[Talk-GB] The Range - looking for tagging consensus

[SK53]

Thanks for doing this: I had wondered who the fairy was!

As is often the case it might be easier to say which tags look out of place.

   - Department store should be reserved for what are classically called
   department stores and larger shops of the M&S type, not for a shop with a
   number of different departments (think Woolies before it closed and Wilkos
   now). These latter I would characterise as variety stores (because that's
   how Woolies was described in the trade press). Clothes have always been a
   major category for department stores & the absence of a broad clothing
   offering is, I think, a straight disqualification. (Aside: this is a good
   example of where some over-generalisation of a tag meaning actually
   devalues the overall value of the tag)


   - DIY looks wrong too. Some of the items in their DIY section just look
   like house wares to me (fans, dehumidifier etc), and many ranges are
   smaller than one would find in a small neighbourhood hardware shop.


   - Furniture Garden Centre & Interior Decoration, whilst all categories
   stocked at The Range are too restrictive in meaning.

So I'd favour the remaining candidates & I think housewares or homewares is
probably a better fit.

Jerry

On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 10:50, Silent Spike <silentspike100 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This brand was brought up in the name suggestion index thread as one that
> doesn't currently have an entry due to it being tricky to determine the
> best tagging.
>
> I'm a UK based maintainer of the project and would like to get it added,
> but am not comfortable making a tagging judgement call alone without
> consulting the UK community.
>
> It looks like currently there are:
>
>    - 21 shop=department_store
>    - 18 shop=doityourself
>    - 15 shop=variety_store
>    - 14 shop=houseware
>    - 6 shop=furniture
>    - 5 shop=interior_decoration
>    - 3 shop=garden_centre
>
>
> Probably a few others too. Personally I'd rule out `variety_store` as per
> the wiki "a variety store or price-point retailer is a retail shop that
> sells inexpensive items" (think Poundland).
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