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Japanese Bookshop Stocks Only One Book at a Time

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Re: Japanese Bookshop Stocks Only One Book at a Time

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I adopted a similar strategy for Tomotcha: we pick/sell only one tea each month. Most of our competitors send several samples each month, and from a revenue point of view maybe it's better, but I like the ability to give focus to a single tea. For instance our next shipment is a Genmaicha: it's a combination of green tealeaves and roasted brown rice. The first time I drank Genmaicha I didn't like it much, because it'…

If I like a particular tea, do you allow me to buy it again, afterwards? It would be reasonable, I think.

It really depends on the tea, if we still have it or if we can still reorder it from the producer. It will be pretty much impossible for a Shincha (new tea), as they are usually limited in quantity, and quite short lived. On the other end of the spectrum roasted green teas (houjicha) live much longer, so we can usually reorder them from the producer if we are out of stock.

Re: Japanese Bookshop Stocks Only One Book at a Time

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What a totally organic and subtle way of advertising. Ugh. Get lost.

You can't attack another user like that on HN, even when you think their comment was out of line. Please don't do this again.

(Xixi's comment was fine anyhow. It's good when people talk about what they're working on, and the connection to the OP was a nice one. Sometimes HN users do get excessive or inappropriate about it, but there was nothing of that here.)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10786664 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Japanese Bookshop Stocks Only One Book at a Time

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Clothes are an exception here If I could buy all my clothes online I would. The problem is sizes are at best a rough guid - different brands and even different styles in the same brand, fit completely differently. I guess I could find one outfit that fits and then just buy that online when I need a replacement :)

We have already solved that problem. People could just measure their waist and other atributes with one of those flexible clothier's Measuring Tape things. Then have those be searchable and selectable on the store. Getting people to actually do their own body measurement could be a problem though.

When I lived in a rural area as a child that's exactly what we did. My mother measured everyone and bought our clothes through the Sears catalog.
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