How to tag small "zero waste" store in Canada that sells a wide variety of things including perishable and non-perisable food

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I’d like to add a POI for a store here in Victoria, BC, Canada. It’s the “Zero Waste Emporium”. They’re a smaller store that specializes in zero waste (no packaging) groceries. They have both fresh, frozen, and non-perishable food. They also sell non-food items.

I could use “tag:shop=supermarket”, but, to my ear, “supermarket” inplies a much larger store. My own inclination would be to use “grocery”, but I gather that tag is being discouraged.

Here’s their URL: https://www.zerowasteemporium.com/

I noticed some other discussion of this, but didn’t see a resolution.

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I would start from mapping

shop=yes
zero_waste=yes
note=see https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-to-tag-small-zero-waste-store-in-canada-that-sells-a-wide-variety-of-things-including-perishable-and-non-perisable-food/123021

or

shop=yes
zero_waste=only
note=see https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-to-tag-small-zero-waste-store-in-canada-that-sells-a-wide-variety-of-things-including-perishable-and-non-perisable-food/123021

(see Key:zero_waste - OpenStreetMap Wiki ) for start, few times I seen people looking for idea mapping and then not mapping object at all (including it happening few times with myself)

if you will get useful advise then maybe tagging will be changed, and future mappers will see description of what is going on anyway

is food a dominant product?

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Thank you. Yes, most of the floor space is food, however they do sell a wide range of other things including detergents, soaps, storage containers, toilet paper, etc. The problem is that to my Canadian/US ear, “supermarket” implies large, and “convenience” implies someplace that sells potato chips in a bag, beer, cigarettes, and maybe a few items in a fridge.

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shop=grocery

The wiki warns against using this tag in North America because most North American “grocery stores” are on the scale of “supermarkets”, but in this case it sounds like a perfect use of it.

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For info, here is some code that one data consumer (me) uses, based on how people were tagging things a while back. In UK/IE the order of usage of shops with zero waste tagged tended to be
:

  • Generic / Food / yes / convenience
  • Health Food shops
  • Supermarkets

Canada may be different, but if it’s “mostly a food shop” I’d choose a shop tag that reflects that (based on usage in Canada).

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After checking the commnents below, I’ve decided to go with “tag:shop=grocery”. I also found this article (What's the Difference Between a Grocery Store and Supermarket?), and noticed that the store describes itself as a “zero waste grocery store”. This is my first time adding OSM point of interest, so I’m trying to get a feel for the tagging system. Thank you for all the help!

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