百货公司的衰退始于60年代。首先是紧邻百货公司的专营商和折扣商店抢了百货公司的生意。然后是品类杀手,比如只经营电子产品和玩具的专卖店,接着是线上零售商,正是当前的威胁。美国最大的百货商店集团希尔斯控股集团是最惨的。彭尼的的消费者大都转战折扣店T.J. Maxx去了。
It would be tempting to write off department stores altogether if some were not doingsurprisingly well. Same-store sales at Nordstrom, a Seattle-based luxury retailer, have risenby 7.5% on average over the past three years. Those of Macys, which operates mainly in thetougher middle market, rose by 4.5% . Department stores started collecting data about their customersthrough loyalty-card schemes long before their rivals, says Mortimer Singer of Marvin TraubAssociates, a consultancy. When these relationships shift to tablets and smartphones and arelinked to modern logistics and inventory management, department stores have a fightingchance.
但是还是有些百货商店做的不错。立足于西雅图的奢侈品零售商诺德斯特姆公司的同店销售额过去三年平均增长率为7.5%。梅西百货立足于竞争激烈的中端市场,销售额提高了4.5%。Marvin Traub Associates咨询公司的Mortimer Singer表示,百货商店通过忠诚卡计划开始收集消费者信息远远早于其竞争对手。当这些关系转移到平板电脑和智能手机上的时候,加上现代物流体系和库存管理,百货公司还有翻身的机会。
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