第二次世界大战后，快餐店的兴起让整个社会充斥着工业生产的廉价食品。
The rise of fast-food restaurants after the Second World War produced a society full of cheap, industrially made foodstuffs.
但最重要的是，通过直接向被牢牢控制的大生产商购买产品，大型连锁店甩开了中间商。
But most importantly, by trading directly with the big producers they control, the big chains have cut out the middleman.
一些由工厂水车驱动的织布机，依然为一些礼品店生产茶巾，但是棉花生产已经很早就转移到了国外工资更低的地方去了。
A few looms, powered by the mill's water wheel, still produce tea towels for the gift shop, but cotton production has long since moved abroad in search of low wages.
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