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In many ways amazon has already eaten walmart. In what way is walmart the biggest company on the earth?

• Nelkins 9y ago
  It's the largest company by revenue [1] and employee count [2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers?wprov=sfla1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers?wp...
• sethev 9y ago
  Revenue and number of employees
• deleted 9y ago
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• iampims 9y ago
  Headcount I believe.
• pwinnski 9y ago
  Walmart isn't the biggest company on earth by most means. Last quarter, Walmart reported $31.8B profits on $123.4B earnings. For the similar quarter, Amazon reported $14.5B profits on $38.0B earnings. So Walmart dwarfed Amazon overall. Amazon's fresh results are great, and it helps to close the gap between them, but they are still much smaller than Walmart. Unless you're talking online-only, in which case the comparison switch around, and Amazon is already much bigger than Walmart. But Walmart's online sales are a small percent of their earnings.