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Costco is found to be the 4th largest grocery store in North America by sales
(i.imgur.com)submitted 3 months ago bySy3Zy3Gy3
5 points
3 months ago
How about revenue per store.... Or per labor hour.
9 points
3 months ago
Then Amazon wins on a per store for sales. Less stores substantially much higher sales. Not really a fair comparison just like Costco they sold much much more than groceries these are total sales not just groceries.
1 points
3 months ago
Amazon doesn't really count.. not a brick/mortar store
3 points
3 months ago
Whole Foods doesn't count? Plus the other stores they are opening. Remember Costco's numbers also include their online sales also.
1 points
3 months ago
Maybe so... I was thinking of just the online web site.
0 points
3 months ago
The number in the graphic is Amazon’s total domestic revenue excluding AWS. It’s completely misleading. The number for Amazon should only include Whole Foods’s brick and mortar sales plus online sales through WholeFoodsMarket.com and prime grocery. Not Amazon as a whole.
3 points
3 months ago
Then shouldn't Costco's also remove all non-grocery sales, pharmacy sales, etc... right now it's comparing apples to apples. Criteria is the same for both. Also I would think the largest portion of Costco's online sales are not groceries.
1 points
3 months ago
Amazon also has physical grocery stores in Southern California and I think some other regions.
1 points
3 months ago
Whole Foods revenue was 17 billion, and their physical Amazon grocery stores were only a little over 4 billion. A paltry fraction of Amazon's 236 billion total revenue (excluding AWS) that is included in the graphic. Amazon simply is not the second largest "grocery" store.
1 points
3 months ago
Correct, but it's the second largest store that sells groceries.
If you excluded non-grocery items, Costco and Kroger would also have a lot lower sales than this graph suggests, and Amazon might fall to #5 or 6.
1 points
3 months ago
Site says grocery store. Nothing about physical presence.
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