The Decline of Small Businesses
During the recent years,countless small busines seshave closed their doors and gone orne r grocer's ,the small dress shop,the beautysalon,all are victims of market ofthem are replaced by other small businesses thattemporarily fill the needs of the neighbourhood butfrequently end up,sharing the same fate ofdissolution. More often,the market served by smallbusinesses is taken over by large stores and nesses like the corner groceries and the dress shops have gone to big department storesand supermarkets,which not only keep adequate store and variety, but also provide betterenvironment and service.
Appar ently,it is increasingly difficult for small businesses to succeed in the present complexeconomic structure based,as it is,on small profit margins and tremendou s sales of enough fund and poor management may be the chief cause of this addition, thequality of their commodities often causes suspicion of the customers as many smallbusinesses are found to sell fake products for more profit, thus earning themselves an to shopping environment and convenient service, they are f the above speed up their bankruptcy.
Today,with the establishment of more and more groups and big corporations,how smallbusinesses can survive in the tide of the market competitive economy has become a hotsocial issue.
go bankrupt 破產
beauty salon 美容院
corne r grocer's 小街雜貨店
ma rket competiton 市場競爭
s har e the same fate 遭遇相同命運
be taken ove r by... 由……取代
small profit margins and tremendous volume 薄利多銷
cau se suspicion 引起懷疑
speed up 加速<
groups and big corporations 集團和大公司
survive in the tide of market competitive economy 在市場競爭經濟大潮中倖存
hot social issue 社會熱點[ 內 容 結 束 ]
