Photos: Compete Releases Top 25 Retail Web Sites for July 2009

Amazon.com Lands the Number One Spot, BedBathandBeyond.com Benefits from Back
to School and CVS.com Climbs the Ranks in Health and Beauty

BOSTON, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Compete, a TNS Media company, today released
an industry category snapshot - a monthly ranking of the top 25
most-trafficked retail Web sites. In July 2009, Amazon retained the top spot
on the list, continuing its steady 18-month rise in unique visitors as
consumers continue to flock to discount retailers to stretch their dollars
further. Though it didn't make the top 15, Bed Bath & Beyond experienced the
largest month-over-month gain on the list (21 percent) driven in part by
highly-active back-to-school shoppers. Finally, Walgreens exited the month
still leading rival CVS, but the distance between the nation's leading
pharmacies continues to shrink. CVS.com grew at a higher rate than
Walgreens.com for the month (15 percent versus 5 percent increase) and
continues to gain ground on Walgreens.com on the heels of CVS.com traffic
doubling year-over-year.

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Amazon Stays at Number One
Budget-conscious consumers seem to be finding a safe haven with the discount
retailers, and this, in part, helped Amazon.com retain its number-one spot on
the top 25 list. The site attracted 67.2 million unique visitors (UVs) in
July, more than double the traffic of the next closest retailer Walmart.
Amazon has benefited from consumer's flight to value online, as well as
growing consumer interest in its popular line of Kindle eBook readers.
Compete's analysis of Amazon's Kindle success continues here.

Going Back to School
Despite doomsday predictions for the 2009 back-to-school (BTS) shopping
season, the number of BTS searches - including terms like "school supplies"
and "back to school" - rose to 1.7 million in July 2009 (up from 1.2 million
UVs in July 2008). Among the top ranked retail sites, sites catering to
back-to-school shopping such as Staples, Target and Wal-Mart all experienced
traffic growth during July. Bed, Bath & Beyond (now number 18 on the list)
received the biggest month-over-month gain in July, however, increasing 21
percent. Compete's analysis of back-to-school trends continues here.

CVS Pushes Walgreens Online
Rounding out the storylines for July is the continued rise of CVS.com. Both
CVS.com and Walgreens.com saw their traffic rise month-over-month, but
CVS.com's growth outpaced that of its rival 15 percent versus 5 percent.
Although Walgreens.com continues to maintain a sizeable online lead over
CVS.com, the CVS.com has narrowed the gap of late. And, CVS.com traffic has
risen 103 percent year-over-year since the site was re-launched last summer.
Stay tuned for this ongoing competition for pharmacy visitors.

"Back-to-school shopping played a role in shaping the top 25 rankings this
month," said Matt Pace, managing director for retail and consumer products at
Compete. "With the August drop in U.S. consumer sentiment, online sales growth
heading into the fall will be a harbinger of retailers' fortunes for the
upcoming holiday season."

Each month, Compete takes a look at the top movers within one of its 225
industry categories. Month-over-month traffic gains for individual Web sites
can be a direct result of specific marketing or advertising campaigns. In this
way, the top-ranked sites become much more than a list, they are an effective
way to assess which competitors' strategies are working and why.

About Compete
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marketing based on the online behavior of millions of consumers. Leading
marketers such as Carlson Hotels Worldwide, Hyundai Motor America, Upromise,
Chrysler, and Verizon Wireless rely on Compete's services to create effective
online experiences and highly profitable advertising campaigns. Compete's
online behavior database-the largest in the industry-makes the Web as
ingrained in marketing as it is in people's lives.

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