首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
It was going to have roughly the effect of a neutron bomb attack on high streets and shop ping malls. The buildings would be lef
It was going to have roughly the effect of a neutron bomb attack on high streets and shop ping malls. The buildings would be lef
admin
2010-11-02
98
问题
It was going to have roughly the effect of a neutron bomb attack on high streets and shop ping malls. The buildings would be left standing but the people would vanish. Such was the superior efficiency of selling things via the Internet that brick-and-mortar stores would be unable to compete on price, choice or even service. Book and music sellers had already been "Amazoned". Soon web-based "category-killers", in everything from toys to pet supplies, would overwhelm their physical-world competitors. Shoppers would never be more than a mouse-click from the best deals. Traditional retailers, terrified of cannibalizing (同类相食) sales and destroying the value of their expensive properties, were already too late to meet the challenge. "In some categories," said Mary Meeker, a seer (预言家) of the Internet at Morgan Stanley, "it’s already game over."
These are convenient beliefs for anyone justifying some e-commerce share prices, but they are already mostly wrong. The reasons should surprise no one. The Internet is not a dominant technology but rather a network of people. It is a rich and highly flexible means of communicating that is rapidly achieving pervasiveness because more and more people find it easy and convenient to use. But it is those people’s preferences that will count; and for most people, shopping is more than just a means to an end. Even if the Internet provided a perfectly efficient way to shop it would not provide a satisfactory alternative to the physical enjoyment of sniffing a ripe melon, say, or trying on a cashmere sweater.
Of course, some products, such as music and banking, can be distributed electronically with success and cost saving. But most purchases cannot be reduced to digital code. And distributing physical goods is cumbersome (笨重的) and expensive. Behind even the most exciting user interface there are old-fashioned warehouses and lorries, customers who decline to sit at home waiting for purchases to arrive, and goods that must be re-wrapped and expensively returned. No wonder that the cost of getting goods to customers’ homes so often soaks up the notional price advantages of e-commerce.
What Internet shoppers have quickly realized is that the web is an addition to, and not a substitute for, their shopping habits. It is wonderful for gathering up-to-date information about products and prices. Cyber Dialogue, a research firm, estimates that in 1998 23m Americans sought information online, but then made their purchases offline, compared with only 17.7m who did the whole thing online.
According to Mary Meeker, ______.
选项
A、traditional retailers can’t compete with online ones on price, choice or service
B、the battle between traditional retailers and online retailers is over
C、online retailers have prevailed over traditional ones in the market of certain products
D、online retailers have destroyed the value of traditional retailers’ properties
答案
C
解析
结合上文可以知道Mary Meeker所说的the game是指网上零售商和传统零售商的销售竞争,她认为在某些类别(也就是在某些产品的销售方面)胜负已分,即网上零售商占领了市场,传统零售商无力反抗,据此可推断选项C为本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/fAs7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
TodayAmericanparentsarefindingthemselvesina【B1】______abouthowtodealwithteenagedrinking,aserioussocialproblem.
A、Childhoodinhisnativehome,Texas.B、WorkingascongressionalsecretaryinWashington.C、VacationingathisranchinTexas.
A、Theweatheryesterday.B、Apollutedriver.C、Hotelaccommodations.D、Thequalityoftheair.D从Thepollution’sgoingtobeso
A、Themanisanexceptionalstudentandwillwritetheexamfortheclass.B、Circumstanceswillnotpermitthestudenttotaket
Somepeoplecannotlearninordinaryschools.Oftensomephysicalor【B1】______handicappreventsachildfromlearning.Ineduca
Opinionpollsarenowbeginningtoshowthat,whoeveristoblameandwhateverhappensfromnowon,highunemploymentisprobabl
OneofthebasicingredientsofAmericanpopularcultureisconsumption,anditistheadvertisingindustrythatmakesmasscons
A、Totraineffectiveleaders.B、Toimprovemanagers’interpersonalskills.C、Toteachcommunicationskillstointrovertedsuperv
Somesaythatnothingismorevividormemorablethanapicture.Wedisagree.Novisualimageisasvividastheimagecreatedb
A、Hehasmanypets.B、Hehasthreechildren.C、Hedoesn’tneedalargerhouse.D、Hiswifeispregnant.D由男士所说的She’shavingabab
随机试题
子宫脱垂的非手术治疗方法包括________、________、________。
糖皮质激素采用隔日疗法可避免
王先生,65岁,高血压8年。病人睡眠中突感极度胸闷、气急、大汗、咳嗽、咳痰带血,端坐呼吸,BP180/110mmHg,HR110次/分。该病人长期血压增高容易引起哪些脏器的并发症
危重病人病情恶化的最主要指征是
A市甲企业委托B市乙企业加工一批应税消费品,该批消费品应缴税款应由乙企业向B市税务机关解缴。( )
12,3,4,2,2,1,()。
磷酸铁(FePO4.2H2O难溶于水的米白色固体)可用于生产药物、食品添加剂和锂离子电池的正极材料,实验室可通过下列实验制备磷酸铁。向滤液中加入一定量H2O2氧化Fe2+。为确定加入H2O2的量,需先用K2Cr2O7标准溶液滴定滤液中的Fe2+,离子方
过去十年,地产一直是民间大额财富主要配置对象,经济也依靠地产黄金十年和基建投资实现腾飞。但伴随行业供过于求、政策收紧以及经济结构转型,地产黄金十年荡然无存。《每日经济新闻》记者注意到,平安证券研报称,1998年取消住房实物分配以来,中国商品房市场
G={(x,y)|x2+y2≤r2}是以原点为圆心,半径为r的圆形区域,而随机变量X和Y的联合分布是在区域G上的均匀分布.试确定随机变量X和Y的独立性和相关性.
ThelargepopulationsandimpressiveculturalachievementsoftheAztecs,theMayas,andtheIncascouldnothavecomeaboutwit
最新回复
(
0
)