History Main / WeSellEverything

* Airports, especially smaller ones, tend to harbor shops where passengers can find snacks, toiletries, camera memory cards, paperbacks, rain ponchos, earbuds, Dramamine, mittens, tape, pens, baby wipes... basically, they're We Sell Anything You Forgot To Stuff In Your Carryon stores.

* The Tuuri Village Shop in Finland, claimed to be the largest little village store in the world, and sells anything that one can hope to need. Just for comparison, the village it stands in has 500 residents. The shop gets 5,8 million customers yearly.

* [[http://www.costco.com/Browse/MainShop.aspx?cat=24091&eCat=BC The real Costco]] is a RealLife example of this.

** Except they [[http://www.costco.com/Common/Category.aspx?cat=20595&eCat=BC do sell coffins]].
** And wedding gowns! Costco is the place you want to be when there's a ZombieApocalypse.
** Annnnnnddd they have member-only referrals to home-buying and build-to-suit services too. So yeah…

* Big-chain superstores such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} Wal-Mart]], Target or Tesco often fall under this. A memorable cartoon in ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' showed anti-Tesco protestors buying their "No to Tesco" protest signs and T-shirts...from Tesco, while remarking "They really ''do'' sell everything!"
** Doubly funny when it transpired that this was ''[[{{Defictionalization}} actually true]]'' to some extent - Tesco was selling a campaigner's anti-Tesco book at lower prices than any other supplier, and thus [[{{irony}} turned a profit from his writing]].

* Also suburban "pharmacies" in the United States, which sell grocery staples, office supplies, cheap toys, and seasonal merchandise as well as prescription and OTC drugs, and grooming products. They're basically a modern-day version of general stores. This arguably makes the aforementioned ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}'' example slightly more TruthInTelevision. Furthermore, pharmacies everywhere in the US all sell cigarettes, and usually sell alcohol (if the laws of the state allow it). CVS eventually stopped selling cigarettes when they asked themselves why, as a health-and-wellness store, did they sell something as toxic as cigarettes? They then replaced all the tobacco products with stop-smoking aids. This approach with drug stores in the United States is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to laws in some places prohibiting stores from being open on Sundays unless they sell essential items. The easiest such essential item to obtain and sell is medicine, and so these drug stores become one-stop shopping in these towns for people who need (or really want) to buy something on a Sunday. Inversely, major department stores like Target and Walmart installed pharmacies into their locations so they could remain open too.

** 100 kilogram pure cocaine. The auction, landing at something like 5000 US dollars, was deleted after 18 hours.

** In July of 2015 one student at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio who was disgruntled at a recent series of cuts made by the university's president and trustee board, posed as the president and put the ''entire university campus'' on sale!

* Soon after Mall Of America opened, and was revealed to include every conceivable sort of shop or service from an attached hotel to classrooms hired out by overcrowded schools, jokes started circulating that all it needed was an obstetrician and a funeral home, and no one would ''ever'' have to leave the building.
* The Canadian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_West_Company North West Company]] is a chain of stores in northern Canada and Alaska that sells everything from groceries to Inuit art to furs and general merchandise. Obviously with the remoteness of Alaska and Canada's northern territories, as well as the small population, there's not much point in having larger store chains that all sell different things.

* Shoppers Drug Mart is Canada's largest drugstore chain. They sell seasonal decorations, various fashion accessories (like scarves and jewelry), a decent selection of groceries, magazines and best-selling books, children's toys, small electronic items, and gift cards from various other stores. Some of the stores also have a Canada Post outlet where people can send or pick up packages.

* On ''Series/NorthernExposure'', the general store seemed to have everything (so long as Joel wasn't looking for something New York-ish). "Left-handed noodle strainer? Let me look in the back."

* Food and Stuff from ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''.