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Shoppers on Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season in America, are notoriously aggressive. Some even
Shoppers on Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season in America, are notoriously aggressive. Some even
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2012-07-05
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Shoppers on Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season in America, are notoriously aggressive. Some even start queuing outside stores before dawn to be the first to lay their hands on heavily discounted merchandise. Despite the frenzy at many stores, however, the recession appears to have accelerated the pace at which shoppers are abandoning bricks and mortar (传统的 实体企业) in favor of online retailers—e-tailers. So this year Black Friday also marks the start of many conventional retailers’ attempts to regain the initiative.
E-commerce holds particular appeal in straitened times as it enables people to compare prices across retailers quickly and easily. Buyers can sometimes avoid local sales taxes online, and shipping is often free. No wonder, then, that online shopping continues to grow even as the offline sort shrinks.
The shift in spending to the Internet is good news for companies like P&G that lack retail outlets (经销 店) of their own. But it is a big concern for brick-and-mortar retailers, whose prices are often higher than those of e-tailers, since they must bear the extra expense of running stores. Happily, however, conventional retailers are in a better position to fight back than last year, when overstocking forced them to resort to ruinous (破坏性的) discounting.
The most obviouis response to the growth of e-tailing is for conventional retailers to redouble their own efforts online. The online arms of big retailers are performing well, on the whole. Retailers are also trying to make shopping seem fun and exciting to counteract the economic gloom. One common tactic is to set up "pop-up" stores, which appear for a short time before vanishing again, to foster a sense of novelty and urgency. Following the lead of many bricks-and-mortar outfits, eBay recently launched a pop-up in New York where customers could inspect items before ordering them.
Stores are also trying to lure customers by offering services that are not available online. Lululemon athletica, which sells sports clothes, offers free yoga classes. Best Buy, a consumer-electronics retailer, has started selling music lessons along with its musical instruments. The idea is to bring people back to its shops regularly, increasing the likelihood that they will develop the habit of shopping there.
What can we learn from the third paragraph?
选项
A、Conventional retailers hold a better situation than last year.
B、E-retailers don’t have their own offline stores.
C、Conventional retailers make more profits from higher prices.
D、E-retailers are not faced with the problem of overstock.
答案
A
解析
细节辨认题。第三段主要讲述了消费者热衷于网上购物给传统零售商带来了挑战,传统零售商物价一般较高;但与去年相比,传统零售商今年的境况更好,因为去年库存积压,零售商们只得打折销售。故A)“传统零售商的境况好于去年”与文意相符,为正确答案。
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