连锁店是一种舶来品,从130年前世界上第一家连锁店——美国大西洋及太平洋茶叶公司诞生到本世纪20年代,连锁店迅猛发展起来。二次大战后,西方众多国家把连锁经营视作零售商业的最佳选择,在欧、美、日等经济发达国家商业领域占据了主导地位。80年代中期,随着外资餐饮企业的进入,现代连锁经营方式也传入我国。进入90年代,沿海发达地区和一些大中城市的部分国有商业企业也开始探索连锁经营这一新型的现代经营方式,其中的部分 Chain stores are a kind of exotic goods. Since the birth of the world’s first chain store 130 years ago, the American Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, and the twentieth century, chain stores have rapidly developed. After the Second World War, many western countries saw chain operations as the best choice for retail commerce, and they dominated the economic fields of developed countries such as Europe, the United States, and Japan. In the mid-1980s, with the entry of foreign catering companies, modern chain management methods were introduced into China. In the 1990s, some state-owned commercial enterprises in coastal developed areas and some large and medium-sized cities also began to explore chain management as a new type of modern business operation.