Comparison between Amazon and Wal-Mart in the Fashion Retail Industry

Fashion retail industry

Fashion retail industry
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Company overview of Amazon and Wal-Mart...............................................................................2
Comparison between Amazon and Wal-Mart.................................................................................3
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................6
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Fashion retail industry
It has been said that Amazon can and will overtake Wal-Mart as the world's largest
retailer within the next 10-15 years?
Introduction
It has been analyzed that Amazon is considered as one of the largest ecommerce website
and Wal-Mart is considered as one of the biggest American multinational retail company that
manages the entire chain of supermarkets and grocery stores. Therefore, in this paper the
discussion will be made on the both companies in relation to the success in the next 10 to 15
years.
Company overview of Amazon and Wal-Mart
Amazon provides a good experience to the customers and also focuses on enhancing the
choice of the products whereas it has been observed that Wal-Mart has a large network of the
store locations and also they focus on providing the products at low price. It can be stated that
Amazon was originated in 1994 by CEO Jeff Bezos and currently company sells more than 300
million products in the different categories. The company takes into consideration different
models such as Amazon retail, Amazon market and Amazon Web services. It has been observed
that Amazon Web services are known as the cloud computing platform that helps to offer the
online storage services and also there are virtual servers (Caraway, 2016).
Wal-Mart was founded in 1962, by Sam Walton and it is one of the biggest companies in
terms of revenue. It has been stated by the Wal-Mart company that there are 11,526 stores on the
global platform and less than 3% sales are generated through online platform (Perez, 2019).
Amazon Wal-Mart
 Employees : 154,000 2.2 Million
 Shareholders: 2,744 250,000
 Revenue: 100.5 Billion 486 Billion
 Market share: $307
Billion
$187 Billion
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