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> On Feb 13, 2016, at 8:09 AM, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So: >> >> Builder supply : focus on materials/piping/whatever their specialty (Tile, >> rock, lumber), excluding the finished goods stores (appliance, etc) >> >> Hardware stores : focus on tools/consumables. >> >> DIY store: focus on both materials & tools (fixtures, appliances as well) >> > Sounds good... I think the scale of the operation might/should come into it > somewhere. A simple hardware store may have one tin of each colour of paint, > but would offer to get you a larger quantity "in a couple of days". A > Builders merchant might have hundreds of tins in stock. focus on “supplies” at a builder supply shop would imply such a stock. Hardware stores are often ordering the paint for you from a B2B vendor and drop-shipping it to you. > >> >> Drawing a couple lines in the sand like these should be pretty easy, >> especially if we remove large B2B only places from retail (because that is >> clearly not retail) and push them over into commercial. This would cover >> supply warehouses and other large scale commercial B2B vendors who do not >> operate retail/public locations. >> >> Thoughts? >> > I agree that "shop" implies retail, so b2b only is not a shop in that sense. > But if the clientele is the only difference, shouldn't we tag them the same > except for that factor (access=public/business or some such)? > to me, a commercial B2B distribution warehouse is commercial (landuse & buildings) - and the 3 mentioned above is retail and uses the shop=* tag. ~~~~~~ Today, I went to my local DIY store. I needed some stuff. https://goo.gl/maps/LVqbhyYdVwT2 <https://goo.gl/maps/LVqbhyYdVwT2> As a guy who went to Home Depot a lot in the US - these “Japanese DIY stores” (they put DIY on the outside of the building) Usually have a lot more… “home goods” like you would find in department store. They have a pet center, a watch counter, pots and pans, bicycles, curtains and bedding. And 4 isles of screws and bolts, farming supplies, and a large amount of power tools. It’s like Home Depot and a Target had a kid - Joyful Honda even moreso. (None of them include clothing, though). The more I think about it, we probably need to approach this in two ways: #1 ) as discussed, develop borad categories to classify stores (hardware/ builder supply / DIY) #2 ) come up with descriptions for sections (usually what the isles would be named) for more detailed mapping. I assume for home stores and DIY with might be 100 different categories. The advantage of #1 is people can easily map regional assumptions onto the stores, but they broadly match each other. (both are a little different). the advantage of #2 is people who care or the shop owners can easily add what they do and do not carry via shop:sells:dimentional_framing_lumber=yes or shop:sells:bathroom_fixtures=no, and regional search terms can be mapped via the shop:ja:sells:自転車=yes (bicycles) can be added if needed. This will allow for more fine grained searches (and addition of regional, undefined things, like a kimono shop). a search for bicycle shop would return stand-alone bicycle shops AND the home store where most people actually buy a bike. We will eventually have to make a list like this for most categories of things sold (all 3000 of them?), so setting up #1 and preparing for #2 is a good idea. Javbw
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