Decisions to reorder or return goods to suppliers can then be made.

然后可以做出重新订购或退货给供应商的决定。

The dad would then have to return the goods or if they were gone he’d have to pay.

然后父亲将不得不退货， 否则如果他们走了， 他就得付钱。

(In January, Father Christmas's elves must conduct " sniff tests" to see if a garment has been worn.) Increasingly, retailers are charging shoppers to return goods.

（在一月份，圣诞老人的精灵们必须进行“嗅觉测试”，检查衣服是不是全新的。）越来越多零售商对购物者退货收取费用。

We aren't prepared to jeopardise our reputation by selling anything which is not perfect. Customers haven't got time to waste on returning sub-standard goods to the shops.

我们的确不能让这类事情发生。我们不应该由于卖不完美的货物而损害我们的声誉。顾客没有时间浪费在去商店退不合格的货物上。

Tony Mannix, CEO of Clipper, a logistics firm that handles returned goods for major retailers, said about 5% of them end up " being binned" .

为大型零售商处理退货的物流公司 Clipper 的首席执行官托尼·曼尼克斯 (Tony Mannix) 表示，其中约 5% 的退货最终“被扔进垃圾箱” 。

" Oh! no. On the contrary, I have come to return some goods. Yes, some door-curtains which I don't like. But there is such a crowd that I am waiting to get near the department" .

“哦！不是。相反，我是来退货的。是的，一些我不喜欢的门帘。但是人多，我等着靠近部门。”