Shops & retail

These businesses are mostly retail — finished things handed over — with the occasional service or food line mixed in. Model each as a product, with variants for the forms you stock.

Clothing boutique

Moves: retail.

1. Each garment is its own product, one-to-one stock.
2. Axes Colour and Size; create only the combinations you stock, each with a matching SKU.
3. Larger sizes that cost more carry a price difference on those variants.
4. "Summer Sale" and "New In" are rule-driven collections, not categories.

Trap: a t-shirt and a hoodie are separate products, not variants of each other.

Electronics store

Moves: retail (+ a little service if you offer repairs or setup).

1. Each model is a product; axes like Storage and Colour; switch to load-on-demand for large grids.
2. Serial numbers live in inventory batches, not as variants.
3. Accessories are separate products; "works with" groupings are collections.
4. A paid setup or repair is a service appointment.

Trap: don't model each serial as a variant — the variant is the configuration (256GB Blue), the serials sit under it.

Bookshop

Moves: retail.

1. Each title is a product (one-to-one). The ISBN is the SKU/barcode.
2. Formats (paperback / hardback / audio) are either variants of one title or separate products — decide by whether the shopper picks a format of "this book" or compares editions.
3. "Staff picks" and "Award winners" are collections over tags.

Pharmacy

Moves: retail (medication, OTC) + service (consultations) + consent.

1. OTC products are retail.
2. Prescription items use a custom field of type file (upload) marked consent, so fulfilment is gated on a valid prescription.
3. A pharmacist consultation is a service appointment.

Trap: the prescription requirement is a consent-tagged field the system enforces, not a note staff must remember to check.

Grocer with a deli

Moves: retail (packaged) + food (made-to-order).

1. Packaged goods are retail, one-to-one stock.
2. Deli items are food — fixed recipes, or a build-your-own sub.
3. Items sold by weight use the unit and price the customer understands (per kg).

Trap: a made-to-order sandwich isn't retail — give it a recipe so ingredients deduct.

Butcher

Moves: retail + food (cut/prepared to order).

1. Packaged cuts are retail, sold by unit or weight.
2. Made-to-order platters and marinated cuts are food recipes drawing from raw stock.

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