Which term do you normally use?

said...

> Which term do you normally use?


I thought it had to do with aisles:

Kwik-E-Marts 1-5 aisles
Grocery Stores 6-10 aisles
Supermarkets 11-15 aisles
MegaMarkets 16-20 aisles
Wholesale Clubs 21+ aisles

Andy

wrote:

> Which term do you normally use?

1) grocery. Not "grocery store".

2) supermarket, less often.

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On 2006-10-17, Andy <q> wrote:

Ammended:

> Kwik-E-Marts gunfire, insane prices
> Grocery Stores ethnic owner, open all holidays
> Supermarkets weekly flier, hi-lo prices
> MegaMarkets no parking, no help
> Wholesale Clubs no selection, pay to spend

nb

On 17 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, " >
wrote:

>Which term do you normally use?

Grocery Store

Carol in Minnesota

> Which term do you normally use?
>

Grocery Store

Chris in Pearland, TX

wrote:
> Which term do you normally use?
>

"The Store." Really, that's the name on the sign out front of the mom
and pop place I shop at frequently. Otherwise I usually call it by name,
to differentiate the locations... Hyvee, Whole Foods, Price Chopper....



Dawn

> wrote in message
oups.com...
> Which term do you normally use?
>

I think everyone in this area uses grocery store even if they're going to go
buy groceries at Wal-Mart.


Ms P

On 17 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, " >
wrote:

>Which term do you normally use?

Generically, just "market", but usually its necessary to specify which
one, so it's "Ralphs" or "Vons" or "Albies" or "Jons" or "Vallarta" or
"Food4Less" or "Cambridge Farms" or "Superior". All of which are
within about 2-3 miles of my home.

Cathy

wrote:
> Which term do you normally use?

Used to be I'm going to Bohack/Waldbaums/Pathmark/etc.... need
anything?

Now it's Price Chopper/Grand Union... I've always used the actual name.

I suppose that comes from growing up in Brooklyn, there were so many
similar stores crammed into a small area... like could be a dozen candy
stores within a three minute walk of each other, so if you said let's
meet at the candy store for an egg cream no one would have a clue which
one unless you said like Kushners... then everyone in the neighborhood
knew to meet at the corner of Quentin Road and McDonald Avenue. And
there were so many *real* barber shops, could be a dozen within a 5
minute walk... I used to go to the Palestinian. Everyone knew which
barber shop that was, on the south side of Avenue P between East Second
St. and East Turd St., directly acrosst from the Claridge Tearter (now
condos). Naturally the Palestinian had nothing whatsoever to do with
Palestine, don't really know how this particular barber shop got that
name, everyone knew that barbers were all dagos, just like all cops
were micks. Now these were real barber shops, with big ol' shiney
chromed hot towel steamers, hair cut with scissors, no 'lectric sheep
shears, and most every guy over 16 got a shave with a real straight
razor, smooth like a baby's tush, and while getting yer hair cut Maggie
the bleached blond did yer manicure... all the guys had Maggie do their
nails, Maggie had cleavage deeper than the grand canyon. There are no
more real barber shops. Now all there are are hair salons, only
frequented by wimen and fruits.... all they can do is wash, shear, and
blow, none can actually cut hair.

wrote:
> Which term do you normally use?

Used to be I'm going to Bohack/Waldbaums/Pathmark/etc.... need
anything?

Now it's Price Chopper/Grand Union... I've always used the actual name.

I suppose that comes from growing up in Brooklyn, there were so many
similar stores crammed into a small area... like could be a dozen candy
stores within a three minute walk of each other, so if you said let's
meet at the candy store for an egg cream no one would have a clue which
one unless you said like Kushners... then everyone in the neighborhood
knew to meet at the corner of Quentin Road and McDonald Avenue. And
there were so many *real* barber shops, could be a dozen within a 5
minute walk... I used to go to the Palestinian. Everyone knew which
barber shop that was, on the south side of Avenue P between East Second
St. and East Turd St., directly acrosst from the Claridge Tearter (now
condos). Naturally the Palestinian had nothing whatsoever to do with
Palestine, don't really know how this particular barber shop got that
name, everyone knew that barbers were all dagos, just like all cops
were micks. Now these were real barber shops, with big ol' shiney
chromed hot towel steamers, hair cut with scissors, no 'lectric sheep
shears, and most every guy over 16 got a shave with a real straight
razor, smooth like a baby's tush, and while getting yer hair cut Maggie
the bleached blond did yer manicure... all the guys had Maggie do their
nails, Maggie had cleavage deeper than the grand canyon. There are no
more real barber shops. Now all there are are hair salons, only
frequented by wimen and fruits.... all they can do is wash, shear, and
blow, none can actually cut hair.

> wrote

> Which term do you normally use?

In real life I just say it's the store. If I was going anyplace
but the usual place, I'd say the name. In writing here I say either,
grocery store or supermarket.

nancy

One time on Usenet, " > said:

> Which term do you normally use?

In conversation, I say "grocery store" or "store". In r.f.c, I
say "stupidmarket"... :-)

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notbob wrote:
> On 2006-10-17, Andy <q> wrote:
>
> Ammended:
>
> > Kwik-E-Marts gunfire, insane prices

> > Grocery Stores ethnic owner, open all holidays

I dunno, the Ethic owner is more likely to own the corner gas-mart, I'm
figuring is the same as the 'Kwik-E-Mart'? We don't have those here.

> > Supermarkets weekly flier, hi-lo prices

I say Grocery Store, but I think a Supermarket is the same thing.

> > MegaMarkets no parking, no help

I would consider this something like a Super WalMart or Fred Meyer
where groceries are sold in addition to clothes, kitchen, home &
garden stuff, etc...

> > Wholesale Clubs no selection, pay to spend

We go so often to Costco, that they pay me to shop with the 1% cash
back deal. I could make more if changed my AMEX to the new one.

> nb

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:53:17 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>In real life I just say it's the store. If I was going anyplace
>but the usual place, I'd say the name. In writing here I say either,
>grocery store or supermarket.

Same here. But I never call it a supermarket. Store or grocery
store. Or Hy-Vee, etc.

" > wrote in
oups.com:

> Which term do you normally use? Grocery store or supermarket

Grocery

Dave Smith > wrote in
:

>
>
> " wrote:
>
>> Which term do you normally use?
>
> Grocery..... or grocery store by name.
> I go to the grocery store to buy groceries. I do not go to
> the supermarket to buy supers.

<g>

On 17 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, wrote:

> Which term do you normally use?

Moms house...

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" wrote:

> Which term do you normally use?

Grocery..... or grocery store by name.
I go to the grocery store to buy groceries. I do not go to
the supermarket to buy supers.

Oh pshaw, on Tue 17 Oct 2006 12:13:37p, meant to say...

> Which term do you normally use?

We pretty much use "grocery store" or "market" (not supermarket)
interchangeably in general reference. If it's a reference to a destination,
we say the name of the store, as we have 4 major supermarket chains in the
area. If it's Walmart, Costco, etc., we also say the name of the store.

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But I forgot all about the Amnesia Conference!!

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:50:32 -0500, Andy <q> rummaged among random
neurons and opined:

said...
>
>> Which term do you normally use?
>
>
>I thought it had to do with aisles:
>
>Kwik-E-Marts 1-5 aisles

Back in the day when I was a baby paralegal for public defenders, we
referred to these places as "Stop'N'Robs."

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"Most vigitaryans I iver see looked enough like their food to be
classed as cannybals."

Finley Peter Dunne (1900)

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

> wrote in message
oups.com...
> Which term do you normally use?
>

For the local shopping, it's "the market." Selection is okay, but not great
and most of the prices are a bit on the high side, but it is only about 5
miles away. Going to town shopping, it's the name of the store. That's the
major shopping - better selection, better prices (usually), better sales.
But, 15 miles, one way. "Pack a lunch" is the term of choice for BJ's or
Costco - 60 plus miles one way!

> wrote:
>Which term do you normally use?
>

Goin' to de sto'.

--Blair

wrote:
> Which term do you normally use?

99% of the time I use the name of the store. "I'm gong to Winco."
Otherwise I'd say grocery store or grocery.

-L.

wrote:
> Which term do you normally use?

The name of the supermarket, or 'going to buy something'

Blair P. Houghton said...

> > wrote:
>>Which term do you normally use?
>>
>
> Goin' to de sto'.
>
> --Blair


Heh heh heh.


I'm going to the "AC-uh-ME" (ACME supermarket)

If I just need a hoagie, soft pretzel w/mustard or Tastykake's
butterscotch krimpets, I go to the Wawa (Pennsylvania's regional Kwik-E-
Mart)

Andy

Nancy Young wrote:

> > wrote
>
> > Which term do you normally use?
>
> In real life I just say it's the store. If I was going anyplace
> but the usual place, I'd say the name. In writing here I say either,
> grocery store or supermarket.


Here in Chicawgo Jewel is a big chain, it's common for people (especially of
a certain age) to say, "I'm going to 'the Jewel's' "...

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Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
> " >
> oups.com:
>
>> Which term do you normally use?
>>
>>
>
> Around these parts st00pidmarket seems to be the most popular term.

'Round here, it's usually called "the grosher" or "the groshers."

<honest>

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:21:53 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress
> wrote:

>On 17 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, " >
>wrote:
>
>>Which term do you normally use?
>
>Grocery Store
>
>Carol in Minnesota

Store. As in "I'm going to the store, do you want anything?"

TammyM, Sacramento, California

Little Malice wrote:

> In conversation, I say "grocery store" or "store".

I'm also in Washington state (Seattle), and I say "store."

Derek Juhl

I forget who else posted from Chicago, but for me it was "the Jewel",
even if it was Dominick's or Edmars.

I'm somewhere else now, but "Goin' to Farmer Jack", or ". . . Shoppers'"
just don't roll so well of the tounge. I still think "the Jewel".

A friend moved from a neighborhood in Chicago where we got semi-fluent
in "sign spanish". She moved to one of the the Carolinas where the
local Jewel is called "Ingles". Of course she accented the second
sylable. As in ?habla ingles?

m Turns out it pronounced like the women who wrote The Little House on
the Prarie.

wrote:

> Which term do you normally use?

Usually grocery store.

Kate

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Kate Connally wrote:

> wrote:
>
>> Which term do you normally use?
>
>
> Usually grocery store.

Although, actually, I usually just refer to the
store by name. But when speaking of grocery stores
in generaly it's grocery store.

Kate


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“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
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