Amazon makes $14,900 every second, which makes it $894,000 per minute and over $53 million in just 1 hour.
In 2013 (August), Amazon’s website went down for 40 minutes. Despite being such a short duration, it lost almost $5 million worth of sales (we calculate this number based on its 2013 stats. It made 15.7 billion USD in the last quarter with $120,000 every minute on average).
One may say that this incident is the ultimate depiction of the phrase – every minute counts.
There are plenty of reasons why shoppers choose Amazon as their No.1 destination to shop for anything.
Some of them are super fast delivery, amazing customer service, and reasonable prices with numerous alternatives.
