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This statistic illustrates Amazon.com's fulfillment expenses from 2001 to 2011. In 2010, Amazon's fulfillment expenses amounted to 2.90 billion U.S. dollars and increased to 4.57 billion U.S. dollars in 2011. From 2008 to 2011, the company’s fulfillment expenses increased by 176 percent, from 1.7 billion U.S. dollars to 4.6 billion U.S. dollars.