EM-RTL-01 · Subject model · W-IND
Selling location and sales channel
A place where a retailer sells: a physical store, an online storefront, a marketplace storefront or a pop-up, with its format, trading hours, services and fulfilment capabilities. The physical site and the legal entity are separate contours.
Partially published; research continues
Claude: initial-industry-contour-and-card-supplement; Grok: not-started.
Published results
The independent second-provider study, fixtures and the full research protocol remain open. Runtime promotion is governed by the package allocation holds.
Subject boundary and candidate types
- SellingLocation
- SalesChannel
- StoreFormat
- TradingHours
- FulfilmentCapability
Deep research questions
- When is a refitted store a new selling location and when the same one?
- How are online storefronts and marketplace storefronts represented next to stores?
- Which fulfilment capabilities, such as pickup or ship from store, belong to the location?
Verifiable invariants
- Each selling location has one operating legal entity at a time
- Trading hours state their time zone and exceptions
- Closing a location keeps its history for returns and reporting
End-to-end acceptance scenario
For a synthetic retailer, model two stores, a web shop and a marketplace storefront, relocate one store, add click and collect, and keep the sales history continuous.
Negative case
A store's street address is used as its identity, so a relocation is reported as one store closing and an unrelated store opening.
Approaches to compare
- GS1 Global Location Number: identification of locations and parties
- schema.org: Store, OnlineStore and OpeningHoursSpecification
- Retail store format and sales channel practice
Candidates in the live catalogue
- WM-BLT-006 · Facility · 0.3.0-research.1 · installable
Semantic fit requires boundary research; a published model does not by itself complete this card. - WM-BLT-008 · Site / Campus · 0.3.0-research.1 · installable
Semantic fit requires boundary research; a published model does not by itself complete this card. - WM-XCT-010 · Location Referencing / Address · 0.3.0-research.1 · installable
Semantic fit requires boundary research; a published model does not by itself complete this card.
Result requirements
Every card is executed together with the full research contract: definitions, fields and cardinalities, lifecycle, sources, data mastership, rights, the five object facets, at least eight invariants, positive and negative examples, dependencies, migration and applicability limits.