When the American retailer Target opened its first store in Canada in March 2013, its management assumed that the recipe of its success in the United States could be replicated north of the border. Instead, just 22 months later, the company announced that it would close all of its 133 Canadian stores and lay off 17,000 people.
当美国零售商塔吉特公司（Target）于2013年3月开出第一家加拿大门店时，其管理层认为在美国成功的秘诀也可以在美国的北方邻国奏效。但是，只过了22个月，塔吉特公司就宣布将关闭所有133家加拿大门店，裁员17,000人。事实证明，塔吉特公司的美国经验绝非其在加拿大的合理期望值。