{"id":994181,"date":"2026-02-21T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994181"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:53:14","slug":"walmarts-biggest-rival-amazon-has-beaten-it-as-the-worlds-no-1-company-by-sales-but-why-it-really-need-not-worry-much-over-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/21\/walmarts-biggest-rival-amazon-has-beaten-it-as-the-worlds-no-1-company-by-sales-but-why-it-really-need-not-worry-much-over-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart&#8217;s biggest rival Amazon has beaten it as the world&#8217;s No 1 company by sales, but why it really need not &#8216;worry much&#8217; over this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has officially overtaken Walmart as the world&#8217;s largest company by revenue. In 2025, the e-commerce major reported $717 billion in sales, compared to Walmart&#8217;s $713.2 billion for the 12 months ending January 31. The shift ends more than a decade of Walmart holding the top position. However, analysts note that the comparison requires context: without Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing division, Amazon&#8217;s 2025 revenue would have stood at $588 billion, meaning the milestone rests largely on a business Walmart does not compete in. Walmart remains the largest physical retailer in the world, with more than 10,000 stores globally, and continues to hold an edge in brick-and-mortar retail while growing its e-commerce operations, an area where Amazon has struggled to establish a comparable physical presence despite its 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods Market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has officially overtaken Walmart as the world&#8217;s largest company by revenue. In 2025, the e-commerce major reported $717 billion in sales, compared to Walmart&#8217;s $713.2 billion for the 12 months ending January 31. The shift ends more than a decade of Walmart holding the top position. However, analysts note that the comparison requires context: without Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing division, Amazon&#8217;s 2025 revenue would have stood at $588 billion, meaning the milestone rests largely on a business Walmart does not compete in. Walmart remains the largest physical retailer in the world, with more than 10,000 stores globally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}