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"Slug killers, killer slugs, road drills, ear plugs..."
— 'We Sell Everything', Leon Rosselson

Ever wonder what those stores that buy anything do with the random stuff they accumulate?

It might be a little drug store down by the corner that, in addition to medications and cosmetics also has entire rows of audio equipment and computer games and a toy section. It might be an expansive, labyrinthine mega-mart with a grocery store, hardware store, and clothing, one that's so large it has its own zip code. However, when you walk in, you can be assured of one thing: It sells everything. Absolutely everything. (Except, if you happen to be a Butt-Monkey, the one thing you're looking for.)

It sells things you would never expect to see in the same store together—such as, say, baseball bats, frying pans, instant ramen, and cold remedies. The smaller the store, the more specialized you would expect it to be, so the more unlikely this seems—why is a tiny general store out in the middle of the sticks offering fine art?

Sometimes, the stuff for sale there shatters the bound of all logic—where on earth (or the moon) did they get their hands on a lunar lander? Lord only knows who their suppliers are. If the shop is little and out-of-the-way, it may come bundled with a possibly insane, Q-like proprietor who is quick to suggest all manner of goods to his or her customers. If the shop is enormous, expect to need a map just to find your way to the microwave popcorn.

Also quite common in video games, due to the fact that the gameplay tends to be sculpted around the hero's quest. If you find a shopping district full of these then you are in a Bazaar of the Bizarre. Oftentimes, even the far reaches of the unknown are populated with tiny tent stores that boast a huge selection despite no one shopping there (in fact, being so far into the game, they're likely to have more stuff). If all auction houses, stock exchanges and brick & mortar stores are this regardless of location then you probably have an MMO on your hand.

Contrast with Severely Specialized Store. Compare with We Buy Anything.


Examples:

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    Advertising 

    Anime & Manga 
  • 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.
  • Non Non Biyori: Besides running a candy store, Kaede also rents out skiing equipment and futons. As she informs Hotaru, she also does mail orders.
  • The Kourindou, ran by Rinnosuke, in 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 Yukari Yakumo, getting a hold of miscellaneous objects is very easy.
  • 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!
  • Subverted in Rebuild World. 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.

    Comic Books 
  • 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.
  • In the Tintin comic Cigars of the Pharaoh, the first appearance of merchant Oliveira da Figueira somewhere in the Middle East is announced by natives as "The white man who sells everything". He then proceeds to sell Tintin a random collection of objects, including for instance skis and a parrot.
  • In a Spirou & Fantasio comic happening in Africa, the heroes discover a shop in the middle of the jungle, whose drunken owner claims he can sell everything. They are indeed able to find camping gear, guns with hypodermic needles, and yellow paint in his shop.
  • 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. It's a real place.
  • A "The Lighter Side Of..." cartoon in MAD had the owner of a drugstore extolling the range of goods his store sold, including aeroplanes. The customer then said he wanted to get a prescription filled to which the owner's response was "What are you? Some kind of wise guy?".
  • Store Wars had Bloggs' corner shop, which sold anything and everything and was next door to a Superstore which did no business as a result.
  • This trope is played with in the 2000AD Judge Dredd 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.
  • In Li'l Abner, there was entrepreneur Available Jones, who was always available (for a price) and could obtain anything a paying customer wanted, from safety pins to battleship. He also provided many services, including watching babies. (Dry—5¢, Other kinds—10¢). Of course, his most valuable service was his literally stunning cousin, Stupefyin' Jones.
  • In Achille Talon, there is Vincent Poursan (a Pun on "cent pour cent", which means 100%). He can sell practically anything to the protagonist, though it is always improbably expensive (and he's not a crook: he tells that what he sells is incredibly expensive, and he's proud of it, such as in this memorable quote when he's about to sell Talon a medication supposed to heal amnesia: "the prince itself shall be forever carved in your memory"). It is alternated with New Job as the Plot Demands (sometimes Poursan owns a shop that sells anything, and other times he happens to own the precise shop Talon is going to need).

    Fan Works 
  • The store Absolutely Everything from Fallout: Equestria. It lives up to its name, and if its propertier, the ghoul Derpy Hooves, finds anything it doesn't sell, she will endeavor to correct that.
  • In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, the four find a store called Anything, where you can buy any nonmagical item (you tell the proprietor what you want, and he goes in the back and gets it). George twice buys a guitar there. The four wonder how such things are created, especially since a junky guitar costs exactly the same as a really good one.
    • In a variation, for meals they mostly rely on the worldwide chain of fast-food joints called Infinity, where you can get any food that you ask for. This makes it easy for them to follow their various dietary preferences, as well as avoid the weird foods that the Geddies and other outworlders eat.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • The drive-through mall scene in The Blues Brothers.
    Jake: There's pants and burgers.
    Elwood: Yeah, lots of space in this mall.
    Jake: Disco pants and haircuts.
    Elwood: Yeah... Baby clothes.
    Jake: This place has got everything.
    Elwood: The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year.
  • Idiocracy's Costco actually has its own subway system and university.
  • In Tremors, Chang's general store sells a sufficient range of products that when Rhonda 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. Probably justified because it's literally the only store for miles around.

    Literature 
  • In Last Chance To See, Douglas Adams describes shopping in Zaire:
    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 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.
    • Deveels aren't so much Lawful Evil as they are fantasy-style Ferengi.
    • Also, the Bazaar does not actually take up the entire planetary surface. It's just that there's no longer anything else worth noting on the planet (such as signs of life, bodies of water or landmarks), and all dimensional coordinates to go to Deva get remapped to in-Bazaar locations. Between this and the way the entire Bazaar shifts about, no ordinary visitor would ever become aware that the place has a boundary, and nobody in Deva and not in the Bazaar is likely to stay that way for long.
  • In one of his books Dave Barry has this to say...
    In Los Angeles, I went into a Long's drugstore where the product on display at the cash register was: a sofa. Really. Suspended ominously right behind the cashier's head was a full-sized sofa, priced at $499. Apparently, this is for the harried shopper who gets to the cashier and goes, "Let's see ... dental floss, aspirin, and ... Ohmigosh! I almost forgot the sofa!"
  • The Last Chance General Store in A Series of Unfortunate Events, although (as the name implies) it is a smallish shop in the middle of nowhere, fits this trope. They even have telegraph service as well as fiber-optic cables.
  • In Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants, when the main characters need fabric softener, they go to the nearby supermarket, named "Everything Except" something they can't remember. It's Everything Except Fabric Softener, of course. As the name implies, there's only one thing you can't buy there.
  • In The Pendragon Adventure, Quillian's Blok put everyone else out of business, and took over Quillian.
  • Tom from Deltora Quest sells "everything for the traveller". His wares include (but are far from limited to) such weird things as slippers for sore feet, a pipe that blows glowing bubbles, beads that start fires when broken, objects that can swallow up water and expand to create temporary bridges across bodies of water, and much more. When the protagonists first visit his store, they have to desperately restrain themselves from wasting all their money. Naturally, almost everything they do buy ends up being a Chekhov's Gun.
  • At one point in the Emberverse-series, Mike and Signe visit a local inn/trading post. They ask if a number of rugs are for sale and the proprietor answers that the only things in his trading post that aren't for sale are his employees, their personal weapons and the land the trading post is on.

    Live-Action TV 
  • 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 Anglo-American sketch-comedy Assaulted Nuts did a bit set in a small dingy shop whose owner (played by Wayne Knight of later Seinfeld fame) 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.
  • On Northern Exposure, the general store seems to have everything (so long as Joel isn't looking for something New York-ish). "Left-handed noodle strainer? Let me look in the back."
  • "Green Acres" has Mr. Haney, who always conveniently had whatever Oliver needed for his farm. The products were inevitably of very poor quality or totally inappropriate for what was needed.
  • Corner Gas has a store that sells both liquor and insurance of all things. The eponymous store also is pretty well stocked for a gas station. Truth in Television: The town of Rouleau where the show was filmed really has such a store!
  • In the Norwegian spoof adventure series Brødrene Dal, the local gas station can easily provide you with everything you need to build a time machine. Hilarious in Hindsight, 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.
  • The eponymous Puttnam's Prairie Emporium was a five-and-dime store that sold absolutely anything you could think of; one of its patrons would come in and ask for outlandish products like mosquito kneepads, which Mr. Puttnam would always have available.
  • Much of the Sliders episode "Season's Greedings" takes place in a mall that contains not only shops but also housing, schools, hospitals, etc.
  • The Monty Python's Flying Circus episode "Michael Ellis," one of the few episodes with a single plot, derives much of its humor from the fact that it takes place in such a store. Items for sale include but are not limited to domestic ants, working flamethrowers, atomic weaponry, cosmetic surgery, Victorian poetry, endings and Dodgy Toupees. The store is a parody of Harrods, mentioned in the "Real Life" section below.
  • The eponymous shop in Mopatop's Shop 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.
  • In Trial & Error, the frozen yogurt shop in East Peck is also the local forgery store.

    Music 
  • The eponymous shop of "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Hardware Store", in which is likely the most over-the-top example of this trope:
    Weird Al: Would you look at all that stuff ... They've got allen wrenches, gerbil feeders, toilet seats, electric heaters, trash compactors, juice extractors, shower rods and water meters, walkie-talkies, copper wires, safety goggles, radial tires, BB pellets, rubber mallets, fans and dehumidifiers, picture hangers, paper cutters, waffle irons, window shutters, paint removers, window louvres, masking tape and plastic gutters, kitchen faucets, folding tables, weather stripping, jumper cables, hooks and tackle, grout and spackle, power foggers, spoons and ladles, pesticides for fumigation, high-performance lubrication, metal roofing, water proofing, multi-purpose insulation, air compressors, brass connectors, wrecking chisels, smoke detectors, tire gauges, hamster cages, thermostats and bug deflectors, trailer hitch demagnetizers, automatic circumcisersnote , tennis rackets, angle brackets, Duracells and Energizers, soffit panels, circuit breakers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, calculators, generators, matching salt and pepper shakers!
    • 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 Real Life section for the sort of thing he's sending up.)
  • The setting of "Dixie Rose Deluxe's Honky Tonk, Feed Store, Gun Shop, Used Car, Beer, Bait, BBQ, Barbershop, Laundromat" by Trent Willmon.

    Podcasts 
  • Port Providence from 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.
  • Trials & Trebuchets has Crowe Mercantile Corporation, which seems to sell any kind of product one could ever want or need.

    Radio 
  • In one of Denis Norden's monologues on My Word!, he recalls being a Blitz Evacuee to a village with one shop that sold everything. He well remembers the proprietress going up and down the ladder to get a motorbike or piano from the shelves. She also sold ladders. And shelves.
  • 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.

    Tabletop Games 
  • The campus vending machines in GURPS Illuminati University can 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.)

    Video Games 
  • 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, 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.
  • Animal Crossing:
    • Tom Nook's store in 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: Re-Tail sells used furniture, while the Nooklings' store on Main Street sells new things.
  • Dicey Dungeons: Though the contestants are generally only interested in what kind of equipment Yolanda's got for sale, she often refers to other products she's got on hand.
  • In EarthBound, the drug stores somehow found themselves stocking a lot of non-pharmaceutical items, like baseball bats, frying pans, and broken equipment. Averted later on in the major cities, where there are large shopping malls which have individual shops with different specialties, of which drugstores with slightly more reasonable stock are a recurring component; obviously the malls still sell everything, but there's a reasonable reason for it this time.
  • The Elder Scrolls:
    • Daggerfall averts it. With the exception of General Stores and Pawn Shops, shops will only buy and sell items relevant to their business. So blacksmiths will not buy clothes and jewelers will not buy armor.
    • Morrowind continues the trend. Shops will only deal in items relevant to them. The exceptions are general traders and pawnbrokers, but they typically have far less gold available for bartering to offset it. Two other major exceptions are the talking Mudcrab Merchant and the talking Scamp, Creeper. They have 10,000 and 5000 gold respectively (the most of any merchants in the vanilla game), and will buy almost anything you attempt to sell them. What they do with said purchased items is never revealed... Additionally, most shops will not do business with you if you have any of the illegal drugs Skooma or Moon Sugar in your inventory.
    • Skyrim also averts it. Stores will only buy what is relevant to their business. However, if you pick the "Merchant" perk in the Speech skill tree, you can sell any item to any vendor (such as selling produce to a blacksmith, for example.)
  • The first two Lufia games have a store on Forfeit Island that let you buy back anything you've sold in any other shop in the world. And not only everything you've sold, but also anything you've fed to your pet monsters.
  • In the main Pokémon games before Pokémon X and Y, 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...
  • Shin Megami Tensei:
    • Most games are often particularly bad about this, since the store that sells EVERYTHING, up to and including voodoo-dolls, ancient coins and magical gems, is a pharmacy. And not a fantasy-ish pharmacy either, the modern-day kind where you'd go to get a refill for your aspirin. And, apparently, everything else you need for basic demon-hunting.
    • Persona 3 has Paulownia Mall, where there is a police officer who sells armour and weapons, such as guns, bows and swords, to the teenaged protagonist for a modest sum. The game encourages you not to think too much about the implications of a policeman with 'connections' handing over lethal weaponry to underage schoolchildren. He also has a bitchin' selection of maid costumes and swimsuits. The mall also has a pharmacy, but it only sells healing items — the voodoo dolls, magic gems, and whatnot come from the antique store next door, whose owner is versed in some interesting forms of magic (and only accepts precious stones as payment).
    • Justified in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. There isn't a "store" per se, but a materials laboratory aboard the Red Sprite that you take raw materials to, and then "spend" Macca (energy units used by demons as currency) to manufacture equipment. The lab thus becomes an item factory for nearly anything the protagonist could ever need. The reverse is also justified in this manner, because the lab can take the protagonist's items and dispose of the materials to salvage leftover Macca.
  • Inverted in X-COM, where you are the one who sells everything, from weapons and ammunition to spacecraft and tanks to alien corpses. Hilariously lampshaded in a fan fiction piece that notes how an underwater base (Terror from The Deep) that had to deal with Lobstermen frequently ordered higher-than-average amounts of butter. Go figure...
  • Subverted in Sam & Max (first and second seasons, at least.) At Bosco's Inconvenience, Sam asks for everything a convenience store would never have, and some things a convenience store should have, but none of it is available. However, Bosco always has in stock one arcanely useless item necessary to solving a puzzle later in the game, for an improbable sum that Sam will acquire by solving another puzzle. But in the final episode of season one, Sam asks Bosco for items that would've resolved the problems in all previous episodes, and it turns out Bosco has all of them! If only they'd asked sooner...
  • Besides the usual RPG fare We Sell Everything-ism, Tales of Symphonia has the Lezareno Company, which makes, sells, and does everything. Handcuffs, cologne, iron maidens, trick iron maidens, and more. In addition, it has a disaster-relief branch and is singularly responsible for the existence of its own city/resort, and that's just the stuff that gets mentioned over the course of the two games' stories.
  • Your shop in Recettear can stock whatever items you can get your hands on, from weapons and armor, to food, to insect traps, slime gel, books, statues, flooring, wallpaper... Gameplay mechanics actually enforce this.
  • Variously 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.
  • Fallout 3 has traveling merchants who specialize in various kinds of equipment, including one whose speciality is... miscellaneous junk. Anything in the game that isn't a weapon, piece of clothing or consumable, Crazy Wolfgang's your guy.
  • Invoked by Percy in Fallout4.
    "Don't know what you're looking for? We have everything!"
  • Averted in the X-Universe series. Factories will only sell their end product. Equipment docks, trade stations, and shipyards only sell the items on the stock list.
  • In The Sims Medieval, the Village Shoppe sells various types of food, weapons and equipment, but also sells some quest-specific items. Sometimes, some very weird quest-specific items too. Looking for crab perfume? Well, obviously the village shop has it! (They also buy everything, including pond scum.)
  • The merchant from Resident Evil 4 will sell you anything, but to unlock the really cool stuff you've gotta replay the game. A rocket launcher with unlimited ammunition? Got it. A laser cannon that'll melt the Big Bad when used on the lowest setting? No problem stranga'.
  • A Knight's Quest for Milk: 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".
  • In Hotline Miami, 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 New-Age Retro Hippie 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.
  • Campfire Cat Cafe & Snack Bar: The cafe is a very versatile place. Despite being called a "cafe," it's actually more like a restaurant that serves all sorts of high-class dishes from around the world. There are additional areas that you add onto the cafe to make it even more diverse:
    • First is the bakery, which seems like a natural choice for a cafe, although it also comes with a boat ride, of all things.
    • Next is the campgrounds, which has tents that guests can pay to sleep in, along with a hot tub. (It also has an "Expedition Lodge" where the player can dig for treasure, but it seems like this is only for the player, not for the customers.)

    Visual Novels 
  • Raging Loop: The convenience store outside of Yasumizu. As Haruaki keeps dying and looping back, he somehow always finds what he needs in the store for the next storyline, including snacks, alcohol, field rations, army flashlights, rock-climbing equipment, rubber dinghies for river rafting, several hundred metres of rope, or a bulletproof vest. The shopkeeper is eventually revealed to be a supernatural being and is literally pulling all of it out of hammerspace whenever she goes into the back room to get it.

    Web Animation 
  • Homestar Runner: 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 hobby kit with only dangerous items inside). Justified because he has the only shop within city limits, as far as the viewers know. And several other operations were based out of the concession stand at different times. Among other things it's also the source of Strong Bad's internet, served as both a veterinary clinic and an (illegal) hospital, the base of shady illegal dealings... in quality goods, and an insurance company.
  • Inanimate Insanity: If a character has some ridiculously crazy item, you can be sure they got it from Walmart, including items that would definitely not be found in the real life Walmart, like a time machine. OJ lampshades it.

    Web Comics 

    Western Animation 
  • Mega-Lo-Mart from King of the Hill.
  • The 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."
  • Buy n Large from WALL•E. Their stores could dwarf Idiocracy's version of Costco and their president is CEO of Earth. Heck, their website reveals that they bought the weather (with satellites controlling it) and the direction North (rebranded BnL North).
  • The characters on Kaeloo buy everything (from bazookas to Love Potion) at an online store (the name of the site is never revealed).
  • Orange Blossom runs one of these stores in the 2009 Strawberry Shortcake series.
  • The Stuff-Mart of VeggieTales.
  • The Wall2Wall-Mart from The Fairly OddParents! literally sells EVERYTHING, including military helicopters armed with computer-guided missile-launching systems. Justified by the setting; if kids can wish for anything, what do they do with the non-sentimental stuff when their godparents leave? Also, that world lacks common sense.
    Timmy: Aww, come on! Is there anything they don't sell here!?
  • All-in-One Mart, "the store big enough to swallow your town!", only appeared in one episode of Arthur, but the loudspeaker announcements make it clear that they sell everything from bizarre food items to army-surplus jet turbines (the announcer suggests they'd make good house fans).
  • Clerks: The Animated Series has Jay and Silent Bob enter this profession because they can't sell marijuana on a prime time network show. Typically the merchandise is of some extremely absurd and obscure nature pulled from the endless recesses of Silent Bob's coat. The pilot episode also introduces the Quicker Stop, which is called a convenience store but functions more like a mega-mall.
  • Kim Possible has Smartymart, which has everything from naked molerats to discount capri pants.
  • Johnny Bravo has the Dollar Three store, which not only sells everything but sells it for one dollar and three cents. Including komodo dragons.
  • One of the 1960s Popeye cartoons has a man who happens to find Popeye in the huge store turn to him and say, "Excuse me, sir, can you direct me to the exit? I've been trying to find it for sixteen years."
  • Phineas and Ferb
    • "Vanessassary Roughness" has the Super-Duper Megastore, the largest supplier of everything in the Tri-State Area. According to Phineas, it's 52,637,000 square acres in size, roughly the size of the state of Kansas.
    • "Tri-State Treasure: Boot Of Secrets" has the Swap Meet, which is demonstrated with a catchy song. While they're there, Phineas and Ferb team up with their dad to find an antique boot scraper supposedly lost to the mists of time and Candace goes through a Chain of Deals to try and get a rare Ducky Momo collectible.
  • Quest Buy from Star vs. the Forces of Evil is a transdimensional mall that stocks anything anyone from any dimension might want or need. Good luck finding a specific item, though.
  • Workit Out Wombats has the Everything Emporium, which sells anything from clothing to food to office supplies to toys.

    Real Life 
  • 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."
    • Except they do sell coffins, though only through their online platform.
    • And wedding gowns! Costco is the place you want to be when there's a Zombie Apocalypse. Or, at least costco.com (assuming the internet still works).
    • Annnnnnddd they have member-only referrals to car-buying, home-buying, and build-to-suit services too. So yeah…
    • Textbooks not being sold there is also debatable.
  • Big-chain superstores such as Walmart, Target (US or Australia; the two are completely separate companies) or Tesco often fall under this. A memorable cartoon in Private Eye showed anti-Tesco protestors buying their "No to Tesco" protest signs and T-shirts...from Tesco, while remarking "They really do sell everything!"
  • A lot of real-world Dollar Stores seem to take a We Sell Everything Crappy approach.
  • 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 EarthBound example slightly more Truth in Television. 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 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.
  • A lot of college bookstores in the United States typically also sell apparel for that college's sports teams, school supplies, and other common items such as what you'd also find in a convenience store as a service to resident students.
  • In Japan, otherwise purely electronics stores also sell ties and umbrellas. In Japan, Britain and probably many other places, it's common for every shop to suddenly start selling umbrellas and furry hats as soon as it starts raining or snowing heavily, simply because they know people will run in to the nearest door and buy them.
  • You'd be surprised what you can find in ethnic stores, especially those Asian supermarkets, like Super 88.
  • 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?" They actually sold lions once.
  • 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.
  • eBay
    • This is an online version of this trope. After a bit of searching, you start to realize that there is someone on Earth selling the most random crap. Selling human beings, weapons, and anything that simply cannot be sold legally is out. Beyond that... It gets weird. Hatching eggs are salable... go on, bid on some Rhode Island Reds, they get FedExed to you, and you put them in the incubator and they hatch in a suitable time frame.
    • 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— 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.
    • While you can't sell living beings, there was this one guy who actually sold advertising space on his own body in the form of tattoos.
    • Where on earth (or the moon) did they get their hands on a lunar lander? Well maybe an eBayer has yet to sell a lunar lander, but the sale of a titanium fuel tank from the command module of Apollo 18 begs a similar question.
    • Even the things that actually can't be sold, people still try regularly; the auctions just get yanked. There are recorded instances of people trying to sell organs, souls, themselves...
    • 100 kilograms of pure cocaine. The auction, landing at something like 5000 US dollars, was deleted after 18 hours.
    • And weirder, a man actually MANAGED to sell his house, his wife and his two children but for what price is unknown. Apparently the Admins overlooked that auction. Hell, forget houses, sometimes people auction off entire TOWNS. And once someone once tried to sell New Zealand. Yes, the whole country of New Zealand.
    • In July 2015 one student at the University of Akron in 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!
    • 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. And 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 sinfulnote , many of them relics are derived from human remains, which cannot be sold on the site.
  • Soon after the Mall of America opened in the Twin Cities, 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 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.
  • Small towns in general typically have stores that sell a wide variety of things because there aren't enough people in town to specialise.
  • Ikea — as Jonathan Coulton puts it, "Everything for your home, and if you don't have a home, you can buy one there..."
  • 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.
  • OLX is a different kind of online example with many local versions, where people from all over the country can put up anything they don't want for sale. Chances are, if you're looking for something, someone's most likely selling it. You can even find jobs there. It is very popular in countries such as Portugal.
  • Shoppers Drug Mart is Canada's largest drugstore chain. It sells 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.
  • There are still towns off the beaten path where the municipal market fills this role. Sure, fruits and vegetables of all kinds are to be expected, but toiletries? Used cell phones? Horse fodder?
  • 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.

Alternative Title(s): Juxtaposed Store, Some Guys Store Of Random Objects And Unrelated Services

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