[Tagging] Proposed tag shop=wholesale

[ael]

On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:49:31AM +1000, Warin wrote:
> On 9/05/2015 11:10 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> >On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Matthijs Melissen
> ><info at matthijsmelissen.nl <mailto:info at matthijsmelissen.nl>> wrote:
> >
> >    Note that we also have shop=trade. It would be good to make the
> >    difference between both tags clear (of deprecate shop=trade, which I
> >    wouldn't oppose).
> >
> >
> >"trade" is an attribute.
> >
> >Any type of shop (plumbing, electrical, lumber, restaurant supplies) could
> >be trade focused.
> >Such shops do not cater to walk in consumer traffic, and may be hostile to
> >customers
> >who come in without trade knowledge.
> >
> 
> Wholesale implies a large quantity of goods, they sell in quantity (the
> quantity may be over some time, say a year).
> 
> A 'Trade' shop implies specialist goods and specialist knowledge, not things
> that are present in supermarkets.
> An Electronics trade shop will know what a 12 puff capacitor is and have
> several types available, high Q please.
> A Plumbers trade shop will have several types of stop cocks available...
> etc.
> 
> A trade shop may accept walk in customers .. but give them retail prices
> where as a trade person would get trade price.
> Some trades are protected by law and a trade shop may refuse sales based on
> that .. usually safety related.

Yes. That was the sort of thing I meant when I invented shop=trade...

ael