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Storefronts features “Curated Collections” including seasonal-themed sections like back-to-school and Halloween and very generic sections like home, kitchen, jewelry, pet supplies, and electronics. There’s also a “Meet the Business Owners” section which features shops owned by “artisans,” families, women, and “innovator makers.” It’s a move to position Amazon as a friendly corporate giant, one which encourages entrepreneurship and the revitalization of small businesses.
How Amazon defines a small business
Earlier this year, the company published a Small Business Impact Report, which is three slides long and says that “small and medium-sized businesses selling on Amazon have created more than 900,000 jobs.” The Storefront homepage banners says “small and medium-sized” businesses make half of all of the products sold on Amazon.
A representative from Amazon says that “small” and “medium” businesses are defined by the number of employees a business has and the amount of revenue it brings in: small businesses have fewer than 100 employees and less than $50 million in yearly revenue, medium-sized businesses have fewer than 1,000 employees and less than $1 billion in yearly revenue.
Storefronts will be marketed with a colloquial understanding of what a small business is, but function using a definition that includes basically anything less than a publicly-traded global brand.
