备战2010年6月英语四级考前每日一练(2)
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The recession is taking a serious toll on American retail, but e-commerce could emerge as a winner.
According to a new report by Forrester Research, e-commerce sales (beyond travel) are likely to 67 11%, to $156 billion, in 2009. That 68 a slowdown from 13% growth last year and18% in 2007. The major factor 69 to the pace shift is, of course, 70 consumer confidence.
But e-commerce's slowed pace is still far better than the National Retail Federation's forecasted 0.5% drop in 71 retail sales this year.
That means e-commerce is stealing market share from 72 retail—and fast. 73 Forrester's estimates, in 2008 e-commerce 74. for 5% of all retail sales. In 2012, Forrester thinks ecommerce could have an 8% share.
One recent factor is that online shopping promises 75 to price-sensitive consumers. "There cession is definitely 76 more consumers to do their homework before they go and complete a(n)77 ," says Forrester analyst Such arita Mulpuru.E-commerce is also somewhat protected because online shoppers 78 to be wealthier:about half of all online shopping is done by households that earn more than $75,000 per year, even though they're just about a third of all households with Internet 79.
80 not all Internet companies are set to benefit 81 . Last month, e-commerce giant eBay82 its first-ever quarterly revenue decline,83 Amazon reported a sales surge of 18%.
Smaller players are particularly 84 risk.
"There are some pretty vicious (恶意的) wars ascompanies go online to get market share," says Mulpuru. "The 85 I have is that we could go back down the spiral (螺旋) of death from 1999and 2000, when companies would under-price themselves 86 thinking about profitability (盈利).”
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