It's Tesco not Tescos!

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Anyone else find it annoying when people add an 'S' on the end of shop names that don't have an 'S' on the end of them? Or AIBU?

You and Yours presenter on R4 just now called Tesco "Tescos". I can normally hear it without feeling the need to rant on AIBU but hearing it from a R4 presenter has broken the camel's back!

Bit of a 1st world issue there - it doesn't matter, have some

Surely they just use Tesco's as in Tesco's (shop)?

I agree with you OP.

And people that say Asda's?? WTAF?

It's a four letter word that they can't pronounce!

It's The Asda in Liverpool

I refer to said shop as Tesco's emporium. I expect that's what the nice R4 person meant.

It depends.

Saying ' Tesco's wine is good value' is fine.

But so is 'I'm going to Tesco's... The shop belonging to Tesco.

It's a comfortable usage, no harm is done.

The 's is showing posession.The supermarket belongs to Tesco so it is Tesco's .it is the same as saying 'I am just popping as round to Mum's'

Feels weird to say 'just popping to Tesco' .. so I say 'just popping to Tescos'. I know it's not actually called Tescos though.. maybe I'm just common .

I'd say "I'm going to Tesco's" same as "I'm going to Gloria's" but "I shop at Tesco" same as "I climb mountains in Scotland"

The plural is Tesci.

Hmm. I'm a real pedant, but even I can't get worked up about this one. It's pretty common - Marks and Spencer's, Sainsbury's etc. It's a shop belonging to the company of that name. Hence the unnecessary but perhaps forgivable use of a possessive. Not much of a stretch to see how this came from referring Mr Brown's shop in the village to 'Brown's', surely.

I'm off to my mum's for a bit

I'll be popping in to my local Wetherspoon's

I'm going to Tesco's

Works for me. And I'm a pedant.

who even cares?

tiggy

I always say Tescos and Asdas. I do it on purpose. Even though I know it to be incorrect. I dont give a fuck.

Don't use Tesco but everyone says Tasda here.

I call it Texacos so I'm a disgrace too

This winds DP up as well. We've taken to saying 'Morrison' as weird way of equalising. Oh, and his step-gran calls Aldi 'Oldies' which we've taken up too. Hohoho.

I am quite flighty on this; my theory is that we automatically correct to what we naturally think sounds best. I go to Asda, that nice cheese I bought is Asda's own... I might nip to Tesco OR Tescos and anything own brand is from Tescos to avoid running the o sounds together.

I do have a friend who always says "Waitroses" though and it is really jarring to hear. So wrong! And he drops the T in the middle. It sounds bizarre and I can't say anything without looking snooty. But it's so wrong!! Arrrghhh!!!

Never considered it because I was too busy having a life

YANBU, this really irritates me.

I always say it, just to annoy people.

TESCOS

I'm with Brahms.
Who the fuck has the time to think (or care) about this?!

YANBU. It annoys me as well. Sainsbury's and Morrison's are appropriate because they are a person's name. But ASDA and Tesco are not a person's name. It is not appropriate to use the possessive in that case.

For example, you wouldn't say, "I'm going to Primark's (shop)" although according to some in this thread that is correct???

Also I point out that nobody EVER says "Waitroses." Saying Tesco's or Aldi's is simply incorrect grammar that has snuck into everyday language.