In fiscal year 2024, there were approximately 255 million customer visits each week to Walmart stores throughout the world, up from 240 million on a weekly average a year earlier. Walmart Walmart was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton when he and his brother James “Bud” Walton opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers, Arkansas. Since then, Walmart has grown to become the largest publicly-owned retail company in the world. In 2024, the retailer reached around 648 billion U.S. dollars in revenues, and about 643 billion in net sales. Store count Walmart had a total of 10,616 retail stores throughout the world as of January 31, 2024. The company also operated 368 distribution facilities. In total Walmart operated 10,984 stores. Compared to 2021, there was a significant drop in the number of stores due to the fact that in the first quarter of fiscal 2022, the company terminated its operations in the United Kingdom and Japan. In the U.S. alone the company totaled 4,615 locations, of which 3,560 were supercenter stores and 695 were neighborhood markets.

This statistic depicts the sales per store of selected mass market retailers in the United States in 2023. In 2023, Costco's sales per store amounted to about ****** million U.S. dollars in the United States, significantly more than their competition.

In the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024, Walmart's global net sales amounted to 642.6 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of approximately six percent in comparison to a year earlier.

Walmart Walmart was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton when he and his brother James “Bud” Walton opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers, Arkansas. Since then, Walmart has grown to become the largest publicly-owned retail company in the world. In the United States, the company includes Walmart discount stores, supercenters, neighborhood markets, and Sam’s Club warehouse membership clubs. The company also has many international operations. Walmart is considered a variety store which focuses on low prices featuring apparel as well as hard goods, and has been committed to upholding their basic value of customer service. Beginning in the early 1990s, Walmart went to great lengths to increase their market share. They introduced a full line of groceries into their stores, diversified their market by appealing to certain ethnic groups through bilingual advertisements, and took steps to promote the awareness of environmental issues.As of 2024, Walmart operated 10,616 stores worldwide; with 4,615 of those stores located in the United States alone.

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The total visits to Walmart.com peaked in November 2023 at 517 million, after reaching a low of approximately 369 million in September 2023. The months leading up to the winter holidays are typically the months with the highest web traffic in e-commerce in the United States.

This ranking depicts the leading 100 American retailers in 2023, based on U.S. retail sales. Once again, Walmart was the leading American retailer. That year, the company accounted for retail sales of about 530 billion U.S. dollars. Walmart was founded by Samuel Moore Walton (1918-1992) in 1962. Walmart's headquarters is situated in Bentonville, Arkansas and operates worldwide under different names (such as Walmex in Mexico and Best Price in India). Leading retailers in the United States Although Walmart is the unequivocal front-running retailer in terms of U.S. retail sales, Amazon.com inches closer each and every year. The retail industry is in the midst of a customer revolution. The collision of the virtual and physical worlds is fundamentally changing consumers' purchasing behaviors. Consumers are seeking an integrated shopping experience across all channels and expect retailers to deliver this experience. The key drivers of this customer revolution are the rapid adoption of mobile devices, digital media and tablets equipped with shopping apps. In fact, the share of smartphone users in the United States was around 90 percent. In other words, nearly the entire country's population now uses smartphones. As such, the retail paradigm has shifted from a physical connection point with customers to a multi-pronged approach that crosses both physical and digital channels. The traditional brick-and-mortar retail store is no longer the dominant medium for purchasing all types of goods. Instead, it serves as one of many potential connection points between customers and a retailer's brand. Today's consumer is increasingly connected to both the physical and digital space and able to interact with retailers through multiple channels simultaneously. To stay competitive in this ever-evolving landscape, it is imperative for retailers to deliver a seamless customer experience across all channels and provide the right services and products at the right time.

This statistic depicts the sales of the leading retailers in the United States in 2023. Walmart was the leading retailer in the United States with about 635 billion U.S. dollars worth of sales that year.

Amazon Prime Day drives higher online traffic to the marketplace website, at the expenses of other Amazon's competitors. On the occasion of Amazon Prime Day 2021, the traffic to pages of consumer packaged goods (CPG) sold on Amazon grew by **** percent compared to the average traffic of the e-commerce giant. In turn, Walmart saw its online views decrease by *** percent for the same categories of products.

In 2024, Amazon was the online marketplace with the highest gross merchandise value in the United States, amounting to approximately *** billion U.S. dollars. It was followed by Walmart, with a GMV of roughly *** billion U.S. dollars. Amazon: the U.S.’s clear favorite While Amazon might not be the leading online marketplace worldwide, it is the front-runner in the United States. As of April 2023, Amazon dominated the list of leading online marketplaces in the U.S. based on number of monthly visits, with over *** billion website visitors. Regarding the market share of leading retail e-commerce companies, Amazon was also in the lead with over ** percent difference from the next competitor, Walmart. Even when it comes to holiday shopping, consumers favor Amazon. Nearly ** percent of consumers stated that they prefer the online marketplace for their holiday shopping needs over other websites. A prime day for shopping Consumer purchasing behavior often relies on shopping events that occur throughout the year. Amazon incurs the largest increase of sales during Black Friday, which is followed by Prime Day, an event exclusively for Amazons’ Prime members. Consumers often plan their shopping around this event, due to the deals offered to Prime members. In 2023, most shoppers planned on purchasing electronics, at almost ** percent of consumers. The most purchased items on Prime Day, however, fell into the category of home goods, with around ** percent of shoppers, and only around ** percent of shoppers purchased electronics. In general, the average value of Prime Day orders was worth up to ** U.S. dollars, with ** percent of orders.

In March 2024, Amazon.com had approximately 2.2 billion combined web visits, up from 2.1 billion visits in February. In the fourth quarter of 2024, Amazon’s net income amounted to approximately 20 billion U.S. dollars. Online retail in the United States Online retail in the United States is constantly growing. In the third quarter of 2023, e-commerce sales accounted for 15.6 percent of retail sales in the United States. During that quarter, U.S. retail e-commerce sales amounted to over 284 billion U.S. dollars. Amazon is the leading online store in the country, in terms of e-commerce net sales. Amazon.com generated around 130 billion U.S. dollars in online sales in 2022. Walmart ranked as the second-biggest online store, with revenues of 52 billion U.S. dollars. The king of Black Friday In 2023, Amazon ranked as U.S. shoppers' favorite place to go shopping during Black Friday, even surpassing in-store purchasing. Nearly six out of ten consumers chose Amazon as the number one place to go find the best Black Friday deals. Similar findings can be observed in the United Kingdom (UK), where Amazon is also ranked as the preferred Black Friday destination.