[Tagging] Pre-RFC: shop=stationery, shop=office_supplies

[Toby Murray]

I know I have used office_supply for Staples. When I looked it up in the
wiki, the stationery page did not include the examples of the office
superstores and my impression was that it was intended for smaller shops,
including the Hallmark shops that John mentions. I considered Staples to be
different enough to deserve a different tag. I am not convinced that I am
right... just stating at how I arrived at my tagging decision.

Toby

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:37 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>
wrote:

> I haven't noticed one for several years, but there used to be stores that
> specialized in selling greeting cards and small ornamental gifts. Hallmark
> greeting cards had a retail chain.
>
>
>
> On October 20, 2014 7:34:19 PM CDT, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> When I think of a stationery shop, I think of something like a FedEx
>> Office minus the copiers and shipping.  When I think of an office supply
>> store, I think of something like Office Depot, Office Max or Staples, which
>> also sell office furniture, computers, adding machines, filing cabinets,
>> etc.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Matthijs Melissen <
>> info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> We have currently two tags with a closely related, if not identical,
>>> meaning: shop=stationery (8038 instances) and shop=office_supplies
>>> (177 instances).
>>>
>>> Is there a difference between these two tags, or should we deprecate
>>> shop=office_supplies in favour of shop=stationery?
>>>
>>> For example, Staples, a large multinational stationery/office supplies
>>> shop is tagged 380 times as shop=stationery and 48 times as
>>> shop=office_supplies.
>>>
>>> -- Matthijs
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