Walmart.com has a total of 16,249,629 products for sale as of December 2016 vs Amazon.com’s 405,435,416 products.
Walmart.com has 4% the number of products that Amazon.com has for sale
Last year, Walmart Management made it clear that they were determined to increase their online sales after their disappointing earnings (here is our post about that) . They seem to be doing just that.
Walmart has increased the number of products they offer online from just 4 million last year to 16.24 million in a span of 20 months. That’s an increase of 300%.
Yet, 16 million products is nothing compared to what Amazon.com has to offer – a massive 405 million products. Over the same time span of 20 months, Amazon added about 49 million products to its offering.
Number of Products by Category on Walmart.com
The largest category on Walmart.com is – “Home” with 5.7 million products, followed by Office and Electronics.
Below is a table with the number of products in each category: