双语阅读英语外刊精讲：电子商务(附音频)

2018-12-11 13:53:08来源：酷学英语

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　　E-commerce

　　There be giants

　　Amazon and Alibaba represent a new type of conglomerate. How should rivals and governments adapt?

　　Shoppers will spend record sums online in the next few weeks-in China for Singles Day on November 11th, in America on Black Friday and around the world in the run-up to Christmas. E-commerce has been growing by 20% a year for a decade, shaking up industries from logistics to consumer goods. Nowhere does debate rage more fiercely about what this means than in America, where thousands of stores have shut this year and where retailing accounts for one in nine jobs.

　　Astonishingly, online shopping has only just got started. Last year it amounted to a mere 8.5% of the world’s retail spending. In America the share was about 10%. Its effects on business and society will be huge. Not just because retailing is a big employer that touches many industries, but also because its two greatest exponents, Jack Ma and Jeff Bezos, the founders of Alibaba and Amazon, have used it to amass a new sort of conglomerate. The question is whether its creation will foster competition or demand restraint.

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