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For shoppers this couldn' t have come at a more welcome time. 70 of toy sales are made in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Children obviously want everything and it' s very disappointing if they don' t get everything, and if the prices are fixed, the parents can' t afford it. I think the price of toys is quite exorbitant. Obviously around Christmas time they always go up, but for parents like us, with our young children, we' d like them to go down, wouldn' t we? For the makers of Monopoly, Twister, Action Man, a record fine of almost 5 million. Hasbro broke competition law when it entered into a pricefixing agreement with its distributiors. It prevented shops selling products below the manufacturer' s recommended price. This supermarket chain wanted to sell Hasbro toys but at less than the Hasbro price, but in order to do that, until recently it had to go to unauthorised suppliers. It' s been a constant battle over the years with all brands within the toy industry to offer our customers the best value that we possibly can, and Hasbro is one of those brands. Well in theory, bigbrand toy prices should come down across the board. Take this Action Man toy, for example. Its price has already been cut by almost 20 since the inquiry, so competition this Christmas should be even keener. Though an industry expert claims toys are competitively priced, and that it' s unfair to single out such a soft target. The toy industry doesn' t really have a big problem with pricefixing. Toys are cheaper nowadays in real terms than they were perhaps ten years ago. Hasbro' s planning to appeal against what it calls the " disproportionate fine", while consumers can hope for a further boost in competition in the almost 2 billion UK toy market. Nicola Carslaw, BBC News. |
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duì gù kè lái shuō, zhè jiàn shì fā shēng dí zhēn shì shí hòu. lín jìn shèng dàn jié qián de jǐ zhōu jiāng huì xiāo shòu 70 de wán jù. xiǎn rán, hái zi shén me dōu xiǎng yào, rú guǒ dé bú dào huì fēi cháng shī wàng, rán ér rú guǒ jià gé dìng sǐ de huà, fù mǔ jiù huì mǎi bu qǐ. qí shí, wǒ rèn wéi wán jù jià gé yǒu diǎn guò gāo le. ó, dāng rán shèng dàn jié zuǒ yòu jià gé zǒng huì shàng zhǎng, dàn xiàng wǒ men zhè yàng yǒu hái zi de fù mǔ zǒng xī wàng jià gé xià diē, bú shì ma? duì yú dà fù wēng niǔ niǔ lè xíng dòng wán ǒu de zhì zào shāng lái shuō, fá jīn chuàng xià le jì lù, jī hū dá dào 5 bǎi wàn yīng bàng. rú guǒ hé fēn xiāo shāng dá chéng jià gé lǒng duàn de xié yì," hái zhī bǎo" jiù wéi fǎn le jìng zhēng fǎ. xié yì zǔ zhǐ shāng diàn yǐ dī yú chǎng jiā tuī jiàn de jià gé xiāo shòu chǎn pǐn. zhè jiā chāo shì lián suǒ diàn xiǎng mài" hái zhī bǎo" wán jù, dàn xiǎng dī yú" hái zhī bǎo" dìng jià, wèi le zuò dào zhè yì diǎn, dào mù qián wéi zhǐ, tā zhǐ néng xún qiú wèi jīng shòu quán de gōng yìng shāng. duō nián lái, wán jù yè gè pǐn pái shāng zhàn bù duàn, lì zhēng gěi chū wǒ men kě néng tí gōng de zuì chāo zhí de jià gé." hái zhī bǎo" jiù shì qí zhōng de yí gè pǐn pái. ó, lǐ lùn shàng, dà pǐn pái wán jù de jià gé yīng quán miàn xià diào. jǔ xíng dòng wán ǒu wán jù wèi lì, tā de jià gé zì diào chá yǐ lái yǐ jīng jiàng jià kuài 20, suǒ yǐ jīn nián shèng dàn jié de jìng zhēng yīng gèng wéi jī liè. jǐn guǎn yè nèi zhuān jiā shēng chēng wán jù yìng shì jìng zhēng xìng dìng jià, dàn dān dān xuǎn chū zhè yí kuài shì chǎng shì bù gōng píng de. wán jù yè zài jià gé lǒng duàn fāng miàn zhēn de bù cún zài dà wèn tí. shí jì shang xiàn zài wán jù bǐ shí nián qián yào pián yí duō le. " hái zhī bǎo" jì huà tí qǐ shàng sù, fǎn duì suǒ wèi de" bù jūn héng fá kuǎn", ér xiāo fèi zhě men kě yǐ qī wàng zhè diǎn jìn yī bù tuī jìn jìn 20 yì de yīng guó wán jù shì chǎng nèi de jìng zhēng. yīng guó guǎng bō gōng sī Nicola Carslaw de bào dào. |