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        "msgid": "amazon-has-no-rivals-1780905024",
        "date": "2026-05-18 17:58:00",
        "title": "Amazon Has No Rivals",
        "author": "",
        "source": "VIVA",
        "tags": "bisnis",
        "topic": "Business",
        "summary": "An analysis of Amazon's dominant market position, noting how it recently surpassed Walmart to become the world's largest company by annual sales. Despite competition from retailers like Walmart, Target, and Temu, Amazon maintains a massive lead in global e-commerce market share.",
        "content": "<p>Vitamins, adhesive bandages, and mango jam\u2014these are just a few of\nthe items my family purchased last month through Amazon\u2019s vast online\nshopping platform. We also shop at their supermarket chain, Whole Foods,\nwatch TV shows via their streaming service, read books on Kindle\ne-readers, and browse countless websites undoubtedly powered by Amazon\nWeb Services (AWS), their highly profitable cloud computing\nbusiness.<\/p>\n<p>This is not even half of the interconnected products and services\noffered by this global giant, which surpassed the US supermarket giant\nWalmart earlier this year to become the world\u2019s largest company based on\nannual sales. However, why does Amazon, launched by Jeff Bezos in 1995\nas an online bookstore from a rented garage, have so few serious\ncompetitors in the West regarding e-commerce? As consumers, could we not\nbenefit from more competition?<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Amazon is certainly not without competitors in\nevery segment it operates, including e-commerce. Major US retailers such\nas Walmart and Target both possess extensive and rapidly growing online\nretail branches and offer versions of Amazon\u2019s Prime subscription\nservice. In the UK, Tesco leads in online grocery sales, and Zalando is\nthe largest online clothing retailer in Germany. Meanwhile, for\nultra-cheap products, the Chinese websites Temu and Shein are major\nforces.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is eBay, which recently received a US$55.5 billion\ntakeover bid from video game retailer GameStop, though it subsequently\nrejected the offer. eBay operates a different business model from\nAmazon, focusing on auctions, second-hand goods, and collectibles. While\nGameStop expressed hope that eBay might one day become a stronger\ncompetitor to Amazon, Amazon currently remains far superior to all its\nrivals in terms of overall e-commerce market share. In the US, Amazon\ncontrols 40.5 per cent of all online retail sales, while its closest\ncompetitor, Walmart, holds 9.2 per cent, according to recent data. eBay\nsits at approximately 3 per cent. Amazon is also highly dominant in the\nUK, where it controls around 30 per cent of online retail sales.<\/p>",
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