Meanings
- not comparablemanagementDescribing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another.
a one-stop home design center
2 more examples
At a local microlevel 'one-stop' or 'one-window' service delivery arrangements have proved popular.
2004, Christopher Pollitt with Geert Bouckaert, Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis, page 85Features like storefronts for brands could be understood as attempts by TikTok to catch up to Instagram’s own recent attempts at becoming a one-stop shopping destination.
2021 October 2, John Herrman, “Will TikTok Make You Buy It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2022
plural one-stops
- A wholesaler serving the music industry.
Independent R&B music retailers around the country are banding together into coalitions, seeking to create the buying power of a chain and get increased attention and service from labels and one-stops.
1994, Billboard, volume 106, number 22, page 45
Origin
Generalization of one-stop shop.
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