"Pile it high and sell it cheap" nghĩa là gì?

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"Pile it/them high and sell it/them cheap" = xếp thành chồng cao và bán rẻ -> cụm từ này nghĩa là bán sản phẩm nào đó số lượng lớn với giá rẻ.

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He began stacking (xếp chồng) his products, rather than selling them in bundles – the famous ‘pile it high and sell it cheap’ philosophy (triết lý) that became the title of his 1972 biography (hồi ký).

The Tesco founder, Jack Cohen, was an enterprising market trader who brought modern supermarket retailing to postwar Britain. Nearly a century later, Cohen, nicknamed “Slasher Jack” because he liked to “pile it high and sell it cheap”, is making a high street comeback.

From modest beginnings in Mary Street with a “pile them high and sell them cheap” formula, Ryan masterminded the phenomenal (kỳ lạ, phi thường) growth of the cut-price fashion chain into a major international player which now has 372 stores in 12 countries and some 80,000 employees.

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