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>>19327067
All stores, actually.

What was the point in naming baker's shops if all of them were state-owned, and all of them generally had (or didn't have, as the joke goes), say, the same four types of bread from the same factories? “Bakery. Confectionery. Café”, it's pretty simple.

Western people, just as most young people in post-Soviet countries, can't even imagine the absolute minimum selection of goods in Soviet stores, and that not all societies are by default consumer-oriented.