My apologies. Yes, it did do that. The overall point is that you have to be there in person to judge quality - there was no advice for how to do it with internet sales.
The rest of my reply was, as they say, me being triggered.
Postal based sales (mediated by a web interface or whatever) would be a problem of evaluating the quality of domestic (presumably higher quality) goods.
The now antiquated in-person retail outlet allowed you to inspect the goods before you purchased.
Now we just hope some AI summary of reviews and a "star system" will provide us quality goods....?