连锁商业是西方经济发达国家在零售商业发展历程中的第三次革命。连锁商店是英文Ｃｈａｉｎ-ｓｔｏｒｅ的直译,是指在核心店的领导下,由分散的、经营同类商品或服务的零售企业,通过规范化经营,实现规模效益的经济联合体组织形式。近代连锁商店最早发展是在美国,但直到本世纪２ Chain business is the third revolution in the development of retail business in the western economically developed countries. The chain stores are English-language Chain-store literal translations, which refer to the form of economic consortium organized by a decentralized retail enterprise that manages similar goods or services under the leadership of a core store through standardized management. The earliest development of modern chain stores was in the United States, but until this century 2