McKay and McKay's

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I’m going to be driving through the south and I wanted to plan out what bookstores I will stop at.

I like McKay’s and I plan at stopping at some of them. But I wanted to check on the locations.

I found four stores are good. The one that used to be in Greensboro has moved to Mebane. But the store that was in Manassas seemed to have vanished. I figured it had closed.

But then I found that the store is still there. I was trying to figure out why its location wasn’t listed with the others. And then I noticed something; the store in Manassas is named McKay and the other five stores are named McKay’s.

So I’m now assuming that despite the close similarity in their names, these are two different businesses.

Was this always the case and I never noticed it before? Or was McKay once a McKay’s? Did the McKay’s (who I believe were around first) people have any issue with another bookstore calling themselves McKay? Is there a family connection going on?

We won’t get into McKay’s Market, which is a grocery store chain in Oregon.

2

I have no answer (I’m not familiar with the area). But I just wanted to come in to say: I’m glad there are still bookstores!

3

My local used bookstore in Winston-Salem is McKay’s, with apostrophe-S, but their website is “mckaybooks.com”. Your McKay seems to be a separate company.

4

The store in Manassas appears to be a used book store, their URL is mckayusedbooks.com.

5

Yes, sorry if I wasn’t clear. McKay’s is a chain of large used book stores in the upper south. McKay is also a large used book store in the upper south.

I’ve been to all of the McKay’s stores as well as the McKay store. And the McKay store is pretty much the same as a McKay’s store, which is part of the reason I assumed it was a McKay’s.