--- description: A racy conspiracy theory explaining why Amazon is bigger than Walmart title: This News Anchor Claims to Know the Real Reason Behind Amazon's Success image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This News Anchor Claims to Know the Real Reason Behind Amazon's Success by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 27, 2015 3:25 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 27, 2015 3:25 PM CUT Amazon is now the most valuable retailer in the world, with a market value of about $250 billion, [compared to](http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/24/investing/amazon-worth-more-than-walmart/ "undefined") Walmart’s $230 billion. In a recent live TV news broadcast, an anchor for Nevada’s KTVN Channel 2 News shared his racy theory about why Amazon is beating Walmart in what ended up being a wonderfully bizarre outburst. “You know why?” he offered matter-of-factly. “Because they sell sex toys.” He then added some further clarification: “Walmart can’t or won’t sell sex toys. Amazon does. A friend of mine works in the warehouse and he says they sell a _ton_ of them. Nobody else will tell you this but that’s the reason.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3973050/amazon-walmart-news-anchor-theory/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3973050/amazon-walmart-news-anchor-theory/"},"headline":"This News Anchor Claims to Know the Real Reason Behind Amazon's Success","datePublished":"2015-07-27T15:25:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:36.114Z","description":"A racy conspiracy theory explaining why Amazon is bigger than Walmart","url":"https://time.com/3973050/amazon-walmart-news-anchor-theory/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3973050/amazon-walmart-news-anchor-theory/","name":"This News Anchor Claims to Know the Real Reason Behind Amazon's Success"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See The Unique Way Amazon Ships This Teddy Bear","description":"Go Behind the Scenes at Amazon to see how the products you buy make it to the shipping truck","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/IY8KG0y3/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-01T04:19:45.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IY8KG0y3.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3973050/amazon-walmart-news-anchor-theory/","duration":"PT2M54S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3973050/amazon-walmart-news-anchor-theory/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```