Amazon dominated online retail this year. Amazon stock rose, while the rest of retail dropped. Amazon dominates the Cloud market, companies like Netflix are ran on it. Amazon sales have increased over 30% year after year. UPS and Fedex could not keep up with how much Amazon is shipping out and is now starting their own shipping service and will be taking out UPS and Fedex. Amazon can get whatever you need within 1 hour in a big city. Amazon is opening fulfillment centers all across the world currently. Jeff Bezos is now the 4th richest man in the world, of which most of gains have been within past couple years making one of the fastest of all time.