小店怎么活下来短文★★★★★
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The small shops on our street are closing one by one, and people say it is because of the big online stores.
我们街上那些小店一家接一家关门，人们都说是被网上大商店打死的。
That is part of it, but I worked in a clothes shop for a year, and I saw what really hurt us.
那是一部分原因，可我自己在服装店干过一年，我知道真正伤我们的是什么。
We could not pay for the corner of the street. The rent went up by a third in two years, and the man next to us sold his shop and left.
我们付不起街角那个铺面。两年里房租涨了三成，隔壁那位老板把店卖了走了。
The people who came to us were not looking for the best price. They were looking for a size that no picture on a screen can promise.
来我们店里的人不是在找最便宜的价格。他们在找的是屏幕上一张图片没法保证的尺码。
So we kept the small sizes and the very large ones, and we learned the names of the women who came every Thursday.
所以我们留着最小的和最大的号，还认识了每个周四都来的那几位太太的名字。
A shop on a street is not only a place to buy things. It is one of the few places where a person is known without being watched.
街上的一家店不只是个买东西的地方。它是少数几个你能被人认得、又不被人盯着的地方。