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阿德莱得,一个我以前并不知晓的澳洲城市;零售业,一个似乎离信息技术有些遥远的领域。当我收到由第八届亚太区零售商大会暨展览(ARCE)组委会以及IBM公司共同寄来的邀请时,不免有些疑惑。凭心而论,在我的印象中,虽然零售业是一个自己须臾不可或缺、无处不在的庞大行业,可它与IT的关系,充其量不过是大商场里的一些条码阅读器、POS终端而已。古老的行业,传统的运作,再加上一些专用的IT设备。迢迢万里,作为一个IT媒体的记者,此行会有什么收获呢?
Adelaide, an Australian city that I did not know before; retail, an area that seems to be far away from information technology. When I received an invitation from the 8th Asia Pacific Retailers Conference & Exhibition (ARCE) Organizing Committee and IBM Corporation, I was inevitably puzzled. In fairness, in my mind, although the retail industry is an indispensable and ubiquitous industry, its relationship with IT is, at best, only some bar code readers and POS terminals in big shopping malls. Only. Ancient industries, traditional operations, plus some dedicated IT equipment. Qian Wanli, as an IT media reporter, what will happen to this trip?