to get really annoyed with people who call Tesco "Tescos'?

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This really annoys me. It's not called Tescos, it's just Tesco. You wouldn't say Asdas or Lidls or Aldis (sorry about the choice of supermarket examples, only ones that don't actually have an 's' on the end). Does anyone else get cross when their friends say they're "just going to Tescos"? I know there are more important things to worry about, but why would you call it that when it isn't called that?

I have never had cause to say the H word or visit the H shop, getorf. Horrible common little place.

I thought they were J Sainsbury plc

Oh god Mataland. Loads of people do that, what's the matter with them!

YABU. It's completely logical to add a possessive s IMO. You do it for Sainsbury's and Marks and Spencer's (ie it is the shop belonging to Mr Sainsbury). You also go to the doctor's and the dentist's and the greengrocer's (at least before Tesco put paid to that) and the dry cleaner's, so why not Tesco's? Even though there isn't a Mr or Ms Tesco (I believe the name comes in part from its founder thoug, a Mr Cohen), it is still the shop belonging to the Tesco organisation, so for me it makes sense.

A bit off topic but my mum refers to DS's toy as "Thomas the Tank..."
"Engine" would obviously finish her off
I think I am guilty of everything on this thread

Does my head in too! Its Tesco!! But then round our way we do tend to say Maccie Deez, rather than Mcdonalds so i guess its horses for courses

I go with how the company have it - so Sainsbury's is called Sainsbury's on their website, Marks & Spencer is just that, as is Tesco.....

So should it be Marks and Spark then tigerbear? .

for some reason my friend calls the kitchen the 'kickshen'
as i have known her almost 20 years i feel i've left it too late to ask her why!

I say Tesco's but I always mentally picture the apostrophe.

Is that good enough?

I call it Tescos and Asdas and Lidls. I'm not sure why.

Midnight - ey?
Just went on their site, which is Marks & Spencer, then they call it M&S, which I also use.

I used to work with a woman who said

"demin" for denim

"Aprile" like while for April

and

Arsheetect for Architect (when we worked for one)

ROFL at colleague of Bunny!

LOL who cares really, I say Tescos, aldis, lidls sainsburys (well I don't say that much as we don't have one), but

asda is asda, and spar is spar. Comet is comet but dixons is dixons

Lifes to short to wonder why.

I call the co-op coop, but only to DH

Some people do say "Lidls", believe it or not.

Nobody says "Waitroses" do they? Must be a class thing...

My mother also calls shops by the name the store used to be known by in the 70s before it was taken over by Army & Navy/ John Lewis, etc.

We do it for a joke with some shops though. Morrisons is Mozzirons and do on.

Tesco is named after Tessie Cohen, Mr Cohen's wife. So why shouldn't it be Tesco's?

A quick search confirms that yes,some people do say Waitroses.

YABU
I say I am going to Tescos but if DH says 'where did you get the fish from?' I would reply 'Tesco' not Tescos. i agree with midnightexpress and the possessive.
However I do say Markies and that is definitely a Scottish thing as no one round here says that. Have to disagree with the Dundonian mother, nothing wrong with it IMO.

And none of it is worth getting your knickers in a twist about.

Trivial Pursuits anyone?

Finally (must get on with work), if you're going to get upset about anything, I would draw your attention to Barclays (founded by Mr Barclay) and Morrisons (presumably founded by Mr Morrison) and the absence of apostrophes in their names.

Is it just a supermarket thing?

You don't tend to hear it with high street chains: HMVs, Virgins, Bootses (?), River Islands, Top Shops, Nexts...

(Although... Woolworth's...)

And you certainly don't hear Bradford and Bingleys, HSBCs, Halifaxes etc.

I think it's to do with it being related to the (original) owner, UQD, no? So I think you do sometimes hear Bootses (Because, like Barclays and Morrisons, Boots was originally Boot's (founder John Boot, I believe) and has mislaid its apostrophe somewhere, confusing the great British people and their already slim grip of what an apostrophe is for.

Maybe that's right...