# Store and other business names that bug you **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 17, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001 "2020-04-17T19:36:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/181 "2020-04-26T06:02:04Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Also as a diabetic, I do not go a restaurant called Food Koma as I don’t know if they’re being literal about that or not. I’m guessing you probably also avoid the [Heart Attack Grill](http://www.heartattackgrill.com/). ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/182 "2020-04-27T17:20:20Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > However, I don’t know why anyone would go to a hair salon called Shear Agony. Agony can mean orgasm in Jamaican patois. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/183 "2020-04-27T17:33:18Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Around here, we have a chain that used to be called Sleep Train, and they renamed it to “Mattress Firm.” I say again: Ugh. I forgot about Sleep Train. Their name annoyed me, and their ads annoyed me because their logo used an old timey steam locomotive, but their jingle used an air horn sound effect like a modern locomotive. Speaking of mattress stores, there’s a local store called European Sleep Design. I guess they want you to think that European mattresses are somehow better than American ones, and they make their mattresses the European way. But having been to Europe a few times, I didn’t notice anything particularly different about the mattresses. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/184 "2020-04-27T18:43:36Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > [Dick’s Sporting Goods](https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/) > [BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse](https://www.bjsrestaurants.com/) > > Both reasonably good businesses for what they are, but embarrassing to say. We have both of those in my town, along with BJ Cinnamon (donut place). All fairly successful - I guess these businesses opened here in order to get ahead. We also have another donut place called “Baker’s Dozen” - however, when you buy a dozen you only get 12. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/185 "2020-04-27T18:44:55Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > There’s a local massage place called “Knead It Or Knot” which I think is kind of cute. However, I don’t know why anyone would go to a hair salon called Shear Agony. Or M.T. Heads. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/186 "2020-04-28T00:03:46Z")
I passed a billboard the other day for Pro-Pest Pest Management. I’d rather hire someone more anti-pest, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/187 "2020-04-28T00:50:34Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I passed a billboard the other day for Pro-Pest Pest Management. > > I’d rather hire someone more anti-pest, thanks. To be fair, they _did_ say “pest _management_”, not “pest elimination”. Maybe they’re really good at providing little spas and _chaises longues_ for them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/188 "2020-04-28T08:25:05Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I forgot about Sleep Train. Their name annoyed me, and their ads annoyed me because their logo used an old timey steam locomotive, but their jingle used an air horn sound effect like a modern locomotive. In attempted mitigation (and fetching up a bit of railway-enthusiast-type extreme micro-trivia): it has been known for steam locomotives to be fitted with air horns, used instead of the more familiar steam whistle. The Polish state railways, which used steam locos in regular service until quite a late date: had some equipped with one sort of warning-sound-maker, and some with the other sort. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/189 "2020-04-29T01:35:40Z")
Does naming sports arenas after corporations count? Unless it’s part of the local culture, like Heinz Field, it’s so…ick. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/190 "2020-04-29T01:39:14Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Does naming sports arenas after corporations count? Unless it’s part of the local culture, like Heinz Field, it’s so…ick. And this is probably one of the worst examples. > **[Vibrant Arena | 1201 River Dr, Moline, IL 61265](https://www.vibrantarena.com/)** ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/191 "2020-04-29T03:28:25Z")
**Cup Noodles**. It’s a Cup O Noodles; they never should have changed the name. **Empire Today** carpets and floors. What was wrong with just Empire. Moreover, they didn’t commission a new jingle so they could fit in the “today”. Instead they use the same jingle but just say the word “today” at the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/192 "2020-04-29T07:32:45Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > And this is probably one of the worst examples. > > [http://taxslayercenter.com/](http://taxslayercenter.com/) Makes me think of that old Bob the Angry Flower cartoon, where Bob is exhorting his snake warriors and skilled accountants to wreak a terrible revenge upon society… ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/194 "2020-04-29T15:23:33Z")
Reported (omarlopez) ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/196 "2020-04-29T15:39:17Z")
The very uncomfortable Trace Adkins’ commercial for ASCO. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/197 "2020-04-29T20:42:28Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > And this is probably one of the worst examples. > > [http://taxslayercenter.com/](http://taxslayercenter.com/) The Chicago White Sox call their home Guaranteed Rate Park. Chicagoans call it either Comiskey (the homes [two different parks] of the White Sox for decades) or simply Sox Park. It was U.S. Cellular Park in between. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/198 "2020-04-29T20:47:28Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > The Chicago White Sox call their home Guaranteed Rate Park. Chicagoans call it either Comiskey (the homes [two different parks] of the White Sox for decades) or simply Sox Park. It was U.S. Cellular Park in between. The Civic Center in Asheville was the US Cellular Civic Center for a few years. I think it’s the Harrah’s Civic Center now. Most everyone in town just calls it the Civic Center like we always did. ---
**Author:** ![Dsorgnzd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Dsorgnzd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dsorgnzd)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/199 "2020-04-30T04:36:10Z")
There was a combination Chinese food and fried chicken restaurant in Norfolk, VA called the Chinkee Chickee, back in the 1970’s. But the top of my list of least-favorite restaurant names goes to the pair (presumably under the same ownership) “That Steak Place” and “That Fish Place”. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/200 "2020-04-30T05:32:38Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > The Civic Center in Asheville was the US Cellular Civic Center for a few years. I think it’s the Harrah’s Civic Center now. Most everyone in town just calls it the Civic Center like we always did. And what happens when one branding becomes embedded in the people’s consciousness before the change? For example, the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. For 20+ years it was the Air Canada Centre. I think there was an effort to call it The Hangar for short, but everyone ended up calling it the ACC. Then Scotiabank swooped in and bought the naming rights for the next twenty years. The signs were all changed (and not just the ones on the arena itself; there are any number of way finding signs in the railway station next door, too). But we don’t have a short form for the name anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/201 "2020-04-30T15:18:02Z")
Johnsonville sausages. Gilead Sciences, the research company. The name always conjures up The Handmaid’s Tale. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/202 "2020-04-30T15:34:30Z")
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