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Здесь можно купить любые продукты, потому что открыты все магазины.

Здесь можно купить любые продукты, потому что открыты все магазины.
Here one can buy any products, because all stores are open.
From Lesson 227:The free-choice pronoun any (любой)·Russian

Questions & Answers about Здесь можно купить любые продукты, потому что открыты все магазины.

Why do we use любые here instead of все?
Любые means "any" in the sense of a free choice: you can choose whichever products you want. If the sentence used все продукты, it would mean you can buy all the products (implying you are buying the stores' entire stock).
Why does the second half of the sentence use все магазины rather than любые магазины?
Все means "all" or "the entirety of". The reason you have so much choice is that all of the stores (the whole group) are currently operating. If it said открыты любые магазины, it would mean "whichever stores you choose are open," which doesn't make logical sense as the cause in this context.
What case is любые продукты, and why does it look like the dictionary form?
It is in the accusative case because it is the direct object of the verb купить (to buy). For plural inanimate nouns like продукты (groceries/products) and their matching modifiers like любые, the accusative form is identical to the nominative.
Why is the word for "open" written as открыты and not открытые?
Открыты is a short-form adjective. In Russian, short forms are frequently used to describe a state or result when they act as the main descriptive word (the predicate) in a sentence. Since it describes the plural subject все магазины, it takes the plural short ending -ы.

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