< p > July 28th, < a href= "http://? m.pmae.cn/news/index_c.asp" > WAL-MART < /a > Hangzhou Feng Qi shop, only one of the 40 cash registers is still serving customers.

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< p > that day is the last business day of WAL-MART Hangzhou Phoenix starting shop. From July 29th, the WAL-MART Hangzhou Phoenix shop will be closed.

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< p > < < a href= > http:// > m.pmae.cn/news/index_c.asp > > Ministry of Commerce > /a > monitoring of 5000 key retail enterprises, online shopping continues to exert pressure on traditional retail industry, which is 23%, 24.6% and 25.8% higher than that of professional stores, supermarkets and department stores.

In the depressed retail situation, most retail businesses choose to stop shop.

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< p > statistics show that as of June 30th this year, the main retail enterprises closed 158 stores in China, far exceeding the number of 35 stores closed last year.

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In the first half of the year, the shop closing trend continued to spread. In July, the store in Beijing's East Fourth Ring shop was officially closed. The Zhanjiang store of Wangfujing department store announced that it was closed down. At the end of August, the Beijing court store in Beijing, P, will be closed.

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< p > the impact of WAL-MART, Parkson, a href= "http:// m.pmae.cn/news/index_c.asp", "Shang Tai" /a "and other foreign retail enterprises is more obvious.

It is reported that the number of foreign-owned supermarket shopping outlets is 118, accounting for 75% of the total number of stores.

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< p > experts pointed out that at present, the development of small and micro enterprises is still facing difficulties, the first to bear the brunt is the rising cost pressure.

The surveyed units almost agreed that the rising cost is the main problem in the current operation.

Store rents, labor wages and raw materials are the main components of the cost increase.

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< p > fierce competition is also a big problem for small and micro enterprises to cope with.

Among the surveyed units, a large number of owners indicated that the fierce competition was the main problem in their operation.

Due to the relatively large entry threshold and the low number of enterprises and other industries, a large number of homogeneous merchants have sprung up like mushrooms, bringing intense competition pressure to small and micro enterprises.

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