Do you call the grocery store "Kroger" or "Kroger's"?

[uk#1fan]

I call it The Krogers!

[mcpapa]

Kroger.

 

Barney opened his first store in 1883; saying "Kroger's" would have been technically correct then. Second store opened in 1884, so "going to Kroger's" has been confusing for the past 127 years.

[Jim Schue]

A friend of mine from outside the area recently heard me say something about Kroger's. He asked me why I mispronounced the name of the store, since it's named Kroger. I told him technically he is correct, but that since the founder, Barney Kroger, was a native of Cincinnati and N. Ky., people in the area originally referred to the the store as Kroger's, as in "I'm going to Barney Kroger's store", and calling the store Kroger's has been handed down generation to generation by people in the Cincinnati area.

 

What people call the store is one of the easy indicators that I use to determine if people are native to the Cincinnati area. It's not 100% accurate, but it seems pretty close. Another indicator is when I'm asked if I'm from the west side or the east side. I'm pretty certain that the person asking the question is a Cincinnati native. When I say I'm from N. Ky. and they frown and say Ky football stinks, then I'm sure the person asking the question is a native of Cincinnati.

 

I can buy into that, to a degree. However, the tendency of hillbillies is to add an 's' where one doesn't belong. Folks say "I'm going to Kroger's" no more often than they go to "Meijer's" or "Wal-Marts" or "Best Buys" in Northern Kentucky, at least from my experiences living there many years.

[jvdfc]

I've actually heard it called The Wal-Marts before!

 

And I call it Kroger.

:lol: Me too.

[nees1212]

Kroger's

[tcjkbt]

Kroger's....except when I go the store in St. Matthew.

[HammerTime]

Kroger

[formerkywrestler]

I can buy into that, to a degree. However, the tendency of hillbillies is to add an 's' where one doesn't belong. Folks say "I'm going to Kroger's" no more often than they go to "Meijer's" or "Wal-Marts" or "Best Buys" in Northern Kentucky, at least from my experiences living there many years.

I agree with this and am guilty of it a lot.

[bigblueinsanity]

Kroger's.

[bigblueinsanity]

Kroger's.

[leatherneck]

I can buy into that, to a degree. However, the tendency of hillbillies is to add an 's' where one doesn't belong. Folks say "I'm going to Kroger's" no more often than they go to "Meijer's" or "Wal-Marts" or "Best Buys" in Northern Kentucky, at least from my experiences living there many years.

 

I guess I'm not a hillbilly then. I go to Meijer, WalMart and Best Buy. Never added an apostrophe S to those stores.

[TonyDanza]

We laugh all the time at work about this! Kroger is one of my clients so I make sure to say it correct. However it is funny to say or hear people say...I went to the "Kroger's" :lol::lol::lol:

[RockPride]

This actually drives me insane, it's called Kroger.....there's a restaurant down here and people say "we're going to Martini's".....there's another one named Mojito, and they do the same.....adding the "S" drives me crazy.....my wife does so regularly.

[Dlbdonn]

Kroger

[DragonFire]

I kinda do both to tell you the truth. Sometimes I even call it K-Rogers. Being that I worked in the local ones, I actually call them just as often by their store number.