As Bill Shope, an equity analyst at JPMorgan, puts it, the music store is a "loss leader" that serves only to boost sales of the iPod. It is as if record stores existed only to sell record players.

正如摩根大通的一位权益分析师Bill Shope认为的，音乐商店仅仅是为促进iPod销售的廉价商品，仿佛唱片店的存在就是为了销售唱片播放机。

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Wal-Mart, after the 1960 Act of Congress, would say, hey we're a real estate investment trust, we own real estate--all these stores -but that's not what the intent of this bill was.

国会通过这部法案后,沃尔玛说我也是房地产投资信托基金,我也持有房地产,所有店铺都是房地产,但这并不是这部法案的本意

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Following years of lobbying by bricks-and-mortar stores, the US Senate is expected today to pass a bill that would help end tax-free online shopping.

经过实体商店多年的游说，美国参议院预计将在今日通过一项法案，将有助于终结网上购物免税的局面。

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Wal-Mart, after the 1960 Act of Congress, would say, hey we're a real estate investment trust, we own real estate--all these stores -but that's not what the intent of this bill was.

国会通过这部法案后,沃尔玛说我也是房地产投资信托基金,我也持有房地产,所有店铺都是房地产,但这并不是这部法案的本意

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Critics of the bill say thousands of California businesspeople will have to shutter their stores and fire employees if the bill becomes law.

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Mr Wilson explained that the primary purpose of the bill was to introduce a temporary levy on larger retail stores in order to relive the rates burden on smaller businesses.

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Focus DIY was founded by Bill Archer in 1987, with six stores in the Midlands and the north of England.

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