A simple question, but probably a complex answer. Growing up a department store was divided up into a series of departments, each operated almost as separate shops with their own staff, own till and you paid for what you bought before you moved on to the next department.
The obvious example is Harrods, but Grace Brothers (1) was a familiar example, along with Rackhams, Debenhams. The key feature in my mind is that each department is that you paid in each shop, you couldn't buy a pair of shoes and pay for them in the record department. The big thing that kept me out of such places was the perfume department which always seemed to be just inside the main door to overpower and drive me back out. In OSM we are using department store to describe most commonly for example M & S. Whilst it does have departments, you take things to a single till. Food is still sort of separate, but as far as I am aware you can pay for your socks along with your groceries. ASDA Home may fit this, but again you pay at a single till area. Was taken to TK Maxx today, had never been in before and had always assumed it was a clothes shop and had mapped it as such. It sells much more than clothes, actually felt like BHS used to. But again you take things to a single till. On checking, iD suggests Department Store. What do others think? Am I stuck in the 70s? Phil (trigpoint) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTCUuTGNEnI May not be familiar to all as it doesn't get the repeats that other series of the era do (Dad's Army, On The Buses) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
