Two big retailers competing to be #1: Amazon vs Walmart
Posted By RichC on February 20, 2026
Amazon ($AMZN) surpassed Walmart ($WMT) as king of “sales.”
It is amazing to me that the 1990s online bookseller had the staying power to over come years of no profit to become such a retail powerhouse 30 years later … not to mention so many other technology areas from streaming to a dominate cloud services provider. Visionary!
Amazon has surpassed Walmart as the world’s largest company, measured by sales, breaking Walmart’s 13-year streak at the top of the list.
Amazon posted $717 billion in sales in 2025. Walmart, the largest company in the world for more than a decade, recorded $713 billion in sales in 2025, the retailer announced Thursday.
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