Amazon Owns Black Friday

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Amazon Owns Black Friday

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Americans spent $10 billion online on Black Friday 2025. There is no reason to think this year will be different. A look at Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AZMN | AMZN Price Prediction) earnings report shows the extent to which it dominated the day.

There are tens of thousands of retailers, at least. In the US, we are making money online on Black Friday. Combined across the retail market as a whole, they have a considerable presence.

Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Target (NYSE: TGT), and other large retailers account for a significant share of the market as well.

Amazon’s quarterly revenue in North America last quarter was $106 billion. Its holiday quarter numbers are much larger. That means Black Friday revenue could easily be $2 billion to $3 billion.

Amazon is also selling items from thousands of retailers. That means it makes some money on each of these sales.

Amazon Prime also gives it an advantage. People who use Prime spend about 3x as much on Amazon as other shoppers do.

For years, there was a worry that Amazon would put retailers out of business. With JCPenney and Kmart, that may have been true.

Today, Amazon may not be destroying other companies, but its dominance does not help them.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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