shop=supermarket and membership=yes is more accurate than shop=wholesale for a business like Costco and Sams. Only true wholesalers should be tagged as such.
+1 Agree. Costco is not a wholesale shop because they sell to any consumer who is willing to buy a membership. And they sell many items in quantities of one. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:40 AM, johnw <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > A lot of Costco's customers are small businesses who buy wholesale > > > 25 years ago this was their business model. (Price club). > > 15 years ago this was still true. > > This is not true any more. > > They still have business accounts (my friend has one), but I’ll bet you % > of customers and % items bought and % of money spent at costco goes *at > least* 80-20 end-consumers vs resellers. My guess is it is probably closer > to 90-10. > > This seems to be true in the US and Japan. the amount of moms with kids > and elderly people wandering around shopping for ice cream and batteries > are not resellers. Anyone buying tires, glasses, clothes, books, movies, > computer electronics, toothbrushes, or frozen food is also not a reseller > (no reseller selling TVs is buying a single TV every few months). The > parking lot is completely full of families. Besides certain bulk food > supply aimed at restaurants (60 eggs) or is easily resellable in small > amounts (canned drinks), all the stocked items are now completely targeted > at consumers. Anything with a Kirkland logo is meant for end-consumers, > otherwise there was no reason to create the KS line of products. > > All of their secondary services - glasses, food court, pharmacy, tire > center, photo Prints, and other stuff through third parties (garage doors, > cars, tax prep, etc) is all for consumers as well - so that should *really* > tell you who is walking through costco’s doors. > > > Javbw > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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