{"id":188871,"date":"2026-02-19T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/amazon-overtakes-walmart-to-lead-the-world-in-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:45:17","slug":"amazon-overtakes-walmart-to-lead-the-world-in-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/amazon-overtakes-walmart-to-lead-the-world-in-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon overtakes Walmart to lead the world in sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/19\/business\/walmart-amazon-sales-companies\">Amazon overtakes Walmart to lead the world in sales<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/19\/business\/walmart-amazon-sales-companies\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/19\/business\/walmart-amazon-sales-companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-19 09:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon has surpassed Walmart to become the world\u2019s largest company by sales, ending Walmart\u2019s 13-year reign.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon reported $717 billion in sales in 2025, just edging out Walmart\u2019s $713 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The revenue growth of Amazon\u2019s cloud computing, advertising, and other business sectors contributed to its overtaking of Walmart.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon Web Services (AWS) brought in nearly $129 billion in sales last year, driving a significant portion of company revenue despite retail losses.<\/li>\n<li>While $464 billion of Amazon&#8217;s revenue came from sales on its online and physical stores, Amazon supplemented this with over $100 billion from advertising and Prime subscriptions.<\/li>\n<li>Walmart\u2019s sales continue to be heavily reliant on its physical stores and websites, with over 90% of its revenue coming from these sources.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the shift in title, Walmart remains strong under new CEO John Furner, surpassing $1 trillion in stock value and emphasizing its transformation into a tech company with its Nasdaq listing.<\/li>\n<li>Walmart continues to thrive in the U.S., especially among middle-class and upper-income households seeking cost savings, leading to a 4.6% growth in sales in the last quarter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon overtakes Walmart to lead the world in sales https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/19\/business\/walmart-amazon-sales-companies Publish Date: 2026-02-19 09:50:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2025-12-01t145239z-1908140667-rc2p7ia9dm34-rtrmadp-3-retail-holidayshopping-cyber-monday.JPG?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188873,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188871\/revisions\/188873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}