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:
Category |
Count |
| Home | 5,677,009 |
| Books | 5,123,665 |
| Office | 5,074,498 |
| Seasonal | 4,491,720 |
| Electronics | 3,515,555 |
| Jewelry | 3,115,056 |
| Home Improvement | 2,841,733 |
| Auto & Tires | 2,433,342 |
| Clothing | 2,094,516 |
| Sports & Outdoors | 1,491,926 |
| Arts, Crafts & Sewing | 1,257,425 |
| Cell Phones | 1,223,772 |
| Party & Occasions | 1,020,971 |
| Household Essentials | 866,755 |
| Toys | 717,130 |
| Patio & Garden | 486,168 |
| Beauty | 420,287 |
| Health | 335,243 |
| Personal Care | 239,742 |
| Music on CD or Vinyl | 210,861 |
| Food | 202,591 |
| Pets | 196,264 |
| Musical Instruments | 158,198 |
| Photo Center | 125,542 |
| Baby | 116,085 |
| Movies & TV | 102,772 |
| Video Games | 39,797 |
| Gifts & Registry | 24,937 |
| Pharmacy | 4,040 |
| Industrial & Scientific | 3,206 |
