do you call it "the store" or "the market"?

**Freelance Superhero** · 10-11-2002, 11:35 PM

i'm talkin about places where you buy your groceries (i.e. ralph's, albertson's, etc)...

i've always known them as being "stores" but when i came down to LA, i met a bunch of people who kept callin it "the market."

i dunno, when i think of "market" i think of open air canopies, live chicken vendors, people dressed up in medieval clothing...

i guess it's a question of knowing them as "grocery stores" vs. "supermarkets".

just curious if anybody else noticed this little quirkinessishism...

**brain** · 10-12-2002, 12:00 AM

It's "the market."

**ufcrusher** · 10-12-2002, 12:01 AM

I have always said I am going to the Super Market (when in philly) or the Grocery store (Florida and now San Diego area).

**CornMonkey** · 10-12-2002, 12:12 AM

i'm going to the market...need anything?

**tweeteresa** · 10-12-2002, 12:45 AM

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**NuTs62** · 10-12-2002, 01:38 AM

i never say "the market".. perhaps supermarket.. or rather.. I usually just say which supermarket I'm going to.. like "I'm goin to Albertsons".. <end babble>

**~~Cantacuzene~~** · 10-12-2002, 02:42 AM

Always been the store for me in florida. Only ethnic people refer to it as a market.

**NuTs62** · 10-12-2002, 02:47 AM

Originally posted by Cantacuzene
Only ethnic people refer to it as a market.

And by this you mean...

stereotype?

**oblongmelon** · 10-12-2002, 05:03 AM

I usually just say "I'm going out-DON'T MAKE A MESS by the time I get home"..and then I leave.

**~~Cantacuzene~~** · 10-12-2002, 05:15 AM

Originally posted by NuTs62

And by this you mean... stereotype?

I meant in Florida, it has been my experience, that Cubans and Perto Ricans usually refer to it as a market, while most anglo-saxons refer to it as a store. If thats a stereotype then fine, because thats what ive observed.

**Merlin** · 10-12-2002, 05:43 AM

Where I come from the Market refers to a place there one buys and sells stuff. Think like a flea market or the stock market. There the odds are equal as to whether I'd be buying something or selling something. Remember Jack took his cow to the market and traded him for some magic beans.

Sucker.

Stores are more one way. You go to the store to buy and to buy only. So I call it the store and I usually use the longer term of grocery store as in "I was at the grocery store and some random stranger gave me this wonderful little meat-on-a-stick product

"

**nickel** · 10-12-2002, 06:19 AM

here in upstate NY we call it the grocery store.

if we say market it is for a certain product only like the fish market, farmer's market, meat market, etc.

**Merlin** · 10-12-2002, 07:13 AM

Originally posted by nickelback
if we say market it is for a certain product only like the fish market, farmer's market, meat market, etc.

Yeah, places with multiple buyer/sellers is a market. Only one seller is a store.

**sbp** · 10-12-2002, 09:35 AM

Its the store

**kimchicowboy** · 10-12-2002, 10:06 AM

i call it both.

**Freelance Superhero** · 10-12-2002, 10:44 AM

Originally posted by Merlin
Yeah, places with multiple buyer/sellers is a market. Only one seller is a store.

see, that's what i'm sayin...

**InfiniteNothing** · 10-12-2002, 11:39 AM

Doesn't I'm going to the store sound just a bit funny. It sounds like we are speaking middle english or something. When I think of a store I think of storage like a storage garage. I also think of the refridgerator for some reason. I suppose because that's where I store food. I propose we use "commisary" or "emption"

**NuTs62** · 10-12-2002, 11:42 AM

Originally posted by Cantacuzene

I meant in Florida, it has been my experience, that Cubans and Perto Ricans usually refer to it as a market, while most anglo-saxons refer to it as a store. If thats a stereotype then fine, because thats what ive observed.

I was just nitpicking at your wording, because you said "only" ethnic people.

**Burzhui** · 10-12-2002, 04:05 PM

Originally posted by DarkFury
I always say... "I'm goin' to the STORE".

I always immagined it as being: "yo bitch, we need some more beer, get yo ass to the store NOW!!!!"

Yea i call it the store

**xsiled2** · 10-12-2002, 04:29 PM

supermarket, food store, albertosons, so on and so forth.

**Jenny** · 10-12-2002, 05:22 PM

store

**latingirl** · 10-12-2002, 10:13 PM

Originally posted by Cantacuzene
Always been the store for me in florida. Only ethnic people refer to it as a market.

You...that's...aw, man, I'm just gonna leave that one alone.

**latingirl** · 10-12-2002, 10:15 PM

Originally posted by Cantacuzene

I meant in Florida, it has been my experience, that Cubans and Perto Ricans usually refer to it as a market, while most anglo-saxons refer to it as a store. If thats a stereotype then fine, because thats what ive observed.

Fair enough...but do you READ your posts before you post them. Or do you CARE how you come across sometimes??

**Mpowered** · 10-12-2002, 10:22 PM

Store or grocery store.

**sbp** · 10-12-2002, 11:08 PM

I think people are being a bit too sensitive here. Irish, German, Italians, Russian are also ethnicities, as are Korean, Chinese, Japanese and more.

**NuTs62** · 10-12-2002, 11:15 PM

Originally posted by sbp
I think people are being a bit too sensitive here. Irish, German, Italians, Russian are also ethnicities, as are Korean, Chinese, Japanese and more.

well, he clarified himself, and he probably didn't notice it at first pass.. but as for what was said, as latingirl and i perceived, it could be considered offensive.. to say that you are one thing or saying somethinhg one way, but "ethnic" people are another.. thats cause for some...... err... no harm done, so

**sbp** · 10-12-2002, 11:22 PM

Everything can be offensive nowadays.

**~~Cantacuzene~~** · 10-13-2002, 08:23 AM

What would you have me refer to them as? Hispanic Americans? I can't imagine "ethnic" is wose than saying "black" or "white." Have we reached that level of political correctness? They are non-anglo saxons, thus its perfectly fair to describe them as "ethnic." If that seems offensive to you then you need to work on looking at reality more clearly.

**Kenas** · 10-13-2002, 08:48 AM

Originally posted by sbp
I think people are being a bit too sensitive here. Irish, German, Italians, Russian are also ethnicities, as are Korean, Chinese, Japanese and more.

Yeah, except Russians don't say market, we say 'gastronome'

But seriously, in NYC we say store, for us market is a farmer's market, flea market, or at best wall street market. Every once in a while we can say supermarket, but that's too long.