Talk:funeral store

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funeral store

What do we think about this one? - TheDaveRoss 14:12, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Delete. Obvious SOP. KevinUp (talk) 14:37, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Something I have never heard of. Is it an American thing? I would say keep it. In Britain an undertaker has an office where one can arrange a funeral, show a death certificate, and choose a coffin from a catalogue. It ain't no "store". DonnanZ (talk) 16:12, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

This puts a funeral store right in the middle of 1927 Swansea.  --Lambiam 20:51, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

I'm not sure what is meant there, it appears to be a mortuary. Is that the only British link to be found? DonnanZ (talk) 23:20, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Possibly a store for storage, not for selling things. DonnanZ (talk) 09:36, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Some more: [1]; [2]; [3]; [4].  --Lambiam 16:45, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

A couple of those are for "mortuary and funeral equipment", which doesn't fit the definition of the entry. The other two may be isolated copycats. DonnanZ (talk) 17:11, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

In the good ol' U-S-of-A you might not get free health care, but you can absolutely accessorize your coffin. - TheDaveRoss 16:20, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Delete – a fūnus-related store. Fay Freak (talk) 16:33, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Oh, do we speak Latin all of a sudden? I think there is a good case for keeping this for the benefit of non-American users. DonnanZ (talk) 16:48, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Keep. They don't sell funerals. ---> Tooironic (talk) 01:39, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Delete. Pace User:Tooironic, they sell things for funerals just like a google books:"Christmas shop" sells Christmas-themed things (without selling the holiday itself somehow), a google books:"wedding store" sells things for weddings, a google books:"party rental" store rents tuxedos etc for parties, etc, etc... and it's not even a set phrase, "funeral shop" and "funeral shoppe" are also attested, as is "mortuary store" (about half the hits I see are for a store selling things, with the other half referring to storage spaces). (And pace Donnanz, I don't get the impression that it's common in American English and absent from other dialects; as Lambiam points out, they exist in the UK and other places; it just seems they're not very common anywhere — because it seems like funeral homes usually handle the sale of urns, etc.) - -sche (discuss) 09:46, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Delete per -sche. Per utramque cavernam 10:47, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

I would be happy to keep this but do not know which card to play. I sometimes like things explicitly disambiguated: having a def like "A store selling products and services for funerals, such as caskets or urns" is nice. In Czech, we don't seem to have *"pohřební obchod" so the entry also clarifies the term exists in the first place, SOP or not SOP. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:58, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

• Comment: I don't necessarily think that we need to keep this entry, but I do feel that our entry for store does not adequately convey that a "[foo] store" can mean a store that specializes in selling products in the [foo] category. bd2412 T 00:58, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

  If anyone comes up with wording to convey this, note that the same general thing is true of "shop" (as in "Christmas shop") and probably some other words ("business"?) and could also be added there. - -sche (discuss) 01:25, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Failed - TheDaveRoss 15:23, 29 March 2020 (UTC)