According to data compiled for the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, the 10 largest merchants for 2009 were bigger and better than the year before. Using big names, deep inventories, and established customer lists, these top 10 took an even larger piece of all US e-commerce sales.
Amazon.com remained number one, with 2009 web sales up 27.9% to $24.51 billion compared to $19.17 billion in 2008. Following Amazon in order of largest to smallest included:
- Staples Inc. (No.2), up 27.3% to $9.8 billion from $7.7 billion.
- Dell Inc. (No. 3) down 6.2% to an Internet Retailer-estimated $4.53 billion from $4.83 billion.
- Apple Inc. (No. 4) up 16.7% to an Internet Retailer-estimated $4.25 billion from $3.64 billion.
- Office Depot Inc. (No. 5) down 14.6% to $4.1 billion from $4.8 billion.
- Walmart.com (No. 6) up 19.8% to an Internet Retailer-estimated $3.50 billion from $2.92 billion.
- OfficeMax Inc. (No. 7) down 10% to an Internet Retailer-estimated $2.775 billion from $3.08 billion.
- Sears Holdings Corp. (No. 8) up 3% to an Internet Retailer-estimated $2.774 billion from $2.69 billion.
- CDW Corp. (No. 9) down 5% to an Internet Retailer-estimated $2.47 billion from $2.60 billion.
- Best Buy Co. (No. 10) up 20% to an Internet Retailer-estimated $2.45 billion from $2.04 billion.
“Amazon easily has a three-year lead in deep thinking around some of the most important aspects of e-commerce,” said Scot Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor Corp., which helps retailers sell through online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay. “Amazon is first and foremost a retailer. They have teams of people that are organized by category, that know the category extremely well and focus on buying products, working with vendors and expanding the selection for that space.”
The Top 500 guide print edition becomes available May 10, 2010. The data for Top500Guide.com is now live.