In 1989, about a year after we went public, we had a horrible problem related to inventory management.

989年，也就是我们上市的第二年，我们在库存管理方面,遇见了极大的困难。

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Oh, there's a man at the store and now we have a loop where he is just looking through my inventory one at a time and reciting what it is I actually picked up.

商店里有一个人,现在我们有一个循环,通过这个循环他可以看到我的库存,然后显示出来我实际上都采摘了哪些水果。

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And we learned a lot about how to do that correctly and arguably became best in the world at managing inventory and dealing with technology transitions after that near-death experience.

我们从中学会了,该如何正确地完成转型,现在可以算是世界上,库存管理地最好的公司之一,也成为了最会应对技术转型的公司。

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What you normally do is you go to a dealer and a dealer is someone, a professional, who participated in the auction and bought these up to accumulate an inventory to then sell off to you, the customer.

你通常会去找一些中间商,中间商是专业从业者,他们参与拍卖,积蓄库存,再转销给一般顾客

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