Sure you do. It's called a store specific card. Or a voucher. Same net effect. You are paying them money ahead of time without taking anything immediately.
Your bread only comparison is still flawed, it's always going to be in some way, as the product in question is very different. To pay for bread specifically and then pick it up later involves a physical inefficiency, there is an incentive not to do it, as that would create extra effort on the part of the person, instead of a benefit. And I mean of course some things don't make sense pre purchasing, there must be more benefit then penalty to do so, that's just common sense. Even if such a benefit is as tiny as a simple question of convenience: ah yea sure i'll pre order this game now so that it will pre load to be playable at hour 0. (if you are going to buy it anyway)
If you want a more immediate example we pay for food (like a bread sandwich) to be delivered to us at some time in the future, the difference is that that future point is more immediate, but in effects it's just a smaller time frame, you still pay money for a guarantee of something later, the food might not get delivered by accident, or it might taste bad. Plus people pay for a continuous supply of certain items online for example, you pay in bulk ahead of time, then stuff gets sent to you on a regular basis, you don't get most of (if any) of the goods initially.
If you want to call tickets services go ahead but that's going into semantics, which I will argue is pointless, you paid money for something to be available to you later, that's the point. Fuck, people pay my company money to incorporate and provide them with corporate documents which don't exist yet, we send them a physical complete package about a month down the line, of an item that does not exist yet when they pay. There are really countless examples, not just the stuff I mentioned, we as a society pay money for something from which we have no immediate effect or benefit on a constant basis, simply on a promise/guarantee that something will be given to us later.
Edit: PS: In fact the promise/guarantee of tangible goods somewhere down the line is very basis of our entire economic system. Without it even modern currency wouldn't exist.
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