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Name another online retailer that's bigger/better known.

You can't compare them to the entire retail market. If anything, their competition is Wal-Mart's online service, or Ebay.




> Name another online retailer that's bigger/better known.

You literally named two. My father knows how to do only two things on his computer - check his email, and buy stuff on eBay. There is a "Walmart.com" desk and in-store signage in 5,000+ physical stores.


> You literally named two.

Neither of those are bigger, in fact they're dramatically smaller, Amazon has 49.1% of the online retail market to eBay's 6.6% and Walmart's 3.7%, according to: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-...


> You can't compare them to the entire retail market.

sure i can. i do every time i buy something at my grocery store, or local retailers, that i could've gotten from amazon.




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