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* This trope is played with in the ''2000AD'' ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' stories. People in the mega-city live in huge skyscraper "blocks" each of which is effectively a self-contained city including all shops and services ever required. You can be born, live and die in the same "block" and never have to leave it.

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* This trope is played with in the ''2000AD'' ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' stories. People in the mega-city live in huge skyscraper "blocks" each of which is effectively a [[{{arcology}} self-contained city including all shops and services ever required.required]]. You can be born, live and die in the same "block" and never have to leave it.
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Rouleau is a town, not a city.


** TruthInTelevision: The city of Rouleau where the show was filmed really has such a store!

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** TruthInTelevision: The city town of Rouleau where the show was filmed really has such a store!

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* In the Norwegian spoof adventure series ''[[Series/BrodreneDal Brødrene Dal]]'', the local gas station can easily provide you with everything you need to build a time machine. HilariousInHindsight, since the series was produced in the early eighties, and since then, most Norwegian gas stations has become all-purpose convenience stores that just happens to sell gas as well.

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* In the Norwegian spoof adventure series ''[[Series/BrodreneDal Brødrene Dal]]'', ''Series/BrodreneDal'', the local gas station can easily provide you with everything you need to build a time machine. HilariousInHindsight, since the series was produced in the early eighties, and since then, most Norwegian gas stations has become all-purpose convenience stores that just happens to sell gas as well. The punchline ends up being that the station ''doesn't'' sell gas.
-->'''Manager:''' We stopped selling gas years ago, it got too expensive. Now we're just a Station.
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* In ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', Jacket heads to a different store at the end of each level to pick up various items. These stores are almost always manned by "Beard"; a NewAgeRetroHippie who wears square-rimmed spectacles. It doesn't matter where Jacket goes; a bar, a pizzeria, a VCR store... Beard is always there to greet him at the counter.
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* ''Manga/NonNonBiyori'': Besides running a candy store, Kaede also rents out skiing equipment and futons. As she informs Hotaru, she also does mail orders.
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* Subverted in ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld''. Akira tries to purchase an information gathering device from Shizuka's store, but she tells him that it's outside of her expertise and to go elsewhere. Luckily for him, he doesn't have to since Elena sells him her old, unused one.
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* 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.
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* The John Boy and Billy Big Show occasionally features ads from "JD's 24-Hour Drive-Thru Pawn & Gun Auto Parts Discount Pharmaceutical Adult Gift Bait & Tackle Discount Cigarette Outlet." Its spokesman is a fast-talking huckster who's always pitching a huge variety of items both common and bizarre.
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* In Series/TrialAndError, the frozen yogurt shop in East Peck is also the local forgery store.


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* Port Providence from ''Podcast/{{Jemjammer}}'' features a store called "Stuff". It sells basically everything, though predominantly antiques, and is large enough that Aelgfifu needs to roll a Survival check in order to help the party get out safely.
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* Harrods, an upmarket department store in London, once claimed to sell anything, "from a packet of fern seeds to an elephant". Urban legend has it that a man determined to disprove the claim that Harrod's could get their customers anything went in and asked for an elephant. The sales attendant, completely unfazed, replied with the follow-up question: "Would that be African or Indian, Sir?"

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* Harrods, an upmarket department store in London, once claimed to sell anything, "from a packet of fern seeds to an elephant". Urban legend has it that a man determined to disprove the claim that Harrod's could get their customers anything went in and asked for an elephant. The sales attendant, completely unfazed, replied with the follow-up question: "Would that be African or Indian, Sir?"Sir?" They actually sold lions [[https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/harrods-to-close-its-world-famous-pet-shop-and-replace-it-with-womens-fashion-floor-9050931.html once]].
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* ''VideoGame/AKnightsQuestForMilk'': The "Everything But Milk" store which sells literally everything but milk. This is parodied when Knight asks one of the clerks if they sell a "evil zombie nazi" or a "giant pickle".
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* In the main ''Videogame/{{Pokemon}}'' games, the biggest city in each region (except [[VideoGame/{PokemonXAndY Kalos]]) always has a department store. In RBY, one floor sold the usually-rare ''evolution stones''! Good thing you get an Eevee in Celadon...

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* In the main ''Videogame/{{Pokemon}}'' games, the biggest city in each region (except [[VideoGame/{PokemonXAndY [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Kalos]]) always has a department store. In RBY, one floor sold the usually-rare ''evolution stones''! Good thing you get an Eevee in Celadon...
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* In the main ''Videogame/{{Pokemon}}'' games, the biggest city in each region always has a department store. In RBY, one floor sold the usually-rare ''evolution stones''! Good thing you get an Eevee in Celadon...

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* In the main ''Videogame/{{Pokemon}}'' games, the biggest city in each region (except [[VideoGame/{PokemonXAndY Kalos]]) always has a department store. In RBY, one floor sold the usually-rare ''evolution stones''! Good thing you get an Eevee in Celadon...

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* Tom Nook's store in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing.'' 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!"
** Later games would split up the shops more, for instance moving the clothes and accessories over to the Able Sisters' shop. In ''New Leaf'', there are actually two separate shops that sell furniture.

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Tom Nook's store in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing.'' the original game. 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!"
** Later games would split up the shops more, for instance moving the clothes and accessories over to the Able Sisters' shop. In ''New Leaf'', there are actually two separate shops that sell furniture.furniture: Re-Tail sells used furniture, while the Nooklings' store on Main Street sells new things.
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* Amazon is an online version of this trope. Not only are you practically guaranteed to find ''something'' in the category of item you're looking for, you're likely to find every make and model of that type of thing currently in production. And if it's ''not'' in production, you can buy a used one. This has only gotten more true since they opened their platform up to third parties. If the thing you're

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* Amazon is an online version of this trope. Not only are you practically guaranteed to find ''something'' in the category of item you're looking for, you're likely to find every make and model of that type of thing currently in production. And if it's ''not'' in production, you can buy a used one. This has only gotten more true since they opened their platform up to third parties. If the thing you're
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* Although a bit on the small side (the entire store could fit inside Costco's freezers), the Tooth of Time Traders at Philmont Scout Ranch claims that you can walk in with nothing but a credit card and walk out entirely outfitted for the backcountry. To date only our treks from Japan have tried (BTW, Thanks guys.) True of many Trading Posts at many Scout Camps. Need a thermal blanket? Go past the slushies and the decks of cards, they should be right next to the frisbees and sweatshirts.
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* Big-chain superstores such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} Wal-Mart]] 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!"

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* Big-chain superstores such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} Wal-Mart]] 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!"
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* Amazon is an online version of this trope. Not only are you practically guaranteed to find ''something'' in the category of item you're looking for, you're likely to find every make and model of that type of thing currently in production. This has only gotten more true since they opened their platform up to third parties.

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* Amazon is an online version of this trope. Not only are you practically guaranteed to find ''something'' in the category of item you're looking for, you're likely to find every make and model of that type of thing currently in production. And if it's ''not'' in production, you can buy a used one. This has only gotten more true since they opened their platform up to third parties. If the thing you're
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** Another example of this trope being the same singer's "eBay", which features examples of would-be strange purchases on the eponymous website. (See the RealLife section for the sort of thing he's sending up.)

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** Another example of this trope being the same singer's "eBay", "Website/EBay", which features examples of would-be strange purchases on the eponymous website. (See the RealLife section for the sort of thing he's sending up.)



** You cannot sell purely intangible things, such as your soul, but you can come awfully close-- you could, for instance, sell a ''certificate'' that turns over ownership of your soul to the buyer. One concrete example of coming pretty close-- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sold_My_Soul_on_eBay Hemant Mehta]] sold the right to determine where he would attend worship services; the book ended up titled "I Sold My Soul On eBay" because of the spin media commentators put on it.

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** You cannot sell purely intangible things, such as your soul, but you can come awfully close-- you could, for instance, sell a ''certificate'' that turns over ownership of your soul to the buyer. One concrete example of coming pretty close-- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sold_My_Soul_on_eBay Hemant Mehta]] sold the right to determine where he would attend worship services; the book ended up titled "I Sold My Soul On eBay" Website/EBay" because of the spin media commentators put on it.



** While the sale of relics and other ancient artifacts are fine on [=eBay=] assuming that all guidelines are met, the sale of Native American items and other cultural goods is verboten. Not to mention that Catholics took umbrage on what is seen as rampant simony, or the sale of sacred things such as saintly relics, which is in violation of Canon Law. Besides being seen as illegal and sinful[[note]]Though exceptions to this are however [[JustifiedTrope allowed]], e.g. if the relic in question is being bought or sold to keep it from falling into the wrong hands like greedy treasure hunters[[/note]], many of them relics are derived from human remains, which cannot be sold on the site.

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** While the sale of relics and other ancient artifacts are fine on [=eBay=] Website/EBay assuming that all guidelines are met, the sale of Native American items and other cultural goods is verboten. Not to mention that Catholics took umbrage on what is seen as rampant simony, or the sale of sacred things such as saintly relics, which is in violation of Canon Law. Besides being seen as illegal and sinful[[note]]Though exceptions to this are however [[JustifiedTrope allowed]], e.g. if the relic in question is being bought or sold to keep it from falling into the wrong hands like greedy treasure hunters[[/note]], many of them relics are derived from human remains, which cannot be sold on the site.
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** While the sale of relics and other ancient artifacts are fine on [=eBay=] assuming that all guidelines are met, the sale of Native American items and other cultural goods is verboten. Not to mention that Catholics took umbrage on what is seen as rampant simony, or the sale of sacred things such as saintly relics, which is in violation of Canon Law. Besides being seen as illegal and sinful[[note]]Though exceptions to this are however [[JustifiedTrope allowed]], e.g. if the relic in question is being bought or sold to keep it from falling into the wrong hands like greedy treasure hunters[[/note]], many of them relics are derived from human remains, which cannot be sold on the site.
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* Big-chain superstores such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} Wal-Mart]] or Tesco often fall under this. A memorable cartoon in ''PrivateEye'' showed anti-Tesco protestors buying their "No to Tesco" protest signs and T-shirts...from Tesco, while remarking "They really ''do'' sell everything!"

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* Big-chain superstores such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} Wal-Mart]] or Tesco often fall under this. A memorable cartoon in ''PrivateEye'' ''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!"
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* Jack Jeebs' pawn shop in ''Film/MenInBlack'' sells the usual assortment of items, including plenty of stolen gold chains, but also a range of alien weapons.
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* The campus vending machines in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: IOU'' con distribute almost anything. And we do mean '''anything'''.

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* The campus vending machines in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: IOU'' con ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS IOU}}'' can distribute almost anything. And we do mean '''anything'''.
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* In the Anime Magical play, there is an episode with a market were you buy anything, and when you run out of money, theres a stand that sells money too!

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* In the Anime Magical play, anime ''Magical Play'', there is an episode with a market were you buy anything, and when you run out of money, theres a stand that sells money too!
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* The eponymous shop in ''Series/MopatopsShop'' sells, in Mopatop's own words, "everything that you could ever think or dream of", including stuff that you would not reasonably expect to find being sold at a store, such as rivers, hot and cold, and even fictional items such as lettuce that hums.
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* Big-chain superstores such as [[{{Walmart}} Wal-Mart]] or Tesco often fall under this. A memorable cartoon in ''PrivateEye'' showed anti-Tesco protestors buying their "No to Tesco" protest signs and T-shirts...from Tesco, while remarking "They really ''do'' sell everything!"

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* Big-chain superstores such as [[{{Walmart}} [[UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} Wal-Mart]] or Tesco often fall under this. A memorable cartoon in ''PrivateEye'' showed anti-Tesco protestors buying their "No to Tesco" protest signs and T-shirts...from Tesco, while remarking "They really ''do'' sell everything!"
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* The Kourindou, ran by Rinnosuke, in ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' Doujins. He sells a lot of stuff, usually taken from the world outside the boundaries of Gensokyo (Earth itself). Justified, though. When your supplier is [[RealityWarper Yukari Yakumo]], getting a hold of miscellaneous object is very easy.

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* The Kourindou, ran by Rinnosuke, in ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' Doujins. He sells a lot of stuff, usually taken from the world outside the boundaries of Gensokyo (Earth itself). Justified, though. When your supplier is [[RealityWarper Yukari Yakumo]], getting a hold of miscellaneous object objects is very easy.
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* EBay

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* EBayWebsite/EBay
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* Invoked by Percy in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout4}}.

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* Invoked by Percy in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout4}}.''VideoGame/{{Fallout4}}''.
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Percy practically says this word for word.

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* Invoked by Percy in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout4}}.
-->''"Don't know what you're looking for? We have everything!"''

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