A lot of pharmacies in the USA serve as general merchandise stores, as well
as selling prescription and nonprescription medicines, bandages, etc. The
Walgreens Drugstore near my home sells food, cosmetics, toys, cell phone
accessories, household tools, and many other items.
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On October 31, 2015 8:34:44 AM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> writes:
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Am 31.10.2015 um 00:22 schrieb Philip Barnes <[email protected]>:
Pharmacists don't technically sell medicines they dispense it and
sometimes collect a flat rate fee, if you are of working age and live
in England.
It's quite different in the US. Besides paying for prescription
medication (often with insurance, but still) a place called a pharmacy
will have a variety of non-prescription medication and various
associated stuff (bandages).
So shop makes more sense than office, and here office makes no to little
sense at all.
I realize there's shop=chemist, but that seem to be a uk/europe vs US thing.
However, the real issue is that the tags in use should be rendered. If
a tag is not used much and it's dropped, that's fine, but using the
stylesheet to force retagging of things in wide use would be
inappropriate. I haven't seen the underlying data on tag frequency
brought into the debate; arguably that should be the core of the
discussion.
THEY do sell some stuff as well, but so do the library and post office.
there is surely a huge difference in volume between the stuff a
pharmacy sells besides dispensing medicine and the stuff a library or
a post office sell, making it more of an edge case, at least around
here (and that's still Europe). Anyway, I don't oppose
amenity=pharmacy as the preferred tag.
In the US, a pharmacy basically sells things, including some things that
require a special license to sell. library and post office do sell
some things, but are not primarily shops in that sense.
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