History Main / WeSellEverything

Sometimes, the stuff for sale there shatters the bound of all logic--[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing where on earth (or the moon) did they get their hands on a]] ''[[AnInteriorDecoratorIsYou 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, [[Film/JamesBond Q-like]] proprietor who is quick to suggest all manner of goods to his or her customers. If [[MegaCorp the shop is enormous]], [[WesternAnimation/WallE expect to need a map just to find your way to the microwave popcorn]].

* 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 objects is very easy.

* The store Absolutely Everything from ''FanFic/FalloutEquestria''. 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.

* The 80's Anglo-American sketch-comedy ''Series/AssaultedNuts'' did a bit set in a small dingy shop whose owner (played by Wayne Knight of later Series/{{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.

* "Series/GreenAcres" has [[Main/ConMan Mr. Haney]], who always conveniently had whatever Oliver needed for his farm. The products were inevitably of [[Main/VeryFalseAdvertising very poor quality or totally inappropriate for what was needed]].

* In Series/TrialAndError, the frozen yogurt shop in East Peck is also the local forgery store.

* In [=RPGs=] like ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' and ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', it's common to have a weapon store, an armor store, and an Everything Else store, selling food, healing items, traveling items, [[GottaCatchThemAll collectible items]]... and occasionally weapons and armor too. ''VideoGame/{{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'''.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'':

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

* Subverted in ''Videogame/SamAndMax'' (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 WeSellEverything-ism, ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' 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 ''Videogame/{{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 ''[[EnforcedTrope enforce]]'' this.

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

* ''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".

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': ''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 [[MyLittlePanzer hobby kit]] with only dangerous items inside). [[JustifiedTrope 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.

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* Mentioned frequently in ''WebComic/GoldCoinComics''

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

* 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''.