[+ object] 1  He quit his job. 2  She quit college after one semester. 3  She decided to quit show business. 4  He quit teaching after five years.
Figure 1 shows that the average customer now spends $313 per year at Amazon.com on 3P and Amazon direct merchandise combined. Figure 1: Customer Annual Retail Spend on Amazon per Active Account. Figure 2 shows the growth rates of both customer spending and total active customer accounts for Amazon since CY09 Q4.
If delivery expenses go up by about 5 percent, Amazon would be paying about $275 million more in 2014 than it shelled out this year. That alone would absorb a major portion of the $336 million that analysts estimate Amazon will make next year.