How many different types of shops are there?

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Magnus says 16.

― Tom, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I see his 16 and raise him one.

― Emma, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. shoe shop
2. clothes shop
3. sex shop
4. newsagent
5. record shop
6. supermarket
7. corner shop/general store
8. chemist
9. department store
10. comic shop
11. key cutting shop
12. DIY store
13. garden centre
14. car parts shop
15. book shop
16. underwear shop
17. computer ganes shop
18. toy shop
19. new age shop
20. sea side shop
21. £1 shop
22. print shop
23. 99p shop
24. off licence
25. sports shop
26. furniture shop
27. tattoo parlour
28. second hand shop 29. musical instrument shop
30. nail care shop

― jel, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Four: same as deadly sins (seven if y're being anal). I'm sure you can do the math

― mark s, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

31. Jewellery shop
32. Antique shop

― nathalie, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Nail care shop' and tattoo parlour are not proper shops they are beauty salons.

― Emma, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would also question the need for separate categories for pound shops and 99p shops.

Worst thing I have ever bought from a pound shop: an extremely racist porcelain minstrel caricature. I was showing it to John saying oh god look at this how frightful and I dropped it and its toe broke off and I had to pay for it.

― Tom, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Headington also has 'WOW - Wonders Of Wigs And Weaves' though it's never open. But thats a 33rd type of shop.

― Tom, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Corner shop. 2. Boutique. 3. Supermarket.

― Andrew L, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

shouldnt that be wowaw?

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

33. army supplies shop.

34. tobacconist

35. surfboard shop

― scott, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

36. cop shop

― Trevor, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

37. Knocking shop.

― Tom, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

38. chocolate shop (we have about eight in my street)

― nathalie, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

39. Multi coloured swap shop.

― Emma, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

39. Joke shop

40. Fancy Dress store

41. Flower Shop

42. Hi-fi shop

And how can you mention key cutting shop without mentioning shoe repairs? Everyone knows the two are inseperable.

― Martin, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Betting shop.

Theatre workshop.

― Tim, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pet shop.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mobile phone shop.

― jel, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But what price a BUTCHERS and a BAKERS and a CANDLESTICK MAKERS eh? None have the shop suffix but yet surely that is what they is. Hmmm whot? Mmmm, steak pie.

― Sarah, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cheese shop. 'Cheeses of Nazareth' of which there are two, one in England, one in New York.

― nickie, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think we might have proven Magnus wrong.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Magnus has now hardened his line still further and claims there are only TWO.

― Tom, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if you had listened when i first spoke you would not now be at this pass: magnus is wrong — but only by two

― mark s, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I find it hard to see how any other options could creep into Magnus' Manichaean shop-universe of Specialist Shops and General Shops.

― Tom, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about Closed Shops?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

artist supplies shop. Shops are infinite just like the universe.

― jel, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Catalogue shops...

I'm still wondering what Tim is doing in a theatre workshop.

― Martin, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sweat Shops. Pork Shops. Lamb Shops. I didnt spell sweet wrong in case you're wondering.

― Ronan, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

perhaps he is interpreting his favourite pieces of music using the media of darnce and/or mime that's gotta be Tim's style surely?

― cabbage, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How would one dance to the greatest works of Marti Pellow?

― Martin, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Standing over a toilet and repeatedly contracting your abdominal muscles so you spew forth seems as good a series of dance moves as any if Pellow is involved.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did we touch on the coffee shop, scooter/bike/automobile store, model/hobby store/gameing store, fabric store, and dance supplies store?

― marianna, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Head shop

Wedding suit/bridal shop

Stationary shop

― scott, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would like to proffer merged shops to the Two Great Categories. IE a bookshop (specialist) + coffee shop (so-called specialist despite their coffee minging) = merged shop which would be two specialities joining together to create a united yet somehow seperate team.

I would like some coffee now. In fact, lots of it.

― Sarah, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the machine is right beside my desk. Do I want some, maybe, I can get it ANY TIME so I don't need to decide right now. When I say machine I mean press one button and hold cup. And its free.

― Ronan, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

24 hour wicker store.

― emil.y, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is a coffee shop in Borders, does that count?

― jel, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What we have learnt: there are all kinds of shops.

― DavidM, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mopatop's Shop.

― DG, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chop shops!

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well the jerk store called, and they're outta YOU.

― ethan, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten years pass...

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6158381838_5129589c67_b.jpg

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Monday, 19 September 2011 13:34 (fourteen years ago)

I see your Gynaecologist shop and raise you:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/104/301043599_471deea960.jpg

― ledge, Monday, 19 September 2011 13:56 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

You can add this one to the list, passed it today on Leith Walk in Edinburgh:

http://imgur.com/a/wCjyC

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 2 January 2017 21:51 (nine years ago)

... try that again...

http://i.imgur.com/tUkSiVv.jpg

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 2 January 2017 21:52 (nine years ago)

Around the corner from me is a dormant shop that when it was trading as Mountain Stores was known locally as the Inconvenience Store. There was hardly ever any stock in it at all and it was one of Mr Sparkles tax fiddles(nickname for famous local heroin trafficker currently inside). If you liked warm out of date Carling or chocolate it was ok usually, but not much else! That the guy that run it was usually half cut and carrying fighting injuries obv added to it's charm.

And there is another one down the road where it was some kind of time-travel non-dispensing chemist that sold little more than toilet rolls and various cosmetics. The owner's son keeps it going like some bizarre shrine to his departed mother, but nobody actually buys anything from him and the opening hours are erratic. It is in an area of recent extreme white flight and he does very ugly window displays with lots of union jacks and piles up toilet roll multipacks around the door.

― calzino, Monday, 2 January 2017 22:19 (nine years ago)

The mystery chemist round the corner from me devotes around a quarter of the space to tins of boiled sweets with the Queen's picture on the front. It is like a portal to 1983.

― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 09:17 (nine years ago)

love borlands

― ogmor, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 09:40 (nine years ago)

I need to find my photo of MONARCH NOVELTIES on 14th. It is exquisite in its decrepitude. The front window always has giant stuffed animals wrapped in cellophane, the kind you can't actually win at carnival games unless you're Jason Bourne.

― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 14:16 (nine years ago)

Oh wait other people have taken better ones

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7540/15613697153_a9c6b7c1ee_b.jpg

― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 14:22 (nine years ago)

SIGN SIGNS

― ogmor, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 14:37 (nine years ago)

Back in the early '00s, the building next to where I lived had a store called called "Taqwa Media", which had exactly three different types of product in their display window:

* Computer programming guidebooks
* Protein snacks
* Weird Christian fiction novels (think "Left Behind", but more fringe)

Me and my flatmate always wondered whether it was niche store for religious bodybuilding coders, or a front for some money-laundering operation. We never dared to go inside to find out, and after a couple of years it disappeared, so I guess I'll never know.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 14:47 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/d0E9SCO.jpg

― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 22:47 (nine years ago)

what the

― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 23:05 (nine years ago)

that is legit terrifying

― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 23:05 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

Have a horrible sinking feeling that this place has closed for good - though, to be accurate, I've never actually seen it open - and been replaced by something else. I'll have to check on my way home tonight:

https://i.imgur.com/Loms2.jpg

― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 March 2018 18:12 (eight years ago)

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