In other advanced countries there are distinct market segments--discount, high fashion, designer, and so forth--which have their own stores and do not necessarily compete directly with each other. The local market's abundance of land-lord-tenant agreements has insulated the landlord from much of the ups and downs of the business cycle, but has also hampered the efforts of stores to establish an individual character or name identity.
分眾消費時代已來臨採行專櫃經營，百貨公司只是當房東，按月收租，不用負擔庫存的風險，穩賺不賠，但如此就不容易建立獨特的形象，造成業者都知道的，「台北市各百貨公司服飾有百分之七十以上雷同」的情形。