众所周知，中国有望年内加入世贸组织。对此，我国不少商家尤其是超市企业表现出“有可能遭受外商冲击”的忧虑，同时猜测“海外超市进入中国市场后将如何动作”，并迫切希望能够了解一些海外超市的情况，等等。他山之石，可以攻玉。国外办超市的经验确有可借鉴之处。为此，我们对日本等八个国家的超市情况进行了“扫描”，读者看后也许会开拓自己的视野，并从中总结出一些可借鉴的经验来，琢磨出如何与外商竞争的策略来。 As we all know, China is expected to join the WTO during the year. In response, many of our businesses, especially supermarkets, have expressed their concern that they may be hit by foreign investors. They also speculate on “how overseas supermarkets will move when they enter the Chinese market” and are eager to understand the situation of some overseas supermarkets. . Stones from other hills, can learn. The experience of foreign supermarkets do have some lessons. To this end, we have conducted a “scan” of the supermarkets in eight countries such as Japan, and readers may explore their own horizons and sum up some lessons learned from them to figure out how to compete with foreign investors.