Recently made a new friend via my big box of cables! Moved to new street. Didn't know anyone. Joined local chat group. Someone looking for mini-b cable. Took one over. Got talking about old digital cameras and photography. W.

What metic are you using? Shopify takes an average of ~$1bn at checkout daily while Amazon is over 2bn.

Yes, Shopify GMV is roughly half of Amazon.

Combined Shopify sales are ~half of Amazon's but growing quicker. Shopify probably supports more sales per engineer than Amazon's retail stack team.

Amazon also has AWS as infra though, they only do retail as a side gig

They also have enormous fulfillment services. Shopify doesn't handle that part.

They also have video and music streaming. And Kindle Unlimited.