Amazon says that more than half of the items it sells online actually come from small businesses. Fulfillment by Amazon lets small businesses offer Prime two-day shipping by preshipping their items to Amazon fulfillment centers. Small businesses sell 140 million items from the Thursday of Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday alone. The number of sellers on Amazon has more than doubled in the past five years, data analytics firm Potoo says. Small business owners have mixed opinions on Amazon and what it means for Main Street.”]
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/26/small-business-is-providing-big-power-behind-amazon.html