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How Many Products does Amazon Sell? – August 2017

How Many Products does Amazon Sell? – August 2017

Amazon has a total of 536 million products as of August 2017, an increase of 169 million since last month. Alexa Skills increased by 3k products and Home & Kitchen has more than 70M products up for sale. Read more to know about Amazon category counts.

Number of Target stores in USA – 2021 Store Location Analysis

Number of Target stores in USA – 2021 Store Location Analysis

There are 1,897 Target stores in the US. California (307) has the highest number of Target stores. City with most Target stores is Chicago(21)

Number of Products on Sale at Amazon Prime Now

Number of Products on Sale at Amazon Prime Now

Prime Now, an extension of Amazon Prime has been expanding rapidly over the past year in several markets around the globe. The difference between other online shopping services provided by Amazon () is that Prime Now has a two-hour delivery which is free of charge to Prime Now members with delivery available seven days a week from […]

How to Scrape Store Locations from Target.com using Python

How to Scrape Store Locations from Target.com using Python

You can get a lot of information on store locations. This tutorial will show you how to extract store details such as store timings, address, latitude and longitude and more from Target.com using Python and LXML.

Unicorn jobs – Who’s hiring – Analysis of US jobs by unicorn startups

Unicorn jobs – Who’s hiring – Analysis of US jobs by unicorn startups

We looked into the available unicorn job openings across cities in the U.S.  The unicorns with the highest number of jobs available: Uber, AbbVie, and WeWork compose of nearly half (49%) of the total jobs available. From the 37 unicorns taken for analysis, only 12 (32%) of them have more than a hundred available job postings. […]

Online References on Scrapehero

Online References on Scrapehero

ScrapeHero’s e-Commerce data and web scraping tips were recently mentioned in a couple of research papers and articles. Research The paper about “Predicting Bad Patents” written by Jhoong Wha Lee from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California at Berkeley talks about the Web Scraping tips we have discussed before.  The technical report goes through […]

Amazon vs Walmart- Products Sold in June 2017

Amazon vs Walmart- Products Sold in June 2017

As of June 2017, Walmart has a total of 27 million products while Amazon has a product count of 372 million products up for sale. That’s only 7.49% of the products Amazon has to offer.   Amazon and Walmart finding Rival Bidders Amazons purchase of Whole Foods will make the two almost directly competitive in the grocery […]

Analyzing Top Online Brands in the Apparel Industry

Analyzing Top Online Brands in the Apparel Industry

To gain some insights into the top online brands in fashion and clothing stores, we analyzed about 45k products from some of the top brands with an online store – Nike, Ralph Lauren, Gap (Old Navy, Banana Republic) and Levi Strauss Top Online Brands – Gender vs. Number of Products Looking at the number of […]

Number of Products Sold on Amazon.com- June 2017

Number of Products Sold on Amazon.com- June 2017

Amazon has a total of 372 million products as of June 2017, an increase of 1.1%. The Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry dominates Amazon’s product count and Alexa Skills increases by 19.1%. Check out our post to read more about Amazons category counts.

Amazon vs Walmart- Products Sold in May 2017

Amazon vs Walmart- Products Sold in May 2017

As of May 2017, Walmart has a total of 26.1 million products while Amazon has a product count of 367 million products up for sale.  That’s only 7.11% of what Amazon has to offer Here is a comparison of the number of products on sale in Amazon and Walmart  Amazon Keeps Edge Amazon is now worth two […]

Dark Data, Apple and HBO

Dark Data, Apple and HBO

Apple recently acquired Lattice Data for $200 million. Lattice Data specializes in trying to make sense of “Dark Data” and Apple thought this space was valuable enough to spend 200 million. Apple has picked up Lattice Data, a company that applies an AI-enabled inference engine to take unstructured, “dark” data and turn it into structured (and […]

Number of Products Sold on Amazon.com- May 2017

Number of Products Sold on Amazon.com- May 2017

Amazon.com has a total of 368,280,021 products on sale on May 4 2017 That’s 9.3% more than April 2017. Amazon had 335 million products on April 4th, 2017. Top 10 Categories   Digital Music is leading in the top 10 categories, with Home & Kitchen and Electronics department following behind.   Below are the subcategories of Digital […]

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