Toast (NYSE: TOST) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) changed how restaurants and merchants, respectively, operate their businesses. Toast's cloud-based platform for restaurants bundled together guest and kitchen displays, payment processing devices, and tools for online orders, reservations, loyalty plans, and payroll management.

Amazon, the largest e-commerce company in the world by annual revenue, became synonymous with online sales across most of its markets. It sells products through its first-party and third-party online marketplaces, and it operates brick-and-mortar stores through its own Amazon Go and Fresh banners and its Whole Foods Market subsidiary.

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