Many of the biggest US retailers reported mixed earnings this week.

美国许多大零售商本周公布了喜忧参半的业绩。

Even Amazon, Walmart and Alibaba, the world's three biggest retailers, are trembling.

甚至连全球最大的三家零售商——亚马逊、沃尔玛和阿里巴巴都惶惶不安。

Big retailers already use data to improve the shopping experience on the front end.

大型零售商已经在使用数据改善前端顾客的购物体验了。

Ikea may be the biggest furniture retailer on the planet but it's certainly not conventional.

宜家可能是世界上最大的家具零售商，但它肯定不是传统的那一种。

Amazon shares have tumbled after the world's biggest online retailer issued a gloomy financial update.

全球最大的在线零售商亚马逊发布令人失望的最新财务报告，导致其股价大幅下跌。

And many of the country's biggest retailers decided to start the Halloween season early this year.

美国许多最大的零售商决定今年早些开始万圣节季。

According to the Commerce Department that's up nearly 15 percent from the previous year and big retailers have noticed.

美国商务部称，这一数字比前一年上升了近15%，大型零售商已经注意到了这一点。

It's the first time that the world's biggest furniture retailer has tried selling its products through a third party.

这是全球最大的家具零售商首次尝试通过第三方销售其产品。

Big retailers and logistics companies, such as Walmart, pledged also to work longer hours to keep goods flowing.

沃尔玛等大型零售商和物流公司也承诺延长工作时间，以保持货物流动。

Considered to be the Amazon or Walmart of its day, Sears went on to become one of America's biggest retailers.

Sears被认为是当时的亚马逊或沃尔玛，后来成为美国最大的零售商之一。

However, if a person is looking for a sport equipment, a big retailer in Italy I would recommend is Decathion.

不过，如果要购买运动器材，我想推荐的就是意大利的一家大型零售商 Decathion。

Most famous for its Alipay service, the group is affiliated with Alibaba, China's biggest online retailer, and its founder, Jack Ma.

该集团最著名的业务是支付宝服务，隶属于中国最大在线零售商阿里巴巴及其创始人马云(Jack Ma)。

REPORTER: Prism's clients range from supermarkets, to furniture stores, to big tech retailers.

记者：Prism 的客户范围从超市到家具店，再到大型科技零售商。

Even more poignant: Christmas toys have been seized from big retailers and distributed to the poor.

更令人心酸的是：大型零售商的圣诞玩具被没收并分发给了穷人。

And in the retail sector, especially for big retailers, one word has been coming up a lot lately on these calls.

在零售行业，尤其​​是大型零售商，最近在这些呼吁中出现了很多词。

I thought about that proposition for an hour, what that would then mean to the American economic landscape if some of the biggest retailers in the country started doing that?

我思考了一个小时，如果美国最大的一些零售商开始这样做，这对美国的经济前景意味着什么？

In the meantime, PRH authors have been the losers — as have customers, who might expect the new titles from the country's biggest publisher to be prominently displayed by its biggest book retailer.

与此同时，企鹅兰登书屋的作者们一直是输家——顾客也是，他们可能会期待该国最大出版商的新书会在最大的图书零售商的醒目位置摆放。

All in all, this clearly seems to be a market in which big retailers could profitably apply their gigantic scale, existing infrastructure, and proven skills in the management of product ranges, logistics, and marketing intelligence.

总而言之，这显然是一个大型零售商可以利用其庞大的规模、现有的基础设施和成熟的产品系列管理技能、物流和营销情报获利的市场。

Andrew Fano, a consultant in Accenture's Chicago office, reckons that at least six of America's ten biggest web retailers are now customising prices in some way, but it is hard for shoppers to spot when this is going on.

埃森哲咨询公司（Accenture）芝加哥分部的顾问Andrew Fano称，美国最大的十家的网络零售商中，最少六家现在或多或少地在使用个性化价格，但消费者本身很难发现自己所在的处境。

Yeah, so in the retail sector, people like Starbucks or Walgreens or Walmart, all the big retailers, both here in the US but in the UK, all around the world, use geographic factors to pick the right location.

是的，所以在零售业， 像星巴克、沃尔格林或沃尔玛这样的人，所有的大型零售商， 无论是在美国还是在英国， 在世界各地，都利用地理因素来选择合适的位置。