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The Idea of a Store in a Hotel

The ancient babylonians had relatively small huts, and they couldn't store massive piles of toilet paper in their huts. So that what they did was, thay created a system of stores where they would, you know, go to the store whan they needed some toilet paper, and then they would come back with a roll of toilet paper. And the store, literally, the word store means they are storing that stuff. It is there in the name. The innovation of the big box stores like, like cosco was to enlarge part out sorce that storage function to the consumer.

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