Pluralization Of Brand Names
 

Is it me or is it a trend of the British as a whole?? I have had many visitors from the UK since I have been in the US and there seems to be a trend of turning brand names into their plural, these are often bricks and mortar companies but more significantly I refer to grocery stores, a few examples are....

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What I don't get is that everything has an "s" on the end, the company names are actually Safeway, Asda and Tesco, why the "s"?

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They are using a possessive, not a plural.

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Really? I don't here that in the US when talking with people. Everyone would say "I'm going to Safeway to buy some chicken", "The meat at Asda seemed bad" or "Tesco had the best selection of pasta".

Maybe I should look up possessive nouns some more, that is not something that I had considered.

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Also, that doesn't seem to cover the following...

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Just imagine the word 'store' after each name. Therefore it would be "Let's go to Asda's store and get some dinner".

The last one should be "Safeway's HAS the best chicken (singular, not plural).

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Theirs never, a grammer Nazi around when you need one.;)

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Or a spelling nazi 😉

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I'm sorry, no one would ever say "Let's go to Asda's store and get some dinner".

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I'd suggest you only talk to Brits who shop at Trader Joes

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That is exactly what people are saying when they say "let's go to Asda's and get some dinner". It's an abbreviation using a possessive.

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Rather than try and guess what unknown folks may be thinking when they purportedly use these 'pluralizations', I have to say that I have never heard anyone use any of them.

Simply that.

Tesco has always been Tesco, except when using the possessive. Ditto other stores. Except Morrisons, which of course does have the 's' at the end!

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In my experience, folks in the US use it pretty frequently. Anyone remember the former store, Ames? People would say "I'm going to Ames's." (Pronounced, Ames-is). I certainly say "Walmart's" and most other people in these parts do too...

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Lol... Trader Joe's is their brand name and Morrisons is the same. I just don't understand putting an "S" on the end of a brand name of a grocery store. Grammatically Asda's might fly, but when considered in the same light with Morissons you wouldn't say "Morrisons's", neither would you say "Trader Joe's's"

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Locally we had Trader Joe's, Ralph's, Vons and Albertson's.

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Publix are just messing with us.:lol: