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retail

英 ['riːteɪl] 美['ritel]

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vt. 零售；转述
vi. 零售
n. 零售
adv. 以零售方式
adj. 零售的
n. (Retail)人名；(法)勒塔伊

考试真题

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay.

He owned a small retail business in Michigan years ago.

At the most cutting-edge retail stores —Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

That relative strength would be consistent with what was seen in the wider retail industry during the early part of the holiday season.

Its retail sales exceeded those of T.J.Maxx.

It poses a potential threat to the retail business in the U.S.

However, characteristics associated with modern consumer culture mean produce is often wasted through retail and customer behaviour.

But before you dump all of your retail stocks, there are more facts you should consider.

In the peak of the dot.com bubble, brick and mortar retail was one of those industries the internet was going to kill—and quickly.

It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array of internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy.

It is becoming increasingly clear that retail reinvention isn't a simple battle to the death between bricks and clicks.

It is certain that the Census procedures, which lump the online sales of major traditional retailers like Walmart with "'non-store retailers" like food trucks, can mask major changes in individual retail categories.

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

More than drones dropping a new supply of underwear on your doorstep, Apple's massively successful brick-and-mortar-and-glass retail stores and Amazon's small steps in the same direction are what should keep old-fashioned retailers awake at night.

Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one-click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience is filled with frictions.

Reading the earnings announcements of large retail stores like Macy's, Nordstrom, and Target is about as uplifting as a tour of an intensive care unit.

Retail prices for a handful of tomatoes at local markets have risen from $0.50 to $2.50.

Retail reinvention is not a simple process, and it's also not happening on what used to be called "Internet time".

So, despite all the talk about drone deliveries to your doorstep, all the retail executives expressing anxiety over consumers going online, and even a Presidential candidate exclaiming that Amazon has a " huge antitrust problem, " the Census data suggest

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

The big questions are which, if any, of the large traditional retailers will still be on the scene in a decade or two because they have successfully reinvented themselves, which new players will operate busy stores on Main Streets and maybe even in shoppi

The retail industry is getting "reinvented" as we describe in our new book Matchmakers.

The rise of the mobile phone has recently added a new level of complexity to the process of retail reinvention.

The turmoil on the ground in physical retail is hard to square with the Census data.

Their data show that only 0.8 percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016.

Transforming downtown areas so that they incorporate modem housing and improved walkability to local restaurants, retail, and entertainment—especially when combined with improved infrastructure for cyclists and public transit—makes them appeal to a more a

Unfortunately, part of the explanation is that the Census retail data are unreliable.

This development is boosting wholesale demand from the food service segment by 4 to 5 percent a year across Europe, compared with growth in retail demand of 1 to 2 percent.

Retail sales of food and drink in Europe’s largest markets are at a standstill, leaving European grocery retailers hungry for opportunities to grow.

Overall, Europe’s wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000—more than 40 percent of retail sales.

Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000— more than 40 percent of retail sales.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at las

overall, Europe's wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.

Retail trade groups praised the ruling, saying it levels the playing field for local and online businesses.

The losers, said retail analyst Neil Saunders, are online-only retailers, especially smaller ones.