古巴开办第一个批发市场
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2016年VOA慢速英语(七)月
AS IT IS 2016-07-20 Cuba Opens First Private Wholesale 1 Store 古巴开办第一个批发市场
Cuba's new entrepreneurs have complained that one of the things missing from President Raul Castro’s reforms is a wholesale market.
Currently, restaurant owners, hairdressers and snack-store owners have to buy their products in supermarkets at the same high prices as everyday consumers.
But one store may show that change is coming to Cuba.
At Zona+, produce is piled high up to the ceiling, like in a warehouse 2. Shop employees say the plan is eventually to sell everything in large amounts at discounted rates. They want to focus specifically on giving discounts to small businesses.
So far, Zona+ is offering only a few goods in bulk for reduced prices. But shoppers at Zona+ said it already has an advantage because it has more items than other stores in Cuba. Usually Cuba's supermarkets are half-empty.
Officials at CIMEX, the state commercial corporation that owns Zona+, declined to comment.
Last April, the Cuban government announced that some small companies would be able to buy supplies directly from government producers and wholesale outlets 3 for the first time. However, this announcement did not say whether the reform would extend to the private sector 4.
Cuba often likes to experiment with ideas before making them official and extending them across the country. Reforms can also be reversed.
Words in This Story
entrepreneur – n. a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money
wholesale – n. the business of selling things in large amounts to other businesses rather than to individual customers
in bulk – n. in large quantities
advantage – n. something (such as a good position or condition) that helps to make someone or something better or more likely to succeed than others
declined – v. to say that you will not or cannot do something
private sector – n. the part of an economy which is not controlled or owned by the government
reversed – v. to change your decision or opinion about something
- The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物，以零售价卖出。
- Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。
- We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
- The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
- The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》