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Amazon Business is a major threat to B2B distributors, but large distributors still have time to take action and come out ahead once the dust settles, and to succeed, distributors must embrace the new marketplace platform business model that Amazon also employs.

Walmart has thousands of stores that sell hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of goods, and it's particularly strong in suburban and rural areas and among low- and middle-income consumers, but it’s playing catch-up with online retailer Amazon, who is on a collision course with Walmart to try to be the predominant seller of pretty much everything you buy.