I don't even live in America but I found this article (in PDF format) by Ursula Gross fascinating and a great read. Apparently they have so many Safeway stores in Washington that each has been unofficially named by the cities inhabitants. So you have super-secret-safeway hidden behind a school and not-so-safeway in, what I can only guess, is a none-to neighbourly neighbourhood. I can see this habit of naming stores taking off in the UK as some towns are now so saturated with a certian supermarket chain that no other competitor actually remains in the town!
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6-26-2006 @3:01PM Dean H. Saxe said... You mean not everyone does this?
In Atlanta we have a lot of Kroger stores.
Krogay == Kroger in Midtown on Monroe, the heart of gay Atlanta
Disco Kroger == Kroger in Buckhead, near all the nightclubs/bars
Ghetto Kroger == The Kroger on Moreland Avenue south of East Atlanta Village (since closed and reopened as a much nicer store)
Of course I also refer to Publix as "Pube-Licks", so I may just be weird.
-dhs
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6-26-2006 @4:09PM reb said... Here in SF, we have 2 well-known "Squiffy's":
- Castro Safeway (safegay, if you will)
- Singles Safeway (in the Marina)
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6-26-2006 @5:09PM Meredith said... Near my parents', there are three (!) Ralph's within 3 miles of each other. Two fo them are across the street. There's Ghetto Ralph's, Nice Ralph's and Evil Ralph's.
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6-26-2006 @5:09PM Meredith said... Near my parents', there are three (!) Ralph's within 3 miles of each other. Two of them are across the street. There's Ghetto Ralph's, Nice Ralph's and Evil Ralph's.
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6-26-2006 @5:41PM erin said... Also in DC-- the Soviet Safeway--where the shelves were always empty.
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6-26-2006 @8:59PM Kearns said... DC's Singles Safeway is in Georgetown...
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6-26-2006 @9:00PM Kearns said... DC's Singles Safeway is in Georgetown...
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