Hmm, to me there are three levels.
Crazy Clarks is bargain/discount
Target, KMart are downmarket
DJ's etc are upmarket
How should we tag a factory outlet type store that sell's upmarket
stuff at lower prices? I can easily find stores that sell every
product at a very reduced price, but still
On 7 May 2010 18:15, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm, to me there are three levels.
Isn't the english language wonderful, you ask people from different
natively speaking english backgrounds what something means and you end
up with almost a different answer each time, although I'm
2010/5/6 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com:
On 6 May 2010 19:27, Richard Mann
richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote:
In the UK, they'd almost certainly be tagged as supermarkets, since
our stores tend to have one product area dominant (eg groceries).
Department stores are large
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2010/5/6 John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com:
From my experience (in the USA), most WalMarts and KMarts only allocate a
small percentage of their floor space to groceries. The so-called super
WalMarts have a full range of groceries; even so, the grocery section takes
up only 20 percent or
On 5/6/10 8:47 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2010/5/6 John F. Eldredgej...@jfeldredge.com:
From my experience (in the USA), most WalMarts and KMarts only allocate a
small percentage of their floor space to groceries. The so-called super
WalMarts have a full range of groceries; even
2010/5/6 Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net:
most of these stores devote no more than 5 or 10% of their floorspace to
food, and are otherwise inexpensive department stores, and i'm certainly
having trouble seeing how 10% of their stock overrides the other 90% when
it comes to tagging.
I
On 5/6/10 9:15 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
This leads to a new proposal: discount=yes to discriminate
discounters. Could be used in addition for supermarkets, department
stores and maybe others.
usable with any shop= where appropriate? i can see that.
richard
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2010/5/6 John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com:
From my experience (in the USA), most WalMarts and KMarts only allocate a
small
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:15 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote:
I see. The type of discout stores we have here (there should be some
wallmart as well, but I personally never encountered one) usually are
mainly for food and have just occasionally some non-food articles
(maybe
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Richard Welty wrote:
On 5/6/10 9:15 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
This leads to a new proposal: discount=yes to discriminate
discounters. Could be used in addition for supermarkets, department
stores and maybe others.
usable with any shop= where appropriate? i can
On 5/6/10 4:52 PM, Liz wrote:
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Richard Welty wrote:
On 5/6/10 9:15 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
This leads to a new proposal: discount=yes to discriminate
discounters. Could be used in addition for supermarkets, department
stores and maybe others.
On 7 May 2010 07:03, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
well, yes, but within the US at least, i think there's broad agreement
that one tier of department
store (walmart, kmart, target) is discount with respect to another
(macys, pennys, nordstrom,
etc.)
The same thing is true of
On Fri, 7 May 2010, John Smith wrote:
On 7 May 2010 07:03, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
well, yes, but within the US at least, i think there's broad agreement
that one tier of department
store (walmart, kmart, target) is discount with respect to another
(macys, pennys,
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:13 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
well, yes, but within the US at least, i think there's broad agreement
that one tier of department
store (walmart, kmart, target) is discount with respect to another
(macys, pennys, nordstrom, etc.)
The same thing
On 5/6/10 8:30 PM, Roy Wallace wrote:
I disagree that there's broad agreement here on what stores are
discount stores.
I've never heard anyone in Australia refer to Kmart or Target as a
discount store. I have heard this word used for, say, Crazy Clarks
or Dollars and Sense. But I would have
On 7 May 2010 10:30, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
I've never heard anyone in Australia refer to Kmart or Target as a
discount store. I have heard this word used for, say, Crazy Clarks
or Dollars and Sense. But I would have trouble objectively defining
what it is, exactly, that
On 6 May 2010 11:24, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
they really don't quite seem to go as department_store, but also seem large
for the value general. what are people typically using?
shop=department_store seems to fit to me:
A single large store - often multiple storeys high -
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
by discount store, i mean the largish stores like WalMart, Target, K
Mart, etc.
they really don't quite seem to go as department_store, but also seem large
for the value general. what are people typically using?
I
On 6 May 2010 11:59, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote:
Though, many Targets and Super Walmarts have large grocery sections, so they
could also get shop=supermarket, and there might be a McDonalds, Pizza Hut
or Taco Bell Express, and other things. Thus, we have the issue with how to
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