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Unit 24 Society典句欣赏理解诱思【文章导语】 如果鞋子合脚,你却不买,鞋店老板可能会把你当作冒充顾客进店行窃的扒手——这种事情在不久以后可能成为现实。典句欣赏理解诱思Worried shopkeepers are increasingly frustrated by people they dub “fit-lifters” who use stores to find the best-fitting shoes before buying them online at a lower price.Bricks-and-mortar shops have higher salary and rental costs than Internet shops,and store owners say some online buyers are grabbing their resources.“You’ve come in and stolen that service basically,” said one shopkeeper.“It’s not that the salespeople didn’t have somebody else to serve who would have bought something.So not only have you stolen the wages.I have a loss of profit that he would have collected from another customer.①”It is common for online shoppers to research products in stores in other retail sectors such as bookselling—a practice named “showrooming”—and smartphones make it possible to buy online even while still in a store②.?典句欣赏理解诱思But the trend is causing a fierce argument in footwear because staff spend so much time fetching boxes and advising customers on comfort.Complaints have been heightened by the price advantage that Internet shops gain from the fact that many online shopkeepers do not have to pay state and local sales tax,which add between 5 and 10 per cent.Gary Weiner,owner of Saxon Shoes in Virginia said shoe-sellers were “very concerned” about fit-lifting.“We also hear ‘My mother sent me in to get my size fitted so she can buy them online’.Those exact words,” he said.“We’re a polite people.So we give them the time of day.”Asked if he had considered refusing,he said,“We think about it every single time.Do we say it?No.You can’t say it out loud.”典句欣赏理解诱思译文现在有一些人把商店当作试鞋间、选好最合适的款式后上网以更便宜的价格购买,忧心忡忡的店主们对这种事情感到越来越头疼,他们称这种人为“试穿贼”。与网店相比,实体商店的人员工资和租金成本更高。实体店的老板们称,一些网购顾客正在白蹭他们的资源。一个(实体店)店主说:“你来店里,然后基本上偷走了那项服务。销售人员并不是没有别的顾客要招呼,有那些真正想买点东西的顾客。因此,你偷走的不仅是(商店支付给销售人员的)工资,我还有本来可能从其他顾客那里获得的利润损失。”在图书等其他零售领域,网购者在商店里“研究产品”是很常见的行为——这种行为被称为“参观陈列室”——并且只要有智能手机,“参观者”在实体店里面时就可以在线购买某样产品。典句欣赏理解诱思但这种趋势在鞋业中引起了激烈的