[Tagging] shop=discount
Mateusz Konieczny
matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Mon Jun 25 15:36:35 UTC 2018
25. Jun 2018 17:32 by list at tobias-wrede.de <mailto:list at tobias-wrede.de>:
> > Am 25.06.2018 um 17:12 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny:
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>> 24. Jun 2018 22:17 by >> dieterdreist at gmail.com <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>>> :
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>>> sent from a phone
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>>>> On 24. Jun 2018, at 22:00, Mateusz Konieczny <>>>> matkoniecz at tutanota.com <mailto:matkoniecz at tutanota.com>>>>> > wrote:
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>>>> It sounds like any type of shop may have discount shop variation.
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>>> usually the term discount shop refers to shops selling food “from the pallet”, i.e. a smaller selection and less laborious presentation, tending to bigger packages, for a cheaper price.
>>> Sometimes also with supposed inferior quality. Nowadays also typically sell occasionally selected non-food stuff according to the season (like tools, clothing, toys, even electronics like 1 laptop or 1 phone), but usually only from 2-3 boxes, it does not take significant space.
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>> So it is shop=convenience that is selling “from the pallet” and is likely to be a cheaper?
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> Reading shop=discount first the kind of shop sprang to my mind that sell all kinds of stuff in the range of 1-5€. Here they often have names like 1€ Store, 99c Store etc.
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> Looking at usages on Overpass Turbo indeed many of the occurrences are that kind of stores (shop=variety?). But there are also a lot of supermarkets (Aldi etc) with this tag, as well as drug stores and hardware stores it seems (I had to guess from the name where I did not recognize it).
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> To me its obvious that the tag in its current usage is totally unusable as it does not denote at all what I can expect to buy in the store. Rather there could be a tag as discount=yes showing it's some kind of discount store along the special shop=* tag.
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> So I'm perfectly fine with discouraging the use on the wiki page but I would not simply call it a duplicate of shop=variety but refer to likely tags as shop=supermarket/convenience/variety.
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I attemped to improve description again - see
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Ashop%3Ddiscount&type=revision&diff=1622243&oldid=1622125 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Ashop%3Ddiscount&type=revision&diff=1622243&oldid=1622125>
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