Amazon’s results for the second quarter of this year testified that the company’s desire to become a large-scale commercial ecosystem, the concept of which provides for going beyond the format of sales reporting on its platform, is being implemented and has a certain level of efficiency.
In the period from April to June, the sales volume of third-party sellers in the functional space of the e-commerce giant reached $32.3 billion. This result is 18.1% higher than a year ago.
The company’s financial report also contains information that sales in the firm’s physical stores amounted to $5 billion in the second quarter. This figure is 6% higher than last year’s result.
The company’s CFO, Brian Olsavsky, during a conference call with analysts, speaking about the features of the current configuration of the macroeconomic environment, said that consumers are looking for benefits in their purchases and are lowering prices, without specifying this in a certain sense conditional wording.
Sales of online stores of the e-commerce giant in the second quarter showed an increase of 4% compared to last year’s figure. In monetary terms, revenues in this segment of activity amount to just under $53 billion.
Subscription services during the reporting period brought the e-commerce giant revenue of $9.9 billion. The growth of this indicator was 14% year-on-year.
The company’s total net sales in the second quarter amounted to $134.4 billion. In this case, the growth is recorded at the level of 10.8% compared to last year’s figure.
Currently, the e-commerce giant is focused on implementing a strategy to optimize order fulfillment and logistics processes. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that the company has made progress in the transition of a chain of stores for the delivery of goods from a single national trading structure of the United States to a series of eight separate regions serving geographical areas. According to him, the regionalization strategy is yielding results, and has already reduced the number of requests for a delivered parcel by 20%, reduced the number of miles traveled for delivery by 19% and increased the number of deliveries made within one region by more than 1,000 basis points.
Andy Jassy also said that since the beginning of this year, the company has delivered more than 1.8 billion devices to Prime members in the United States on the same day or the next day. This figure is four times higher than the speed of implementation of the relevant activities in 2019.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) sales grew 12% year-on-year in the second quarter, reaching $22.1 billion.
Andy Jassy announced the company’s intention to gain access to large language models and artificial intelligence.
The head of the company also said that Amazon Business is currently one of the fastest-growing offerings of the company. In this case, the annual sales amount to $35 billion.
Commenting on the activities of third-party sellers and the initiative to expand Buy with Prime, the company’s management reported that the conversion rate of merchants using this service increased by an average of 25%. There were no statements regarding further intentions regarding this segment of the business.
The company also announced a doubling of the number of Amazon Pharmacy customers.
Andy Jassy stated that the company’s grocery business continues to grow and noted the firm’s intentions to update this segment of its commercial structure. Amazon continues to use its fulfillment network, which, according to the head of the brand, allows it to add more products to stores.
Andy Jassy also noted the firm’s significant business in the field of non-food products, separately stating that there is a need for a physical presence in this segment.
