What does a retail department store mean?

Department stores refer to various commodities. Daily necessities, hardware, non-staple food, department stores, household appliances, etc.

1, daily necessities

Daily necessities, also known as daily necessities, are ordinary people's daily necessities, namely household goods, household food, household appliances and household appliances.

According to the frequency or scope of use, articles are divided into: daily necessities, or daily necessities and luxury goods.

According to the use, it is divided into: toiletries, household articles, cooking articles (including kitchen and bathroom articles), decorative articles, cosmetic articles and bedding.

2. Hardware

Traditional hardware products, also called "hardware". Refers to gold, silver, copper, iron and tin. After manual processing, it can be made into works of art or metal utensils such as knives and swords. Hardware in modern society is more extensive, such as hardware tools, hardware accessories, daily hardware, building hardware, security supplies and so on.

3. Non-staple food

Non-staple food is generally processed food, including sugar, candy, canned food, tea, condiments, dairy products, honey products, bean products, beverages, biscuits, cakes, snacks, cigarettes, wine, fruits and so on. In the era of planned economy in China, staple food and non-staple food were strictly managed separately.

Extended data

The transformation and upgrading of enterprises in China faces great pressure, but there are also great opportunities and space. The domestic consumer market is in the period of accelerated expansion, and the huge consumption potential hidden in the people will be transformed into a strong driving force for economic growth. The acceleration of urbanization will further create new investment demand and consumption demand. In addition, the improvement of scientific and technological innovation ability and human capital investment will also inject new impetus into economic growth. At this moment, it is timely to promote the innovation and upgrading of enterprise technology and management.

At present, all industries, provinces and cities are striving to formulate transformation and upgrading strategies, and the retail department store industry should also seize the current favorable opportunity to cultivate and improve the enterprise innovation mechanism. At the same time, increase R&D investment and talent pool, enhance innovation ability, strive to break through the key links that restrict the promotion of industrial value chain, accelerate the development of productive services such as R&D, design, standards, logistics and marketing, and enhance production services and service knowledge. At the same time, through "creative destruction", a new technology and production system will be established to offset and hedge the pressure brought by rising costs with the improvement of production efficiency.