[Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - (office=courier)"

[muzirian]

Is it okay to push this to voting again?

Regards


On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:08 PM, John Willis <johnw at mac.com> wrote:

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> On Apr 25, 2017, at 8:46 PM, Tobias Wrede <list at tobias-wrede.de> wrote:
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> Am 25.04.2017 um 11:21 schrieb John Willis:
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> If I search for a supermarket and you send me to a 7-11, you failed.
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> 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.
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> I didn’t send it to the mailing list by accident: here is the message he
> is quoting from in it’s entirety
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> Javbw
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> ~~~~~
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> On Apr 25, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Tobias Wrede <list at tobias-wrede.de> wrote:
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> a supermarket's brand that carries a clear expectation towards the
> assortment of the store.
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> 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.
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> 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".
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> 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.
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> 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_.
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> 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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