On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > To my mind, =discount & =variety are exactly the same shops. While > =variety has a full article, I'd personally think that they should both be > called =discount. > To my mind they're different. Although I wouldn't have chosen variety as the value, that's what we have for what is often referred to as a dollar store (west Atlantic) or pound shop (east Atlantic). They started off with a single price point for a variety of cheap tat, now they have two or three price points for the cheap tat and may also sell more expensive tat too. But they're not primarily food stores and may not have any food items at all. Trinkets and gizmos, for the most part. See, for example, my local variety shop: http://mikesshop.co.uk/ (the 1990s just called and asked for its web design back). Product range has little overlap with a supermarket or convenience store. Discount stores are, as I understand it (I don't have any remotely near me) more of a cut-down wholesaler but open to the public. Presentation and packaging is that of a wholesaler, and savings come from buying in bulk. Depending on the particular retailer, product range may be primarily foodstuff (overlapping with supermarkets and convenience stores) or might concentrate on things like office supplies. When it's foodstuffs you're not buying a consumer-size box of cornflakes but a very large carton of consumer-size boxes of cornflakes. Of course, there are probably stores that are a blend of the above. I think we need a real-world mailing list so we can vote on how to make the real world conform to our tagging schemes. -- Paul
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