I mean, think about it. No other stores sell potions. Sure, you can get other items from other stores, but potions and pokeballs? No luck, other than just finding them lying around somewhere. And they don't have a specific brand across regions or anything- they're always just called Poké Marts.

And it is implied to be a brand. They're all supplied (and implied to be owned) by Silph Co and the Devon Corporation (which could signify they're actually different brands, but that would still mean they're region wide monopolies, or could just have different suppliers across regions)

At least in the real world, we have other convenience stores. If I want to get say, a bottle of water, I could get that at a 7-Eleven (we don't have 7 elevens where I live but that's irrelevant). However, if I don't feel like going to 7 Eleven, I could easily walk down to the nearest Tesco Express and get that same bottle of water for a slightly different price.

Pokémarts are like if I could only get bottles of water at a 7 Eleven, and all competitors that could also have bottles of water don't exist or there's so few of them that they don't matter.

Clearly there is something going on here we don't know about, and Silph Co has some explaining to do.

my thoughts for those interested for some reason:

i've heard of these two shows a lot from my mutuals and all over tumblr, and both of them have piqued my interest exponentially so

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