I'd like to see the Stores page have another column added that shows the number of lots a store is selling. This number would not include empty lots or lots that aren't for sale. I believe this would be a good and useful feature because it would show buyers how much variety stores have. Relying on only the quantity of parts to find a store to buy from can frequently be frustrating because some stores may have 100,000's of parts but not much variety because they have 100's or 1,000's of pieces in every lot.
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I generally find stores by browsing the catalog or through wishlists. The store list doesn't seem like a great starting point, I didn't think people were using it that way.
There are issues no matter what we do. For example, sorting by number of parts: some sellers have 1,000's of Technic pins or other small cheap common parts that artificially make them look like big sellers on the list.
To speed up finding good stores, I would rather repeat my suggestion from an year ago... When clicking on a wishlist to see all matching lots in a store, don't show just the price for each lot, also show the total quantity without having to click "Add to Cart"!
It would all be so much easier if I could figure out if a store has stuff I want in a quick glance over the wishlist results. I'm not sure why @Lawrence doesn't like the idea, it seems rather obvious to me.