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秒快速問答。以下哪一家美國百貨公司最早成立?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，計劃在未來三年內關閉125家門店。這幾乎占了其所有門店的五分之一。預計將有2000人失業(yè)，該公司希望這將有助于節(jié)省資金，并更好地適應人們不斷變化的購物方式。

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.
于苦苦掙扎的購物中心來說，這尤其是個壞消息。那些因為購物的人越來越少而導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.

一個主要的零售地點，吸引了很多購物者，而這些購物者又會光顧附近的小商店。因此，如果取消一家旗艦店，整個購物中心都會遭殃。不過，梅西百貨并不是唯一一家。去年，全美數(shù)千家商店關門。一些分析師稱這是一種“零售業(yè)末日”，但人們仍在消費。他們只是在做不同的事情，遠離傳統(tǒng)的購物中心。