What do residents actually use it for?
Occasional durable goods and last-minute essentials. The pattern differs sharply by building type, which is why a fixed catalogue is the wrong approach.
Two clusters, consistently. Things people need occasionally and resent owning, and things people run out of at inconvenient hours.
The occasional durables
Vacuums, steam cleaners, drills, ladders, folding chairs, projectors, games consoles, luggage, garment steamers. The common thread is that each is used a handful of times a year, costs real money, and takes up storage for the other three hundred and sixty days. A household buying its own is making a poor trade that everyone makes anyway because there is no alternative.
The last-minute essentials
Detergent, dishwasher tablets, batteries, chargers, toiletries, coffee, snacks, cold drinks. Bought rather than borrowed, and overwhelmingly at hours when the nearest shop is shut.
It differs by building more than people expect
More on this in the amenities residents actually use, which covers why the pattern settles where it does.
Student housing skews hard toward printing, cleaning equipment and entertainment. Workplaces toward chargers, cables and the small things that rescue a meeting. Hotels toward the item a guest forgot to pack. Long-stay residential is the broadest mix and the most seasonal.
Which is why the selection should not be fixed
A catalogue chosen on opening day reflects a guess about who lives there. What they reach for, what they reserve and never collect, and what they ask for and cannot find are all countable, and the mix should follow them.
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