CNN News: 梅西百貨

10 Second Trivia.Which of these U.S. department stores was founded first? Macy's, Sears, J.C.Penny or Bloomingdales. Macy's chases it's roots back to the 1850s' making itthe oldest department store on this list.
10秒快速問(wèn)答。以下哪一家美國(guó)百貨公司最早成立?梅西百貨、西爾斯百貨、J.C. Penny百貨或布魯明戴爾百貨。梅西百貨追根溯源到19世紀(jì)50年代，成為榜單上最古老的百貨公司。

Macy's recently announced that it plans to close 125 of its stores over the next three years. That's almost one-fifth of all its locations. It expects 2,000 jobs to be lost and the company is hoping this will help it save money and better adapt to the changing ways in which people shop.
梅西百貨最近宣布，計(jì)劃在未來(lái)三年內(nèi)關(guān)閉125家門店。這幾乎占了其所有門店的五分之一。預(yù)計(jì)將有2000人失業(yè)，該公司希望這將有助于節(jié)省資金，并更好地適應(yīng)人們不斷變化的購(gòu)物方式。

This is especially bad news in struggling malls. The ones where foot traffic has decreased simply because fewer and fewer people are shopping there. Macy's is an anchor store.
于苦苦掙扎的購(gòu)物中心來(lái)說(shuō)，這尤其是個(gè)壞消息。那些因?yàn)橘?gòu)物的人越來(lái)越少而導(dǎo)致人流量減少的地方。梅西百貨是一家旗艦店。

A major retail location that brings in a lot of shoppers that in turn visit the smaller stores around it. So take away an anchor store and the whole mall can suffer. Macy's isn't alone though. Thousands of stores closed across America last year. Some analysts have called this a sort of "retail apocalypse" but people are still spending money. They're just doing it differently and away from traditional shopping malls.

一個(gè)主要的零售地點(diǎn)，吸引了很多購(gòu)物者，而這些購(gòu)物者又會(huì)光顧附近的小商店。因此，如果取消一家旗艦店，整個(gè)購(gòu)物中心都會(huì)遭殃。不過(guò)，梅西百貨并不是唯一一家。去年，全美數(shù)千家商店關(guān)門。一些分析師稱這是一種“零售業(yè)末日”，但人們?nèi)栽谙M(fèi)。他們只是在做不同的事情，遠(yuǎn)離傳統(tǒng)的購(gòu)物中心。