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Amazon's Online Sales Increase

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Amazon’s online store sales rose 16 percent year over year to $53.2 billion in Q2 of 2021, physical store sales rose 11 percent to $4.2 billion, and total net sales rose 27 percent to $113.1 billion, according to the retailer.

“Over the past 18 months, our consumer business has been called on to deliver an unprecedented number of items, including PPE, food, and other products that helped communities around the world cope with the difficult circumstances of the pandemic. At the same time, AWS has helped so many businesses and governments maintain business continuity, and we’ve seen AWS growth reaccelerate as more companies bring forward plans to transform their businesses and move to the cloud,” said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO, in a statement. “Thank you to all of our passionate, innovative, mission-driven employees around the world for continuing to stay focused on delivering for customers—I am very excited to work with you as we invent and build for the future.”

In the third quarter, Amazon expects net sales to grow between 10 and 16 percent to between $106 and $112 billion.

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