Categorization Overview
Both the Snowdrop Top Merchant database and Google Places provide a Category for each entry in the database.
The terminology used by Google is Google Places Types.
These are referred to in MRS as Detail Level Categories.
Example categories include:
bakery, restaurant, supermarket, hardware_store, beauty_salon, etc.
In total there are more than 100 different Detail Level Categories.
A complete list is available from the API specification.
A merchant can be assigned more than one detail level category.
A large number of categories can be difficult for the typical consumer to manage.
These detail level categories can be grouped together into higher level custom categories.
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