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== Advertising ==

 

* The rental shop Nine Dragons in ''[[Nerima Daikon Brothers]]'' always has what the main characters need to take down the episode's target, which over the course of the series included bazookas, vegetable costumes, a heat-seeking enema, a drill machine, a VHS of ''Dog of Flanders'', and a golden microphone, among other things.

 

* Any frontier town's general store in ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' will sell everything. Lampshaded when Luke has a fistfight with some outlaw in one of them, and the owner lists out loud all the items that get broken.

** In another story, the store owner stated that there is a two week delivery time for the impossible.

* The ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' comics feature a battle scene at Honest Ed's, a multi level discount store that takes up an entire city block in downtown Toronto. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Ed's It's a real place] (although possibly not for much longer).

 

* The drive-through mall scene in ''[[The Blues Brothers]]''.

{{quote|'''Jake''': There's pants and burgers.

* In ''[[Tremors]]'', Chang's general store sells a sufficient range of products that when Rhonda [[Fan Service|loses her pants]] and shoes, replacements in her size can be found right there on the shelves. This, for a shop that supplies a valley that's home to less than twenty people.

 

* In ''[[Last Chance To See]]'', [[Douglas Adams]] describes shopping in Zaire:

{{quote|''Most of the other shops were in fact impossible to identify. When a shop appeared to sell a mixture of ghetto blasters, socks, soap and chickens, it didn't seem unreasonable to go in and ask if they'd got any toothpaste or paper stuck away on one of their shelves as well, but they looked at me as if I was completely mad. Couldn't I see that this was a ghetto blaster, socks, soap and chicken shop?

Eventually, after trailing up and down the street for half a mile in either direction, I found both of them at a tiny street stall which also turned out to sell biros, airmail envelopes and cigarette lighters, and in fact seemed to be so peculiarly attuned to my needs that I was tempted to ask if they had a copy of ''New Scientist'' as well.'' }}

* Robert Asprin's ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' series has the Bazaar at Deva, which sells "anything you can imagine and a few things you can't." Deva is a planet/dimension occupied by the [[Lawful Evil]] Deevels who specialize in commerce and trade. Like Coruscant meets Wal-Mart, the entire planet ''is'' the bazaar. One hopes they made the moon a parking lot or something. The most bizarre thing the characters ever bought there is probably their headquarters, which is a [[Bigger on the Inside|small tent with the interior of a mansion]]; only the entrance is on Deva, while the rest is located in a parallel dimension populated by [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires]].

* In [[The Pendragon Adventure]], Quillian's Blok put everyone else out of business, [[One Nation Under Copyright|and took over Quillian]].

 

* Risky on ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]'' always has whatever the characters are looking for and can be purchased from the trunk of his car or from the inside of his jacket. The purchases usually end badly for the consumer; for instance, scalped tickets to a basketball game or concert are usually in nosebleed sections or a toaster will burn the toast.

* The 80's British sketch-comedy ''[[Assaulted Nuts]]'' did a bit set in a small dingy shop whose owner (played by [[Seinfeld|Wayne Knight]], of all people) explicitly offered this service: supply absolutely anything you need, and if he doesn't have it, you can marry his wife. A customer tries to prove him wrong by asking for ever-more-outlandish things, which are all instantly produced. (One being a multilayer cake supported by plastic frogs topped with a model of the crown of Scotland.) The owner finally gets fed up, and asks if the customer actually ''wants'' something. The customer asks for a can of beans. The owner sighs, and his hideous wife appears, eating the beans.

* Food and Stuff from ''[[Parks and Recreation]]''.

 

* The eponymous shop of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song "Hardware Store." Any hardware store that sells [[Squick|automatic circumcisers...]]

** Well, better automatic than manual. You want to do that by hand?

 

* The campus vending machines in ''[[GURPS]]: IOU'' con distribute almost anything. And we do mean '''anything'''.

* In ''[[Planescape]]'', the Great Bazaar in Sigil is an open-air market place where anything can be found that is not considered contraband in the city. (And very little is.) If you don't actually see it there, there's someone who can get one. A story told by patrons of a popular restaurant in the Clerk's Ward is that the owner was assigned by a superior at his Faction to buy a fresh squid for someone who liked seafood, and ended up ordering an illithid squidship. He was fortunately able to sell it at profit to a bunch of githyanki exiles who had stolen more money than they knew what to do with, and opened the restaurant with what he had left

 

* In RPGs like ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', it's common to have a weapon store, an armor store, and an Everything Else store, selling food, healing items, traveling items, [[Gotta Catch Them All|collectible items]]... and occasionally weapons and armor too. ''[[Ultima]]'', the granddaddy of them all, had perhaps the most bizarre example in a vehicle store where you could buy horses, boats, ''flying cars'', and '''starships'''.

* Tom Nook's store in ''[[Animal Crossing]].'' Want your very own asteroid to go along with your new pet gerbil and samurai sword? How about you pick up a can of paint and some medicine on the way up! And don't forget a birthday card for Curt, even though his birthday was a week ago! Their spotlight item announcements take the cake: "Dear shoppers! If you've ever wanted the moon, now's your chance!"

* Played Straight and averted in [[Fallout: New Vegas]]: There are a few "general stores" that sell most items, but in small amounts, but most merchants specialize in selling a lot of one thing: guns, medical supplies, food, liquor, are found in greatest quantities in specialty stores that sell only one kind of thing.

 

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': Pretty much ''anything'' can be obtained from Bubs's concession stand, including items that are either impractical for a place that small to stock (such as hot tubs or fancy leather chairs) or something that is difficult to imagine anyone ever ''wanting'' (such as a [[My Little Panzer|hobby kit]] with only dangerous items inside). [[Justified Trope|Justified]] because he has the only shop within city limits, as far as the viewers know.

** Its derivative series ''[[Teen Girl Squad]]'' has Manolios Ugly One's 'Lectro Pawn, where you can get a price on broken VCR, smashed tape,...

 

 

* Mega-Lo-Mart from ''[[King of the Hill]].''

* The [[Acme Products|ACME company]], which the characters of [[Looney Tunes]] constantly use products from, stands for 'A Company that Makes Everything'. Possibly a backronym that is actually derived from the Greek ''akme'', meaning "best."

* [[Kim Possible]] has Smartymart, which has everything from naked molerats to discount capri pants.

 

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100823030936/http://www.costco.com/Browse/MainShop.aspx?cat=24091&eCat=BC The real Costco] is a [[Real Life]] example of this.

** A somewhat obscure saying goes that you can buy everything you'd ever need at Costco except "the textbooks you study from, the tuxedo or gown you're married in, the house you live in, and the coffin in which you're buried."

 

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