Amazon Dominated Online Retail Sales in 2013

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Melissa Goldin
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Amazon Dominated Online Retail Sales in 2013
An employee loads a truck with boxes to be shipped at the Amazon.com Inc. distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. U.S. retailers are extending deals into Cyber Monday and beyond to try to sustain a 13 percent gain in Thanksgiving weekend sales. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Amazon's 2013 e-commerce sales totaled more than those of the nine other largest U.S. merchants, combined, according to data from Internet Retailer, an e-commerce research firm.

The online retail giant topped the charts at $67.9 billion -- that's $49.6 billion more than the second-largest online retailer, Apple, which clocked in at $18.3 billion. Traditional big-box chains such as Walmart and Staples took third and fourth place, respectively. Netflix, at no. 7, also cracked the top 10 with $4.4 billion. Dell came in at no. 10 with $3.6 billion.

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Amazon announced a wearable-technology store late last month, and as of Monday, it now lets customers add items to their shopping carts directly from Twitter. The site's sales totaled $19.7 billion in the first quarter of 2014, meeting expectations.

The following chart, created by Statista, shows how Amazon's 2013 sales compare to its competitors:

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