[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Reusable packaging

[Paul Allen]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 11:04, Antoine Jaury via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> marc marc wrote:
>
> "well in this case, this shop isn't a bulk_purchase=yes shop
> bulk_purchase=* in osm mean that you can BUY item in bulk
> not that the shop has a stock of product that he packs for you on site.
> bulk_purchase informs how the customer can have the product and not in
> what form the stock in the shop is kept"
>
> I disagree on that definition. For me bulk purchase means that you can buy
>
>
> the exact quantity you want and is not related to the packaging even if in
>
>  most of the cases you have the opportunity to re-use a paper bag you already used.
>
>
In British English (which OSM generally uses) "bulk" means "being large in
size, mass or
volume (of goods, etc.)."  See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bulk

The same applies to "bulk purchasing" which means "the purchase of much
larger quantities
than the usual, for a unit price <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_price>
that is lower than the usual."  See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_purchasing

 Also, the wiki page of the tag is not clear at all about that and we can
>
>  see multiple topics where people don't have the same definition:
>
>
Then the wiki page should be fixed and, in my opinion, fixed to reflect
British English usage.

I agree that we need a tag to indicate what you think of as bulk
purchasing, that is where
you bring your own container.  I'm not sure if there's a generally-accepted
term for this
in British English yet.  I've seen "zero waste" (misleading, because it's
not zero) and
"unpackaged" (also misleading as it is in a package, just not a package
that you can
take away) as well as "bring your own container."  There are also "plastic
free"
shops, but that doesn't necessarily mean the same thing, although there is
quite
a lot of overlap.

-- 
Paul
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