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A customer in a store is hesitating which of the two items to buy. A shop
assistant or a friend encourages him:「どっちも買っちゃいましょう」.

Could this mean "You should buy both"? Could this mean "You should buy
either"?

To clearly say "You should buy either", how should this be reworded?

Thanks!
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どっちも meaning: both vs either
If the customer's friend were to encourage him to buy both using the word どっち,
it would be

> どっちも買ったら？

どっちも does not mean either. For that you need to use どっちか. In this situation,
the sentence would be something like

> どっちか買った方がいいよ。

(As an aside, no store clerk I have ever met would say such a thing. And I
don't mean because of the casualness of どっち. I don't think that kind of
presumptuousness would go over well. But who knows? Times are changing. Maybe
some チャラい guy in Harajuku would say something like that.)
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