Editing Convenience store (section)

===Germany===
[[File:Spätkauf in Berlin-Kreuzberg.jpg|thumb|A [[Spätkauf|Späti]] in [[Kreuzberg|Berlin-Kreuzberg]]]]
[[Berlin]]ers lovingly refer to the small neighbourhood shops with late opening times found throughout the city (often operated by families with immigrant roots, akin to France) as ''Späti'' (translating to "Lat(e)y", derived from ''[[Spätkauf]]'', "late purchase").
 
In [[North Rhine-Westphalia|North Rhine-Westfalia]] people call the same kind of shop either ''[[Kiosk]]'', like the Finnish, (using the word in a way differing from the rest of Germany, where "Kiosk" usually means only stall-like buildings or other very small window-selling shops which are not entered by customers and which sell either newspapers and magazines or snacks and cigarettes, or a combination of these, but no household goods) or ''Trinkhalle'' ("drinking hall"), although they are not pubs, as the name might suggest.

A name used for market stalls and also in some regions for little shops is ''Büdchen'' (from ''Bude'', "stall, hut, room"); where no special local name for them exists, often just the equivalents of "small shop" or "corner shop" are used ("der kleine Laden/ das [[Diminutive|Lädchen]]/ das Lädchen an der Ecke").

Snack shops integrated into petrol stations can also have long opening hours, but in contrast to the neighbourhood ''Späti''-type shops, petrol station shops nowadays are usually part of large retail chains.
[[File:Fotothek df roe-neg 0006456 017 Kundin beim Einkauf.jpg|thumb|A typical "Tante Emma" working in a shop, 1953]]
"{{Interlanguage link|Tante-Emma-Laden|de}}" (aunt-Emma-shop) is used as a nostalgic term for old-fashioned [[general store]]s (typically family owned), the historic predecessors of modern discounters and supermarkets which they were replaced by (similar to [[mom-and-pop]] stores).<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 May 2017 |title=Untranslatable German Words: Tante-Emma-Laden |url=https://blogs.transparent.com/german/untranslatable-german-words-tante-emma-laden/ |access-date=26 August 2023 |website=German Language Blog {{!}} Language and Culture of the German-Speaking World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tante-Emma-Laden – DW – 09/23/2011 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/tante-emma-laden/a-6614060 |access-date=26 August 2023 |website=dw.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=karenanne |date=10 January 2018 |title=What is a Tante Emma Laden? A Corner Store with a Special History |url=https://germangirlinamerica.com/what-is-a-tante-emma-laden/ |access-date=26 August 2023 |website=A German Girl in America |language=en-US}}</ref>