But they continue to come. Chung Shing Textile recently bought the Sunrise Department Store for a surprisingly cool NT $ 600 million. San Yang--the auto company-picked up the Lai Lai's Taipei and Taicheng stores for a staggering NT $ 1.28 billion. President Foods 'joint venture with a French partner has already been approved by the Investment Commission of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
最近幾年的例子就有：中興紡織以六億元高價頂下興來百貨；專營機、汽車業的三陽工業以十二億八千萬元，取得台北、台中來來經營權；東光鋼鐵與春暉建設合資成立東光百貨；鴻源集團租下環亞百貨，並且易名為鴻源百貨；以至於東帝士集團呼之欲出的東雲百貨；都是局外人插身百貨業的例證。