2013/11/3 Matthijs Melissen <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> > Do these kind of shops also exist in other countries, and how are they > referred to? Which of the products that I listed do they sell? >
There is surely some overlap between countries, but there are also country specific specialties. A shop which sells this kind of stuff in Germany could also be a petrol station. In Italy a shop=tobacco might also sell salt (traditionally salt was a state monopoly), but won't sell books generally. Bus tickets will mostly be sold, concert tickets I'm not sure, but they will also do some kind of banking operations (you can pay e.g. your rent or your electricity bill there). As for postal stamps I wouldn't count on them, they might have some of the most used fractions, but very often they'd say they've run out. They also won't sell magazines or newspapers by default, but there are some (combined shops) that do. Often they are inside a bar and will therefor sell coffee, liquors, sandwiches, etc. Besides from these tobacco - bars a tobacco shop won't offer drinks. Lotto is a different issue, in Germany the common couple is a newspaper agent offering wasting your money on lottery. Given that already inside a certain country there are huge differences between "these kind of shops". I'd think it is almost impossible to do it on an international level. E.g. some shop=tobacco are specialized in tobacco and offer a huge selection of cigars, pipes and pipe tobacco, cigarette rolling tobacco etc., while others not even offer rolling tobacco but only a small selection of cigarettes and maybe one or two common cigar types. I won't deduct from the shop type what exactly is the offering, either we had to make specific subtypes (e.g. tobacco bar, tobacco + newspapers, even tobacco and pastry/bread) or express this with additional attributes in the form of sell:tobacco=yes, sell:icecream=yes, lotto=yes (or "sells" for grammatical reasons, but the sell:* form seems more common currently). In conclusion to your original question I'd say that this is not one kind of shop, but there are different kind of shops in different countries, offering overlapping goods and services. cheers, Martin
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