on floating barges or boats. That situation has changed greatly over the past ten years.
There has been a move away from small, locally owned retailers to large international retailers. Wal-Mart (from the United States), Carrefour (from France) and Britain's own Tesco all opened their variety stores in Asia during the 1990s and, despite the fact that Asians were not accustomed to this type of retailing, these companies did well ("A Hyper Market," 2001, p. 6).
Some of the success of the hyper markets came from the fact that companies were able to take advantage of the Asian financial collapse tha
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