith]

I am not sure why people think Amazon is such a dominate force on the commerce front, especially with respects to Walarmt. It isn't even close between the two. I am more worried about the cloud technology space being down to basically two choices now.

[flyGuyOnTheSly]

Not sure where you live, but in Ontario Amazon delivery trucks outnumber all other delivery trucks combined.

Seemingly 50% of every package sitting on anyone's doorstep has the familiar Amazon branded packing tape surrounding it as well.

They're definitely dominant.

[WrkInProgress]

Amazon.ca and Amazon.com accounted for about 10% of all e-commerce sales in Canada for 2019.

I wish i had some stats for the raw # of total packages/shipments, because that's where I think Amazon's marketshare would match the picture of "50% of every package"

[CountSessine]

In Canada, yes - but only because of our awful CBSA, the absurdly low de minimus exception in NAFTA, and the fact that the Canadian retail sector is fat and uncompetitive (and yet Shopify is Canadian??!)

Amazon is the only online retailer that’s figured out shipping and the CBSA here. Everyone else is awful. Walmart online ordering is awful. Home Depot is awful. What’s left of toys r us is awful. Canadian Tire online is so witheringly, eye-watering awful that it turned me off of even going to the store.

Besides amazon, what else is there here?

[atwebb]

Only anecdotal but Amazon has to deliver most goods, Walmart and other physical retailers can provide pickup services for online purchases (which I prefer for some goods).

[bestnameever]

That doesn't say much about the volume.

Most of my packages from Amazon will have just one item in it but when I go to a store, like walmart, I will more often than not have a cart of multiple items I am buying.

I am not saying I represent everyone, but rather, it is hard to compare the two without knowing more data.

IIRC, Amazon's total revenue is less than 300 billion while Walmarts is over 500 billion.

[pgrote]

> dominate force on the commerce front

During the height of the pandemic Amazon's performance suffered for us. Prior to the pandemic 100% of our online purchases came from Amazon mostly due to inertia. Find something, order it, it shows up.

Amazon faltered. Lots of things out of stock, delayed delivery, missing items in shipments. We then turned to ebay and shopify and experienced none of those things. The spending is probably now 50% ebay, 30% amazon and 20% shopify now.

The decentralization approach to ecommerce is really coming through now ... at least for us.

I was surprised what a great experience it was buying from ebay and shopify. I hope they don't work to centralize things in the future.

[octodog]

You're right that Walmart is massive but Amazon is the biggest ecommerce player in the US and it's not even close. 38% Amazon to next closest Walmart at 5.8% [1]. Pre-COVID Amazon was about 44%.

[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/walmart-surpasses-ebay-in-...

[power78]

Which third cloud provider aren't you considering, and why? Is it azure?

[petra]

Amazon has 38% e-commerce market share, Walmart has 5.8%.

[alharith]

Note the key distinction I made: I said commerce in general, not strictly limited to e-commerce.

[FirefoxIsSlow]

Especially if you actually care about price. Amazon isn't great.

[alharith]

Or quality, or getting what you actually paid for, or not supporting a wanna-be trillionare technocrat that would rather satisfy his fantasy to colonize mars than treat his warehouse workers humanely or help his neighbors here on earth in general.