Update: "retail.gas_stations.pump" to use "Fuel Dispenser" about venue-taxonomy

[jayshao]

This seems challenging from a compatibility perspective due to the "string value" being presumably machine-readable.

I think all current implementations actually use the IDs... if we were able to survey enough people I wonder if we could deprecate the "String Value" to allow for internationalization and future re-wording (as long as the semantics aren't changed, which I think would be the case in this case)

If that were the case, I think we could just change the description name - which would probably be fine

[christiancollins11]

Agreed. Vistar makes no use of the "string value" in integrations and would support deprecating.

[ndbabb]

Agree and support deprecating string values as well.

[mowasfi7]

Agree. Verizon Media uses IDs rather than string values.

[mercurim]

-1, can shed more light when I receive confirmation, but some DSPs consume string. I am in the process of getting them to look at the repo. There are use cases within Samsung where this value is needed.

[bruno8g]

Agreed to deprecate string values.

[jayshao]

@mercurim I think that if that's the case, if we "deprecate" that gives us the flexibility to not keep the strings in sync with the descriptions - or to announce some multiple release-cycle period when they might be removed (e.g. deprecated in 1.1, removed in... 1.3 or 1.4 towards the end of the year)

My worry is - with the strings, we will increasingly be caught in a case where the strings cannot match the descriptions if they change (or we have to have a lot of churn with deprecating and replacing categories) which I think makes them limited utility as we go forward.

[jayshao]

Did a simple edit w/o changing the strings... though I wonder if we might want to add some guidance... somewhere around whether the location is "primarily" a gas station that also has an attached convenience store... or primarily a convenience store that also sells gas. Perhaps a test/guidance based on where the majority of the revenue comes from?