但官方统计通常只考虑大零售商的销售额而排除数十万小商店和小买卖那不断下滑的销售额，所以销售的实际情况远不如表面显示的好。
But, because the official statistics capture mostly sales by larger retailers and exclude the fall in sales by hundreds of thousands of smaller stores and businesses that have failed, consumption looks better than it really is.