asdaS, tescoS, etc

[joko]

why do some people add an s to these names?

the name of the shop is asda, tesco, etc ...we dont say pradas or primarks....

i dont understand

thanks

[NazNomad]

Maybe they assume the store belongs to Mr. Tesco or Mr. Asda, much in the same way their granny used to pop to the butcher's shop?

[NazNomad]

Smith's would be acceptable, I would think.

[Invictas]

Isn't it annoying(I don't know just why) but a friend of mine despite being told time and time again keeps saying Cliff RichardS!
Mind you if she likes Cliff Richard perhaps she is touched already! LOL

[joko]

maybe you have a point there naz...its possibly an old fashioned thing, when most shops were named after their owner...so it was howells, or johnsons, or sainsburys etc

[cupid04]

Nobody says waitroses do they?

[joko]

exactly cupid

[oranger]

Or co-ops

[joko]

maybe its similar to the old fashioned way olde rpeople say chinee...to mean chinese...because they thought a chinese person was a chinee and the word was chinee's

maybe some think that its actually waitro...

[joko]

although thinking about it, i expect some people do say waitroses...

[lankeela]

I do say Tescos but not Asdas.

[Count-A-Strong]

The countess always adds an S despite me taking the p for the last 20 years.

[dotty.]

I says asdas because it;s there shop I'm going to, like if I was going to Mr Smiths butchers I would say I am going to Mr Smiths not I am going to Mr Smith, we say Boots because Mr Boot ownes it, we say Marks and Spencers because Mr Spencer was Mr Mark's partner, we say Harrods because Mr Harrod started it.
Anything we don't add a personal 's' to is rare, I say I am going to the Chemist but in my daughters village they call it Lloyds but that's because it is Lloyds chemist.
I used to work for Howellls Dingles and Jollys stores BYW.

[dotty.]

tut *their. (just got up)

[ummmm]

Ian...I also call it Tescos...but call it Asda...

Don't know why..

[mike11111]

Nothing wrong with saying, "I'm going to the chemist's"; the word 'shop' is understood, just as in bucher's.

[annie0000]

My son was in nursery school when he pulled the nursery teacher up for saying Tescos - he pointed out to her that there was no "S" on the end. As she told us, "I went and looked and you know he's right!!!!" Lessons from a 4 year old.

[hc4361]

If you are going to the house of your friend Gary, you don't say "I'm going to Gary'.

You would say "I'm going to cook / wash up / paint".

Or "I'm going to the supermarket".

It's just a shortened way of saying "I'm going to Tesco's supermarket".

[joko]

yes dot but all your example are actually named that...their signs have an S on it...

the store is called asda.

there is no mr asda or mr tesco etc...those shops have an s because it shows on on their sign...mr smiths butchers, mrs slocombes flowers, mr johnsons cleaners, or just millets,

you dont say ikeas or bhss or poundlands, or whatever...


there is nothing wrong with it exactly... i dont really care...but it is not 'correct' and i just wondered why some people did it...

[dotty.]

because we can joko