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AS IT IS 2016-07-20 Cuba Opens First Private Wholesale1 Store 古巴开办第一个批发市场

Cuba's new entrepreneurs have complained that one of the things missing from President Raul Castro’s reforms is a wholesale market.

Currently, restaurant owners, hairdressers and snack-store owners have to buy their products in supermarkets at the same high prices as everyday consumers.

But one store may show that change is coming to Cuba.

At Zona+, produce is piled high up to the ceiling, like in a warehouse2. Shop employees say the plan is eventually to sell everything in large amounts at discounted rates. They want to focus specifically on giving discounts to small businesses.

So far, Zona+ is offering only a few goods in bulk for reduced prices. But shoppers at Zona+ said it already has an advantage because it has more items than other stores in Cuba. Usually Cuba's supermarkets are half-empty.

Officials at CIMEX, the state commercial corporation that owns Zona+, declined to comment.

Last April, the Cuban government announced that some small companies would be able to buy supplies directly from government producers and wholesale outlets3 for the first time. However, this announcement did not say whether the reform would extend to the private sector4.

Cuba often likes to experiment with ideas before making them official and extending them across the country. Reforms can also be reversed.

Words in This Story

entrepreneur – n. a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money

wholesale – n. the business of selling things in large amounts to other businesses rather than to individual customers

in bulk – n. in large quantities

advantage – n. something (such as a good position or condition) that helps to make someone or something better or more likely to succeed than others

declined – v. to say that you will not or cannot do something

private sector – n. the part of an economy which is not controlled or owned by the government

reversed – v. to change your decision or opinion about something


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1 wholesale Ig9wL     
n.批发;adv.以批发方式;vt.批发,成批出售
参考例句:
  • The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物,以零售价卖出。
  • Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。
2 warehouse 6h7wZ     
n.仓库;vt.存入仓库
参考例句:
  • We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
  • The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
3 outlets a899f2669c499f26df428cf3d18a06c3     
n.出口( outlet的名词复数 );经销店;插座;廉价经销店
参考例句:
  • The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4 sector yjczYn     
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
参考例句:
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

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