A department store is a place that sells a wide range of products to the consumer. The products sold in a department store including everything, like clothing, cosmetics, furniture, home appliances, food, books, jewelry, and electronics. Managing the department stores is one of the typical big businesses in the world. America and Taiwan, have many ways of operating the department stores in common, including the way to attract customer, a set price, the employees’ rotation. However, the Product display, the operating time, and the serving style of the workers, are very different from each other.
Both American and Taiwanese love to shop. The department stores in both countries are always crowded. The appearance of a department store is very important in Taiwan, just as America. They are not only emphasize on the exterior of the building, but also changed the decoration of windows display every month. They also made some advertisement post on the subway, newspaper, and media to attract people.
The price of each product in a department stores in the United States, just like Taiwan, is already set. People can not bargain about the price in the department stores. Only if there is a special event, like Christmas, an anniversary, New Years, or the customers have the specific credit card which the department store provides they can have some discounts.
The employees rotation in America is similar to Taiwan. That is when people go shopping, they usually can’t see the same employees serving people, because the stores change the employees all the time. In Taiwan, the same cosmetic shops are located in different department stores, and the companies make the employees rotate.
In addition to the similarities, there are also some differences in the department stores between America and Taiwan.
First of all, department store in Taiwan, every brand has their own space and product display are always very neat. It makes the commodities