Why do people say "Tesco's"?

[mrsnorrismeow]

Just that really. People seem to do it all the time. But it's not "Lidl's" or "Aldi's" or "Waitrose's", is it?!?!

There's often also a 'the' added in for good measure - "I'm going to the Asda's" !

Tesco was originally named partially after the founder, Jack Cohen, who came up with the name by including the first two letters of his surname. Therefore, if he'd just called it J Cohen Ltd, nobody would think it remotely weird referring to it 'Jack Cohen's', just like they do with J Sainsbury.

I don't think the shops themselves care how people amend their names to familiarise them, as long as they keep spending, and will often go with the flow and start using them themselves. McDonald's soemtimes call themselves 'Macky D's' on TV adverts and Wilkinson's only ever seem to refer to themselves as Wilko nowadays.

@mrsnorrismeow

But "Sainsbury's" is actually called Sainsbury's, not Sainsbury. That's what the sign outside is. Whereas the sign outside Tesco is Tesco, not Tesco's!!

I didn't notice that, I was thinking of it as J Sainsbury, I didn't realise they had become Sainsburys. Also Morrisons 🤯

X-posted with a million others there!

@mrsnorrismeow

Marks and Spencer's is fine, I don't know why but it is.

Because it was started by people called Marks and Spencer so it is Marks and Spencer's

I say Budg budg ( budgens)
Marks sparks

I think it suggests ownership but only a suggestion - itms

I say I'm going to mums's to my dh - my mother's House

Tesco's - the Tesco store

😊

Mor mor ( Morrison’s)

I believe Wilkinson changed their name/branding precisely because of the tendency of people to abbreviate shop names, and theirs was so widely nicknamed 'Wilko'.
Fun fact - a branch of 'Wilkinson' can be seen in 'Brief Encounter' although I suspect Celia Johnson didn't nip in for some pick 'n' mix and a masonry drill bit.

In parts of the south west it's Asdal instead of Asda's, which at least stops the plural confusion.

Pronounced like Ah-stall

Showing my age here but ASDA is an acronym of 'Associated Dairies' so to me it is the associated dairy's shop.

I found it strange when my scouse boss used to call it 'the ASDA', as if it were the only one.

Wow! Some people really don’t have anything to think about do they? 🥴

It’s just easier to say, that’s all

We call the Co-op....Coops (family joke).

Wow! Some people really don’t have anything to think about do they

God I have loads to think about. Was just an idle musing 🤷‍♀️

“...where you buy your best clothes”
Nah nah nah nahhhhhh

When I moved to where I live now, I couldn't understand what people meant when they said they were going to the kwop!

I finally figured out that they were going to the co-op.

I think it’s easier to say. It’s kind of harder to make the stop at the end of the ‘o’ on Tesco’s than it is to just let it slide into an s at the end. You kind of have to make a stop with you throat which feels kind of unnatural at the end of the ‘o’ but adding the ‘s’ lets your mouth go back to its normal resting position.

Whereas co-op has the p at the end which serves the same function as adding an s to Tesco

@CatSmith

Wow! Some people really don’t have anything to think about do they? 🥴

How ridiculous do you sound! Coming on to a chat forum to criticise people for chatting.

If anyone asks you anything that's not about the hard border or Chekhov do you turn on your heel and storm away muttering 'heathens' under your breath.

10 out of 10 is how ridiculous you sound.

It's Asdawl if you're from Bristol.

The Asda and Marksies are a Scouse thing I think.

Marks (and Spencer) and Sainsbury's and Morrison's totally fine as they are branded as such, though Marks seems to be M&S mostly these days.

I am irrationally annoyed by Tesco's. I always make a point of saying Tesco.
People round here definitely say Tesco's but just Asda. Never herad Asda's.

A similar one is hairdresser's, optician's, doctor's. Can't bear it. Personally I go to the hairdresser, the optician, the doctor. Does anyone else?

really shocked by Asdall in the SW. Where does the L come from? Or is it purely an accent thing?

Because they do,

I always say Tesco's and Lidl's and Aldi's. Most people I know do too.
Think it's a regional thing.

My mother used to call Argos, Argo's