> On Apr 25, 2017, at 8:46 PM, Tobias Wrede <l...@tobias-wrede.de> wrote:
>
> Am 25.04.2017 um 11:21 schrieb John Willis:
>> If I search for a supermarket and you send me to a 7-11, you failed.
>
> I partly agree but when I tag Walmart or Trader Joe's as a supermarket's
> brand that carries a clear expectation towards the assortment of the store.
I didn’t send it to the mailing list by accident: here is the message he is
quoting from in it’s entirety
Javbw
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> On Apr 25, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Tobias Wrede <l...@tobias-wrede.de
> <mailto:l...@tobias-wrede.de>> wrote:
>
> a supermarket's brand that carries a clear expectation towards the assortment
> of the store.
This is true for all businesses in all counties. The regional assumption of
what goods/services are available varies not only by "brand", but what each
type of shop offers varies by culture - similar to what is available at a "drug
store" and a "pharmacy". A drug store in the US often has a prescription
pharmacy in the back.
What is considered a "prescription" and what is OTC is similar to the regional
variation with of what is offered at a supermarket or a post office, but at
least there is a clear separation between OTC and prescription drugs in most
countries.
A Supermarket or department store o might also have most of what a drug store
offers and a pharmacy (like target did). But in other cultures, for cultural or
legal reasons, they might be separated, like here in Japan. So there is a need
for both a "pharmacy" (chemist?) and a "drug store".
Whereas in the US, we would need a way to tag the prescription pharmacy as an
amenity offered by a drug store or a department store.
I cannot think of a "pharmacy" shop that only sells perception medication and
nothing else in the US - they are are (seemingly) always part of a larger drug
store that sells chocolate and vitamins and OTC drugs and other not-drug stuff
the Prescription drugs are just another thing they offer. But in Japan, the OTC
stuff is separated from the prescription stuff, and a prescription shop is very
tiny and sells (basically) only perceptions, nothing else _at all_.
Trying to tie them together saying "they both sell medicines" and "we can
separate them by brand" and "we have so many variations we need to tag them in
a different manner" breaks the tagging system for all of them completely, and
does little to address the need for the "amenity" tag needed to add it onto
larger businesses that offer an entire business' service as a department in
their store - like a garden center at DIY shop, a custom-order cake shop inside
a supermarket, or package drop-off&pickup for a courier at a convenience store.
Javbw.
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