[Tagging] discrepancy in shop definition and "wholesale" value

[Johnparis]

Regarding Althio's comment:

This is exactly the sort of confusion caused by using the word "wholesale"
in shop=wholesale.

These are not wholesalers. They are retailers who use the word "wholesale"
as a marketing tool. (Even if the parent company has wholesale activities,
these particular premises sell at retail.)

Typically they will, for example, sell detergent in boxes of 5 kg instead
of 1 kg. Or a liter of ketchup. Hence the (USA) term "big box". So they are
"wholesale-sized" but not wholesale in the sense of their sales mechanism.
(The wholesale=* tag is for wholesalers.)

I would not change the definition of shop to avoid retail. "shop=wholesale"
describes a particular kind of retailer. (We might want to add that last
sentence to the wiki.)

John



On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:34 AM, althio <althio.forum at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I am happy with shop=wholesale and would prefer to change slightly the
> definitions and descriptions ["A place selling products or services", no
> mention of retail] on pages
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shops
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shop
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