<story><title>Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/jeff-bezos-just-confirmed-amazon-s-growth-is-slowing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonas21</author><text>It seems that Amazon grew its annual sales by around $50 billion from 2017 to 2018 for a growth rate of &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; 19% (compared with 24% the year before). I&amp;#x27;m not exactly concerned for them.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;In 2018, Amazon’s nearly $300 billion in GMV was about a 19 percent jump from the prior year. That was notably slower than the rates of increase of 24 percent and 27 percent, respectively, in 2017 and 2016.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/jeff-bezos-just-confirmed-amazon-s-growth-is-slowing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>I think the poor management of 3rd party sellers is at least part of it.  I&amp;#x27;ve had several bad experiences with slow shipping, &amp;quot;out of stock&amp;quot; after the sale, items very much not as described, counterfeits, etc.  And crazy bad support from those sellers...English bad enough that I couldn&amp;#x27;t understand the response.&lt;p&gt;I now only buy a very specific subset of what I used to buy there.</text></comment>