Funny names of stores

Moofey
Moofey Posts: 444
edited October 3 in Chit-Chat
I sometimes call Wal-Mart Wal-Fart or The Stupid Center lol. Reason- Just cause :)

What about you
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  • AnninStPaul
    AnninStPaul Posts: 1,372 Member
    Kmart = came apart

    Neiman Marcus = needless markup
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    I call WalMart "Wally World".
  • Moofey
    Moofey Posts: 444
    I call WalMart "Wally World".
    Me too haha
  • jonikeffer
    jonikeffer Posts: 218 Member
    Anyone from PA remember the "WaWa"? Seriously, that's what it's called. I think it's more of a convenience store/7-11 type deal than a grocery store, but the grocery is "Giant Eagle". Really?? What a weird name for a grocery store!
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Anyone from PA remember the "WaWa"? Seriously, that's what it's called. I think it's more of a convenience store/7-11 type deal than a grocery store, but the grocery is "Giant Eagle". Really?? What a weird name for a grocery store!

    I grew up in PA...I miss the WaWa...fresh soft pretzels...porkroll & cheese breakfast sandwiches...and now I'm drooling & ravenously hungry...curse you WaWa!

    In regards to the topic @ hand...it's not a store, but I refer to FedEx as F***Ups & UPS as "Oops"...
  • Iamfit4life
    Iamfit4life Posts: 3,095 Member
    tar-jay

    pube-lix
  • Johnnyswife
    Johnnyswife Posts: 1,447 Member
    The Piggly Wiggly...lol :laugh: Only found in Georgia and South Carolina.
  • ABetterBalance
    ABetterBalance Posts: 298
    The Piggly Wiggly...lol laugh Only found in Georgia and South Carolina.

    Also in Mississippi. :happy: My kids get a kick out of calling it Wiggly Piggly instead.

    A lot of my mother's family is in NJ and PA so I've been to WaWa a few times- never did figure out the name on that one!

    My husband tends to refer to all the Mexican restaurants in town by the English translation of their name. His favorite one is El Norte (The North- or is it just North? Can't remember!)
  • mrmarius
    mrmarius Posts: 1,802 Member
    there used to be a gas station called in and out
  • mrmarius
    mrmarius Posts: 1,802 Member
    The Piggly Wiggly...lol :laugh: Only found in Georgia and South Carolina.

    we have them here in alabama
  • SCBrennan999
    SCBrennan999 Posts: 21 Member
    We have a convenient store called "Stop and Go", and we always call it "Stop and Rob" or "Stop and Ho". We also have a "Priceless" that we call "Pricemore".

    And of course, we have "Wally World" and "Mickey D's" and "Tar-jay"; all of the standard chain names, lol. =]
  • MissingMinnesota
    MissingMinnesota Posts: 7,486 Member
    I call Wal-Mart "The Evil Empire"

    Target "TarJay Boutique"
  • _beachgirl_
    _beachgirl_ Posts: 3,865 Member
    I go to a chinese restuarant called Big Tang
  • scoutsbear
    scoutsbear Posts: 7
    I've ran across a gas station chain called Kum-N-Go. I hope their customers don't leave feeling used and unfulfilled...
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    There's a restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, DE called Crabby D*ck's
  • Aj1214
    Aj1214 Posts: 120
    I've ran across a gas station chain called Kum-N-Go. I hope their customers don't leave feeling used and unfulfilled...

    we stopped there en route to Tulsa. We were severely confused. Also, those employees at that store didn't look like they'd ever "go."
  • mamamc03
    mamamc03 Posts: 1,067 Member
    Here's a little ditty, we sang in HS...and college, and yesterday. ;)

    Wal-Mart Wal-Mart
    It's our store
    We shop there because we're poor!!
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    There is a chain of shops in my state selling bed linen and house stuff that used to be called Holy Sheet. They've changed their name now.
  • juliecat1
    juliecat1 Posts: 3,450 Member
    I've ran across a gas station chain called Kum-N-Go. I hope their customers don't leave feeling used and unfulfilled...

    we stopped there en route to Tulsa. We were severely confused. Also, those employees at that store didn't look like they'd ever "go."

    I JUST took a pic of the Kum-n-Go station this weekend. Id never seen it before. I actually did a uturn on the highway to go back and get the pic.
  • Aj1214
    Aj1214 Posts: 120
    I've ran across a gas station chain called Kum-N-Go. I hope their customers don't leave feeling used and unfulfilled...

    we stopped there en route to Tulsa. We were severely confused. Also, those employees at that store didn't look like they'd ever "go."

    I JUST took a pic of the Kum-n-Go station this weekend. Id never seen it before. I actually did a uturn on the highway to go back and get the pic.

    Knew I loved ya for a reason.

    My band leader was excited, I told him we weren't in europe stopping at brothels.
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    tar-jay

    pube-lix
    Yes to both of these! Florida or Georgia?
  • daves160
    daves160 Posts: 600
    The Piggly Wiggly...lol :laugh: Only found in Georgia and South Carolina.

    There was one where I lived in Texas.
    Piggly Wiggly is a name that needs no sarcasm.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/daves160
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    From our 2006 road trip across the country.
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    in case visuals were needed
  • Jorra
    Jorra Posts: 3,338 Member
    There's a hair salon in St. Paul, MN called "Curl Up and Dye."
  • Nikki_is_Knotty
    Nikki_is_Knotty Posts: 248 Member
    A few gas stations here i have seen are "in-n-out" and "pump and munch"

    Also i call walmart. Hell-mart (cuz i work there lol) or Hell for short.
  • nerdyandilikeit
    nerdyandilikeit Posts: 2,185 Member
    I was at a Payless shoe store once to see if I could find a style of shoe...well, for less. They were all the same as the more expensive store I was just at in the mall, and I said (pretty loudly) "PayLESS?! They should call it 'Pay-the-same-as-everywhere-else!'" A lady working stopped mid-stride and gave me the stink eye, which I kindly returned.

    I hate nicknames for Wal-Mart because my stepmom worked there for years and she used those nicknames. Hearing them just grates on my ears...kinda like her voice. :/

    My brother and I get a kick out of signs with some of the letters gone (or burnt out if it's lighted and at night). We once drove past a Sears with the E burnt out. My brother called it SARS and I cried from laughing. There was also a Shell station with the S burnt out, and a Kroger with the K burnt out. We're very mature ;)
  • nerdyandilikeit
    nerdyandilikeit Posts: 2,185 Member
    There's a hair salon in St. Paul, MN called "Curl Up and Dye."

    OMG I saw a salon named that near Shipshewana, IN, too! It was funny!
  • Aj1214
    Aj1214 Posts: 120
    There's a store here in a crappy part of Nashville called "Nails and Human Hair."

    I just get weirded out anytime I read it.
  • spicypepper
    spicypepper Posts: 1,016 Member
    I've ran across a gas station chain called Kum-N-Go. I hope their customers don't leave feeling used and unfulfilled...

    Buuuaaahhhh
  • spicypepper
    spicypepper Posts: 1,016 Member
    A few gas stations here i have seen are "in-n-out" and "pump and munch"

    Also i call walmart. Hell-mart (cuz i work there lol) or Hell for short.

    I call it Hell mart too!

    Traditional's here as well Tar-J, Micky D's or The Golden Arches, Taco hell etc...
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