As of January 2017, Walmart has a total of 16,859,211 products on sale compared to Amazon.com’s 356,901,798 products. It’s clear that Amazon is still miles ahead of Walmart in the eCommerce space.
Walmart has only 4.7% of the products that Amazon has to offer.
Walmart vs Amazon (Products for sale)
Here is a comparison of the number of products on sale at Amazon.com and Walmart.com
Month over Month Growth – December 2016 to January 2017 on Walmart and Amazon
Walmart.com’s product portfolio has increased by almost 600k since last month. While that may sound like a big number, those changes are commonplace on Amazon.com. However, it does demonstrate how fast Walmart is trying to compete with Amazon.
Walmart has grown to be the second-largest online retailer and are still striving to add new products.
Amazon did have a drop in the number of products they list in their website but such wide changes are fairly common on Amazon. However, it’s still at the top of the eCommerce chain in terms of the number of products it has for sale with 356,901,798 products.
What’s selling at Walmart
Walmart seems to be leading in terms of delivery time and customer value. With Walmart’s low prices and an assortment of products, customers are getting the best shopping experience right from their homes.
Acquiring Jet.com in mid last year has allowed Walmart to make online shopping more seamless.
Here’s a chart showing the Top 10 categories at Walmart.com.
The “Home” department has the highest number of products with around 3 million products, followed by Electronics and Jewelry.
Auto & Tires and Jewelry have increased their products by another hundred thousand within the past month.
Below is a table for the count of all the Categories offered by Walmart.
Walmart has a lot of ground to cover to catch up with Amazon and it is going to be interesting to watch this race over the next couple of years.
