Tesco or Tescos

[EvianBaby]

My dad, who is very particular about the correct use of the english language thinks that 'I went to Tescos' is fine.

I disagree, there should be no S.

Who is correct?

[annie0000]

you are. My son when he was a 3 year old pointed that out to his nursery teacher when she incorrectly said tescos - she told us later after she checked and realised he was right!!!!

[Kiki-frog]

You're right, it is just Tesco, but we all say Tescos, just like we talk about W H Smiths or Marks and Spencers.

[rockyracoon]

It's how we say we're going to a mate's though isn't it? I'm off to Jane's, no I'm not I'm popping in to Sharon's, so we just add the 's onto where we are going.

[heathfield]

IMHO if you went to the Tesco store you went to the store named Tesco. If you went to Tesco's, you'd be going to the store owned by Tesco. The apostrophe is implying ownership, and substitutes for the word 'his', (or its), and in full you would say you'd gone "to Tesco, his, (or its),store." So both are correct.

[Wharton]

Go to Asda in future and save arguing.

[Sipowicz]

Let the mountain come to Mohammed, have it delivered!

[Hopkirk]

My Mother in Law gets her words confused.

Before Homebase took them over there was a DIY store called Texas.

She could never get either Tesco or Texas right. Whichever she was going to, she would say she was going to Tescus.

[ladybirder]

There is no store called Tescos. So you can't go to a Tescos' store.

[EvianBaby]

But then he would call is Asdas, Wharton.

[mushroom25]

you don't say "argoes" for argos.

QED, it must be pronounced "Tescoss"

[Hopkirk]

Yes but Ladybirder, there is a company called Tesco, and you can go to one of their shops (Tesco's)

[shoota]

I go to Carrefour......

[annie0000]

I think it works with the s when the store is called after a person, i.e. Marks and Spencer's, Sainsbury's etc, but not when it is a company name e.g Tesco, Asda etc

[4getmenot]

basically tesco is right. If you went to more than one tesco then you would be going to tescos.

[Quizmonster]

The company is called Tesco, so saying, "I went to Tesco's" - meaning I went to the shop belonging to the company of that name - is correct.
However, and it's a big 'however', most large businesses stopped using the apostrophe in their names some time ago.
For example, no one who works for the bank ever writes "Barclay's bank" but only ever "Barclays bank". Similarly, the chemist founded by Jesse Boot is called "Boots", not "Boot's". Consequently, there is not much wrong with writing Tescos with no apostrophe either.
So, I went to Tesco, Tesco's or Tescos are all acceptable, depending on how you yourself see the situation.

[baza]

go to waitrose no problem.

[ojread2]

Tesco

I say Tesco, I say Sainsbury, Asda and Marks and Spencer - no 's'

[echokilo]

Most certainly no S - and neither is it THE Asda ...... whay do people say "just popping up The Asda"? I don't go to The Sainsburys, or eat at The Pizzahut or or my weekly shop via The Ocado!!

[annie0000]

oj - sainsbury is actually sainsbury's :o)

[ojread2]

LOL ;-)

You noticed =p