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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:03 PM
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Poll question: Kmart's or Kmart?
Edited on Mon Mar-29-04 04:07 PM by MrsGrumpy
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?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:05 PM
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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.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:10 PM
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7. The one by us went out, but there are still a gajillion around these
parts. Too many. :hi:
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:12 PM
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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.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:20 PM
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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!
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:22 PM
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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
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shimmergal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 12:02 PM
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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.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:06 PM
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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.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:07 PM
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5. Updated just for you!
:hi:
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:09 PM
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6. I'm honored!
:-)
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:06 PM
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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:
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:11 PM
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9. It's not just you. It still grates on me...and ---horrors--- now my kids
say it like that. :(
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:17 PM
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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.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:06 PM
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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:
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:11 PM
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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.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:13 PM
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14. Hey! I LIKE really crappy food!
The greasier, the more gas-inducing, the better! Give me oily brown meatloaf and lumpy potatoes! YUM!
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:12 PM
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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:
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:37 AM
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48. Mmm...greasy Kmart hamburgers
Edited on Tue Mar-30-04 11:37 AM by VelmaD
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.
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5thGenDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:11 PM
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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.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:12 PM
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13. Do they sell cleats?? I forgot to get them for daughter and she's got
outdoor softball practice tonight. Whoops!
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5thGenDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:26 PM
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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.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:57 PM
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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:
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Another Bill C. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:13 PM
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15. The 'postraphe police are coming
Watch out!
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:14 PM
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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.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:15 PM
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17. Heheheehe...Target...we like to refer to it as (phonetically) Tar-je'
:hi:
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NewHampster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:18 PM
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20. down the street from
shay c pene'
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:31 PM
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24. Yes, we call it Tar-jay also!
I love that store!
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:49 AM
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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.
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NewHampster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:17 PM
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19. Yer all too young to Remember - S. S. Kresgee
Edited on Mon Mar-29-04 04:21 PM by NewHampster
The K in Kmart

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

:beer:
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:18 PM
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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.
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dmr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 09:34 PM
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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!

:)
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 05:25 AM
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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:
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:47 PM
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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.
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 09:13 PM
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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.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 05:23 PM
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25. Wow, not a one vote for the s.
Go figure. :shrug:
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:06 PM
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26. I say Kreske's
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neverborn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:35 PM
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28. THE K-MART
yesh
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:59 PM
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30. KAME-APART
from a friend whose Dad used to work for them.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:08 PM
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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.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:10 PM
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32. Don't you know?
That Mr Kmart is in the back room?
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:51 PM
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34. It is The K-Mart.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:58 PM
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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!
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blockhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:23 PM
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36. pop
not soda.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 10:21 PM
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43. Pop is the sound a balloon makes when you stick it with a pin.
It's soda...:P
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:30 PM
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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.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:36 PM
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39. Ah heck...who cares. Sue me.
;) I saw that, could have changed it....but I'm not that uptight.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:33 PM
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38. K-Marks!
Believe it or don't, that's what a co-worker of a friend of mine called it.
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 09:23 PM
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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.
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Dees Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 07:27 AM
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45. Does Big Lots become Big Lot?
No "s"....it ain't plural
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:31 AM
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46. Well, the name of the store IS Big Lots...
We could say "Big Lots'es..." ;)
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Triple H Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:33 AM
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47. I worked at one two summers ago...
Edited on Tue Mar-30-04 11:35 AM by Triple H
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.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:52 AM
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50. It's "Kmart" ... and "Nordstrom" (the most-often misspoken)
People who say "Nordstrom's" also say "new-cue-lur". :eyes:
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