Fulfillment by Amazon Delivered More than 2 Billion Items for Sellers Worldwide in 2016 – Amazon (Jan 4, 2017)
This is one of those Amazon press releases with very few real numbers and lots of relative ones, but those numbers are still impressive. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is about half of third party seller units on Amazon, which in turn are about half of total unit shipments, so Amazon likely sold around 8 billion total units in 2016. Growth rates for FBA and seller units are higher than overall growth rates, because both are growing as a percentage of total sales, but this still suggests very high growth for Amazon overall in Q4. We’ll know more in a few weeks, of course, when Amazon reports earnings.
via Amazon – Press Room – Press Release
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