I just read in another thread that there is a supermarket called “Food Lion”. For some reason, I find that very amusing. If we had one here, I would shop there always.
I used to shop at one caled “Foodland”. I visited the Land of Food, frequently.
Do you have any good food store names?
And, a couple of off-topics:
Someone told me that all supermarkets in Britain have a “s” in their names, eg Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Marks & Spencer. Is this true?
Is there a relationship between Walmart and Walgreens? Are they branches of the same company?
Apologies if these topics have been discussed before.
When I lived in Philadelphia I sometimes shopped at Acme (pronounced Ac-A-Me). Then again, many called the city Filthadelphia and I drove every day on the SureKill Expressway. What a town.
I currently shop at Giant Eagle. So don’t fuck with me, cause, you know, Giant Eagle.
I had always assumed that was the case, but your question made me do a bit of reseach and apparently they are not releated. Per this site: Walgreens - Wikipedia
So well before Sam Walton, there was Charles Walgreen.
As for grocery store names, I shop at Kroger and Publix (not a mis-spell). When I lived in Abu Dhabi, I shopped a lot a Spinney’s and Carrefour.
I worked for Harris-Teeter for way too long. Got some nice stock out of it, eventually. But then Kroger bought them out and it was, “Here. Have a check for your stocks. Enjoy paying all those taxes, ha ha.”
We used to have Piggly Wiggly here. H-E-B is a (really great) Texas chain-- initials of the founder, Howard E. Butt. The joke was that if they merged, they would be called “Wiggly Butt.”