Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and is now the largest online retailer in the world. It started as an online bookstore but now sells a wide range of products including electronics, apparel, food and toys. Amazon has websites for multiple countries and continues to expand internationally. It surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the US in 2015 and announced plans to acquire Whole Foods in 2017 in an effort to grow its physical retail presence.
Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and is now the largest online retailer in the world. It started as an online bookstore but now sells a wide range of products including electronics, apparel, food and toys. Amazon has websites for multiple countries and continues to expand internationally. It surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the US in 2015 and announced plans to acquire Whole Foods in 2017 in an effort to grow its physical retail presence.
Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and is now the largest online retailer in the world. It started as an online bookstore but now sells a wide range of products including electronics, apparel, food and toys. Amazon has websites for multiple countries and continues to expand internationally. It surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the US in 2015 and announced plans to acquire Whole Foods in 2017 in an effort to grow its physical retail presence.
Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and is now the largest online retailer in the world. It started as an online bookstore but now sells a wide range of products including electronics, apparel, food and toys. Amazon has websites for multiple countries and continues to expand internationally. It surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the US in 2015 and announced plans to acquire Whole Foods in 2017 in an effort to grow its physical retail presence.
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This IS A story of amazon. Amazon.com, Inc. (/mzn/) is an American electronic
commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5, 1994 by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington. The tech giant is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization.[4] Amazon.com started as an online bookstore and later diversified to sell DVDs, Blu- rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/stream ing, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronicsnotably, Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echoand is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS).[5] Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand AmazonBasics. Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico. Amazon also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products.[6] In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were launched.[7][8][9] In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization.[10] Amazon is the fourth most valuable public company in the world, the largest Internet company by revenue in the world and the eighth largest employer in the United States.[11] In 2017, Amazon announced their plans to acquire Whole Foods Market for $13.4 billion by the end of the year, which vastly increased Amazon's presence as a physical retailer.[12] The acquisition was interpreted as a direct attempt to challenge Walmart as a physical store.[13]