Amazon vs Walmart- Product Sold in October 2017

As of October 2017, Walmart has a total of 29 million products on sale while Amazon has a total of 606 million products up for sale.

That’s only 4.9% of what Amazon has to offer. 

Significant Changes Since Last Month

Walmart’s product portfolio has decreased by half a million products, a pretty small number when looking at Walmarts high earnings this year.

Walmart beat on their earnings in their Q2 reports, with an increase of 60% online sales! Walmart’s total sales climbed 2.1 percent from a year ago, to $123.36 billion. America’s top brick and mortar retail have been quietly growing its online advertising business – another sign of growth for the company’s e-commerce business.

While Walmart is making progress in online sales, Amazon is trying to grow bigger in brick-and-mortar retailing.

Top 10 Categories

Just as the previous month, Home has the highest number of products- 5.12 million and for the first time, the Seasonal department comes in third place with a product count of 4.49 million (a 101% increase).

Percentage Changes Over the Last Month

Here is a bar chart showing the percentage difference in each category with the previous month.

The categories Seasonal and Office have the most prominent changes with a 100 and 95 percent increase in their product portfolio. All other departments at Walmart seem to be doing well, with only two – “Video Games” and “Movies& TV” having a slight decrease in product counts.

Here is a table for the count of categories at Walmart: