Amazon 2019: Growth As A Service, The Cross Category KillerRelease date: August 20th, 2019 (105 pages) PDF/Powerpoint format. Price: GBP985.00 |
Abstract
To the occasional visitor to the USA, it might seem as if Amazon has taken over America. The retailer is siphoning off spend on Whole Foods, as well as generating income from AmazonGo/ book stores/4star. An Alexa powered Echo can be found in the hotel/hire car, as can PrimeVideo, prime labelled vans are everywhere and so on. And all of this a visitor would notice without having had any interaction with the main legacy website. To put it in other words: between Amazon retail (1P and 3P), devices and Prime Video, hardly a day goes by when fewer than 100 million people touch Amazon.
• Its recent standout innovation AmazonGo is truly revolutionary, while other retailers have introduced their own checkout-free scan-and-go services, Amazon Go’s “Just Walk Out Shopping” technology has taken that convenience experience up several notches.
• For the Go stores, Amazon can claim that it has solved stealing, maybe someone
could hack the bar code on entry – but for the moment shoplifting has been abolished. The concept uses Amazon’s amazing computer abilities (using AmazonPay and AWS of course, also the computer vision also used in its facial recognition software) to scale, just as the retailer created synergies between prime, marketplace and FBA.
• In future, Amazon could grow the concept and license the cashierless technology to other convenience retailers. (We are really curious what Amazon’s preconditions would be for this – such as prime membership for a rival retailer’s shoppers to use the service?)
• Moving from Amazon’s front end stores to logistics, one can claim that Amazon is now a better logistics operator than Walmart, as it has grown its footprint of fulfillment centres, sort centers and so on – and indeed the entire Amazon Logistics business. The comparison between the two is especially enlightening when looking at delivery speed. Walmart’s two
million items (for two day shipping) is no match for Amazon’s one hundred million (prime eligible). And now Amazon is moving towards one – day prime deliveries as standard, as always keeping several steps ahead of the competition.
• Amazon has also been highly innovative with its new warehouse and sort center robots Xanthus and Pegasus (In September 2017 Amazon had > 100k robots in their warehouses, now there are 200k) – and in future the use of drones, self driving cars and delivery robots on the other end of last mile fulfillment.
• In terms of the marketplace there have been major changes also. In future it looks like Amazon will de-emphasize its 1 Party business and let 3P take over (apart from selected categories that are important for overall branding and shopper experience), as the marketplace generates much better margins, service sales outpace product sales, and 3P relationships can often be self service.
Table of contents
Executive summary: Amazon 2019 | p7 |
Data | p13 |
Data and KPIs: Net Sales & Income, Margin 2008-18, adding $55.0bn in 2018 | p14 |
Data and KPIs: Net Sales & Income, Margin 2008-15, Analysis | p15 |
Data and KPIs: US, international, AWS sales, in $m, % split, growth, 2013-2018 | p16 |
Data and KPIs: US, international, AWS sales, Analysis | p17 |
Revenues, Financials, KPIs, Benchmarks in Amazon geographies | p18 |
Data and KPIs: International sales by country, in $m, % split, growth, 2008-2018 | p19 |
Active customer accounts per Amazon geography and annual basket spend | p22 |
Data and KPIs: Active customer accounts in m, by country 2009-18, growth | p23 |
Data and KPIs: Active customer accounts, Analysis | p24 |
Data and KPIs: Average annual spend per country 2011-18 in local currency | p25 |
Data and KPIs: Average annual spend 2011 – 18e on AMZN 1P, Analysis | p26 |
Shopper research: loyalty, search, prime, brands presence, voice | p27 |
Shopper research: unique visitors, frequency, Amazon winning in clothing | p28 |
Shoppers: how Amazon reaches untapped potential – discounted prime | p29 |
Shoppers: how Amazon reaches untapped potential – Amazon PayCode | p30 |
Shoppers: how Amazon reaches untapped potential – Amazon Cash | p31 |
Shoppers: how Amazon reaches untapped potential – language options | p32 |
Marketplace | p33 |
Data: net sales by geography, average price, total units, customers, frequency 2018 | p34 |
Data: average price, total units, customers, frequency per country, Analysis | p35 |
Data: 3P share of GMV in % 1999-2018 | p36 |
Data: 1P sales in US$m, 3P sales, % splits, GMV 2014-2018 | p37 |
Marketplace: 14 global stores, appstore, 3P as largest online retailer in the US | p38 |
Marketplace: more than 3.5k sellers join every day, seller structure | p39 |
Marketplace: The World’s Top Amazon Marketplace Sellers 2018, Momox | p40 |
Marketplace: Chinese sellers are taking over | p41 |
Marketplace: Amazon wants more exclusive brands from manufacturers | p42 |
Marketplace: will Amazon shift its suppliers from 1P to 3P? And if so, when? | p43 |
Marketplace: first trial balloon of tactic in March, blamed on tech glitch | p44 |
Marketplace: the strength of the Amazon marketplace, vendor/seller decision | p45 |
Prime | p46 |
Data and KPIs: The Prime Universe | p47 |
Data and KPIs: Prime account holders in m per country 2009-18 | p48 |
Prime: the all-you-can-eat, physical-digital hybrid | p49 |
Prime: Prime: more successful at getting customers to cross shop than any other initiative | p50 |
Prime: Most successful tool to get buy-in to new categories, net costs, uplifts | p51 |
Prime: the 7 key prime benefits to Amazon | p52 |
Prime: Prime fee income 2015 in US$m, USA, Germany, Japan, UK, France, other | p53 |
Prime: Prime fee income 2016/17 in US$m, USA, Germany, Japan, UK, France, other | p54 |
Prime: Prime fee income 2018 in US$m, USA, Germany, Japan, UK, France, other | p55 |
Prime: Reconciliation Prime fee income 2015-18 with reported AMZN stats | p56 |
Prime: the move to one day shipping, costs of USD800 million in Q2 | p57 |
Prime: huge strain on Amazon logistics partners to move to one-day delivery | p58 |
AmazonGo | p59 |
Amazon Go: Store Visit - pictures | p60 |
Amazon Go: Amazon’s Most Ambitious Research Project | p62 |
Amazon Go: a footfall problem in Chicago? | p63 |
Amazon Go: from computer vision to sensor fusion | p64 |
Amazon Go: all physical Amazon stores at early stage still | p65 |
Amazon Go: immense costs for a magical shopper experience | p66 |
Amazon Go: will it become a $4bn business? | p67 |
Amazon Go: the economics of a Go store, basket size, frequency, sales density | p68 |
Amazon Go: the cost of the hardware, range limitations, packaging | p69 |
Amazon stores | p70 |
Amazon stores: Amazon Books store visit – pictures | p71 |
Amazon stores: PrimeNow picking station at WFM – pictures | p72 |
Amazon stores: brick-and-mortar strategy, all Whole Foods growth from delivery | p73 |
Amazon stores: changes at Whole Foods, prime discounts a success | p74 |
Amazon stores: WFM initially seen as offer to most affluent prime shoppers | p75 |
Amazon stores: designing a new grocery format distinct from WFM | p76 |
Amazon stores: “Grocery Shopping for Everyone” | p77 |
Amazon stores: “Presented by Amazon” as replacement for abandoned pop ups? | p78 |
Alexa | p79 |
Alexa: a rival to Apple’s AirPods, Amazon’s first Alexa Wearable | p80 |
Alexa: a strategic nightmare working through Apple and Google’s OS | p81 |
Alexa: the potential of voice payments | p82 |
Alexa: security concerns remain a substantial barrier | p83 |
Pill Pack | p84 |
Pill Pack: acquisition to crack the $500 billion prescription market | p85 |
Pill Pack: Amazon attacking another established equilibrium | p86 |
Pill Pack: a great prime benefit? | p87 |
Pill Pack: competing with the PBMs’ established mail order services | p88 |
Pill Pack: part of wider Amazon plan in health care, Haven and Alexa | p89 |
Pill Pack: learning to function like an Amazon business | p90 |
Amazon Business | p91 |
Amazon Business: overview | p92 |
Amazon Business: data, market shares, customer profiles | p93 |
Amazon Business: the next USD10bn breakout success | p94 |
Amazon Business: as a strategic partner in B2B | p95 |
Amazon Business: growth trajectory and forecast | p96 |
Outlook | p97 |
Outlook: Amazon 2020 forecast, 3P, 1P, GMV | p98 |
Outlook: Amazon 2020 building out the competitive moat | p99 |
Sources | p101 |
A bit more on ResearchFarm | p103 |
Charts Chart 1: Data: 3P share of GMV in % 1999-2018 | p36 |
Chart 2: The Prime Universe | p47 |
Chart 3: Amazon Business: overview | p92 |
Chart 4: Amazon Business: data, market shares, customer profiles | p93 |
Chart 5: Amazon Business: as a strategic partner in B2B | p95 |
Chart 6: Amazon Business: growth trajectory and forecast | p96 |
Tables Table 1: Data and KPIs: Net Sales & Income, Margin 2008-18, adding $55.0bn in 2018 | p14 |
Table 2: Data and KPIs: US, international, AWS sales, in $m, % split, growth, 2013-2018 | p16 |
Table 3: Data and KPIs: International sales by country, in $m, % split, growth, 2008-2018 (I) | p19 |
Table 4: Data and KPIs: International sales by country, in $m, % split, growth, 2008-2018 (II) | p20 |
Table 5: Data and KPIs: International sales by country, in $m, % split, growth, 2008-2018 (III) | p21 |
Table 6: Data and KPIs: Active customer accounts in m, by country 2009-18, growth | p23 |
Table 7: Data and KPIs: Average annual spend per country 2011-18 in local currency | p25 |
Table 8: Data: net sales by geography, average price, total units, customers, frequency 2018 | p34 |
Table 9: Data: 1P sales in US$m, 3P sales, % splits, GMV 2014-2018 | p37 |
Table 10: Marketplace: The World’s Top Amazon Marketplace Sellers 2018, Momox | p40 |
Table 11: Data and KPIs: Prime account holders in m per country 2009-18 | p48 |
Table 12: Prime fee income 2015 in US$m, USA, Germany, Japan, UK, France, other | p53 |
Table 13: Prime fee income 2016 in US$m, USA, Germany, Japan, UK, France, other | p54 |
Table 14: Prime fee income 2017 in US$m, USA, Germany, Japan, UK, France, other | p54 |
Table 15: Prime fee income 2018 in US$m, USA, Germany, Japan, UK, France, other | p55 |
Table 16: Reconciliation Prime fee income 2015-18 with reported AMZN stats | p56 |