连锁经营是现代“流通革命”的一大标志,把现代化工业大生产原理应用于零售商业,实现商业活动的标准化、专业化、统一化、单纯化,从而达到提高规模效益的目的。连锁经营在促进商品流通,加快农业产业化进程,满足人们消费需求等方面发挥着重要的作用。其应用在发达国家已经取得普 Chain management is a symbol of modern “circulation revolution”. It applies the principle of modern large-scale industrial production to retail commerce and standardizes, specializes, unifies and simplifies commercial activities so as to achieve the goal of improving economies of scale. Chain management plays an important role in promoting the circulation of commodities, accelerating the process of agricultural industrialization and meeting people’s consumption needs. Its application has been made in developed countries