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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (87215)	12/12/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: Eric Wells	Read Replies (4) of 164684

That's $256,700 per employee William - here are some stats for Wal*Mart and Barnes & Noble (BKS - the bricks & mortar one). Note that data for WMT and BKS is for trailing 12 months ending Oct., 1999. Also note that the $500 million loss for AMZN is a guess (just as the $1.5b revenue number is that you provided) - the actual AMZN loss may be higher. Company Employees Rev Rev/Emp Profit Profit/Emp AMZN 6000 $1.5b $256,000 -$500m -$83,000 BKS 15,200 $3.19b $209,868 +$131m +$8651 WMT 901,000 $156.2b $171,648 +$5.08b +$5582 My conclusion: yes, Amazon has more revenue per employee, but not much. Profit per employee though - well, it's a point to ponder. -Eric

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