The largest online retailer is an awesome one-stop shop, but while it’s very convenient to just order everything from Amazon, it’s not always going to give you the best bang for your buck—even if you use Subscribe and Save or have Amazon Prime. Kiplinger, via Shopping.com, has highlighted nine items you should probably skip buying on Amazon.
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Is It Actually Cheaper to Order Everything from Amazon?
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Clothing and shoes top the list, primarily because clothing stores and online shoe stores can greatly discount these items with coupons and such, and Amazon doesn’t. And while the Amazon Mom program might save you a bunch on brand-name diapers, store-brand diapers will still be cheaper at places like Target or Walmart.
Type of site
E-commerceAvailable inEnglish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, TurkishTraded asNASDAQ: AMZN
NASDAQ-100 Component
S& P 100 Component
S& P 500 ComponentFoundedJuly 5, 1994; 22 years ago ( as Cadabra)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.HeadquartersSeattle, Washington, U.S[1][2][3]Area servedWorldwideOwnerJeff Bezos ( 17% )[4][5]Founder( s) Jeff BezosKey peopleJeff Bezos ( Chairman, President and CEO)
Werner Vogels ( CTO)
Andrew Jassy ( CEO, AWS)
Jeff Wilke ( CEO, Consumer) IndustryInternetProductsAppstore, AWS, The Book Depository, comiXology, Game Studios, Video, Instant Video UK, Instant Video German, Audible, Kindle, Fire, Lab126, Studios, Twitch.tv, Woot, Echo, MyHabit.com( closed) , [6] Shopbop, [7]Askville[8]ServicesOnline shopping
Cloud computing
Digital distributionRevenue? US$135.98 billion ( 2016) [9]Operating income? US$4.186 billion ( 2016) [9]Net income? US$2.371 billion ( 2016) [9]Total assets? US$83.402 billion ( 2016) [9]Total equity? US$19.285 billion ( 2016) [9]Employees? 341, 000 ( 2017) [10][11]SubsidiariesA9.com, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Alexa Internet, Audible.com, comiXology, Digital Photography Review, Goodreads, Internet Movie Database, Junglee.com, Twitch.tv, Zappos, Souq.comSlogan( s) Work hard, have fun, make historyWebsiteamazon.com ( original U.S. site)
Various national sitesAlexa rank? 11 ( Global, May 2017) [12]AdvertisingWeb banners, videosLaunchedJuly 5, 1994[13]Written inC+ and Java[14]