Kmart's or Kmart?

[ScreamingMeemie]

Poll question: Kmart's or Kmart?

Growing up in Wisconsin, it was Kmart. It was kind of a culture shock moving to Michigan and hearing stores referred to in the plural. In SE MI it's Kmart's, Kroger's, WalMart's...and this after having to get used to pop instead of soda. Sigh....

So what do you call it?

[GOPisEvil]

1. Out of business.

Down here, anyway. :-)

I noticed my dad's family in southern IL called stores plurals as well. I always thought it was sort of odd, too.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. The one by us went out, but there are still a gajillion around these

parts. Too many. :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

11. We have too many Wal-Marts.

:puke:

Although...we do have 2 Costcos! :thumbsup:

I got a good deal on a stereo thingie at the K-Mart here before it closed. I think I bought it at 40% off.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. We have a WalMart around 4 miles away, but I live in fear that one

is moving into the old Sam's club building at the end of the street I live off of. Yick!

[GOPisEvil]

23. I can't count the number of Wal-Marts in this town.

And they want to move from 3 stores and build 3 bigger stores to replace them. Over our aquifer recharge zone! A million times no!

Ugh. Wal-Mart: ptooey! :P

[shimmergal]

51. Some stores' official names _are_ the plural.

For example, Dillard's. It's in their ads, on their bags; nobody ever calls them Dillard.

Also Sears, except that's not a possessive.

[eyesroll]

2. I answered Kmart, being a Wisconsinite and all...

You did forget one variation: the Kmart.
"I'm heading down to the Kmart."
I'm not sure where that falls, geographically.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Updated just for you!

:hi:

[eyesroll]

6. I'm honored!

:-)

[hippiechick]

3. YES YES YES !!!!

I grew up in Green Bay, and to come to Indy and hear

"Krogers"
"Meijers"
"Cubs"

or whatever drives me insane !!!


Thank you for letting me know it's not just me !!!!!

:hippie:

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. It's not just you. It still grates on me...and ---horrors--- now my kids

say it like that. :(

[kmla]

18. You know what else drives me nuts?

Here in Indy, some people refer to Eli Lilly & Co. (the pharmaceutical co.) as "Lilly's". For example...

"... and then my neighbor got hired at Lilly's."

Drives me nuts.

[Bertha Venation]

4. other than that it reminds me of Grandma --

crap.

But I did use it as a fabulous implement of torture against a psychotic lover. We went there frequently -- don't remember why -- and I always tried to talk her in to having a meal in the cafeteria. She would practically run out of the store to avoid it.

I haven't thought of that in a LONG time. Thanks for the chuckle, Laura. :hi:

[eyesroll]

10. Oooh! The Kmart Cafe! I'd forgotten!

Now, all discount stores have a little restaurant in front -- usually some "express" version of a fast-food franchise, or a glorified hot-dog stand. But the Kmart Cafes had actual food -- not very good food, but food. Breakfast, even.

[Bertha Venation]

14. Hey! I LIKE really crappy food!

The greasier, the more gas-inducing, the better! Give me oily brown meatloaf and lumpy potatoes! YUM!

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. You are welcome, and that is hysterical. My husband was just

talking the other night about how he used to go up to the Kmart "Grill" (snort) for lunch when he was a kid. :hi:

[VelmaD]

48. Mmm...greasy Kmart hamburgers

When my brother and I were little we used to LOVE to go to the Kmart cafe for the disgusting, grease-soaked burgers. I think about them now that there's no way in hell I'd eat one. But back then...*drool*

Thanks for bringing back the great childhood memory.

[5thGenDemocrat]

8. Yes

And even though it's "Meijer," we still tend to call it "Meijer's," too.
John
But I voted "Kmart." My sister runs the shoe department at one of the two remaining here. Tell her I sent you.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. Do they sell cleats?? I forgot to get them for daughter and she's got

outdoor softball practice tonight. Whoops!

[5thGenDemocrat]

27. Shoot -- I don't have any idea

I mean, I'm glad Betsie's got a job and everything -- but I do all my shoe shopping at Value World. I buy just about all my stuff there.
John
VALUE WORLD: Better living through second-hand diving.

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. I went into a Value World the other day. That is a GREAT store.

I am a confirmed BigLots and Aldi's shopper. :hi:

[Another Bill C.]

15. The 'postraphe police are coming

Watch out!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

16. We have one KMART around here-all the others are gone

We have a Costco and a bizilllion Targets, but you have to go out to the 'burbs to find a Walmart.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Heheheehe...Target...we like to refer to it as (phonetically) Tar-je'

:hi:

[NewHampster]

20. down the street from

shay c pene'

[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. Yes, we call it Tar-jay also!

I love that store!

[TahitiNut]

49. Doesn't everyone?

Target (pronounced tar-jay) is the only decent 'value store', imho. Kmart is Krap-Mart ... surly employees and (consequentially) rude customers.

[NewHampster]

19. Yer all too young to Remember - S. S. Kresgee

The K in Kmart

We had a Kresgee's and a Woolworth so there was no shortage of Ice Cream Sodas for me.

:beer:

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. Not at all. There was a Kresgee in Oakland Mall that we used to go

to. It was there until 1985 or so. :hi: They had a really cool lunch counter.

[dmr]

42. I use to work at Oakland Mall, MrsGrumpy

at Hudsons, way back in the 70s. What replaced Kresges there? It was a pretty good size store, and I ate many, many, many lunches there too! And, yup, I put the 's' where the 's' belongs. I never realized other people are not saying K-Marts the right way!

:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. Hahaha. I am not sure what's there now. At first, it was turned into

a CVS but that was quite a while ago. I haven't been there recently. :hi:

[Kat45]

33. I remember Kresgee's.

And there was a Woolworth's in my town that had a soda fountain. IIRC, the bikers used to hang out there.

[Zookeeper]

40. No, I'm not...

I remember the "pick-a-balloon sundaes." A line was stretched above the counter with balloons attached. "Pick" a balloon, the counterperson would pop it, and inside would be a strip of paper indicating if your sundae was discounted or free. It was a fun treat as a kid.

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Wow, not a one vote for the s.

Go figure. :shrug:

[El Supremo]

26. I say Kreske's

[neverborn]

28. THE K-MART

yesh

[Blue-Jay]

30. KAME-APART

from a friend whose Dad used to work for them.

[bigwillq]

31. Kmart. A place I

am not ashamed to admit that I have gone to. The one close by where I live went under about a year ago. Walmart moved in.

[baldguy]

32. Don't you know?

That Mr Kmart is in the back room?

[Whitacre D_WI]

34. It is The K-Mart.

[eyesroll]

35. A kid was pegged in the head with a lawn dart

Her dad didn't see her, that's the worst part
She was pegged in the head with a lawn dart (lawn dart!)
Now they're now off the shelves at the Kmart!

[blockhead]

36. pop

not soda.

[ScreamingMeemie]

43. Pop is the sound a balloon makes when you stick it with a pin.

It's soda...:P

[amazona]

37. it isn't plural, it's possessive...

The word "store" is implied when people say KMart's or WalMart's. The apostrophe is a hint that it isn't a plural. That said, most people around me just say KMart, as do I.

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. Ah heck...who cares. Sue me.

;) I saw that, could have changed it....but I'm not that uptight.

[bif]

38. K-Marks!

Believe it or don't, that's what a co-worker of a friend of mine called it.

[Zookeeper]

41. For me, it depends on whether...

it's an invented corporate name (Walmart, Kmart, Target, Cub, Rainbow) or a person's name (Dayton's, Hudson's, Gump's, Marshall's).

Growing up in Michigan, a lot of people said "Kmart's." In California, no one did.

[Dees]

45. Does Big Lots become Big Lot?

No "s"....it ain't plural

[Zookeeper]

46. Well, the name of the store IS Big Lots...

We could say "Big Lots'es..." ;)

[Triple H]

47. I worked at one two summers ago...

in the garden shop. It was only a temporary summer job. I hated it. I hated K-Mart. It was like Martha Stewart was my boss. She was on everything, including: gardening stuff, outdoor stuff, toys, clothes, music, cd's, and toilet paper. (sarcasm on the last three items).

The store managers there treated us like crap...like we were a bunch of worthless poor people or something.

[TahitiNut]

50. It's "Kmart" ... and "Nordstrom" (the most-often misspoken)

People who say "Nordstrom's" also say "new-cue-lur". :eyes: