Answer: 562 million!

Questions:

• With so many items in their "store," do you find it easy or difficult to find what you are looking for on their website? 
• What can Amazon do that a traditional brick and mortar store cannot do? 
• A typical Costco store only carries about 4,000 items and is succeeding based on consumer demand. How do you think they can compete against a company like Amazon? 

Here's the ready-to-go slides for this Question of the Day that you can use in your classroom. 

Top 5 categories:

Behind the numbers (ScrapeHero)

The category Clothing, Shoes, and Jewelry have the highest number of products -166.28M products! Amazon’s apparel business has been booming the past year. It’s predicted that Amazon will soon end up with net apparel sales of 62 billion in 2021.

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Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.

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