Michael Hall - Fri Feb 22 13:16:58 2008
I don't know if this is exactly relevant to what we are studying but I find it odd. I have friends that say "I am going to the Walmart" or "I am going to the Kroger". To me this is just completely wrong. I would never add "the" in a sentence like this. But I would say "I am going to the lake" or "I am going to the concert". Does anyone else find this odd? Would it be something similar to what we were talking about in class when discussing "is and are"?
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I would have to say the ambiguous 'yes' to your question. If I were to say, I'm going to the Kroger by itself, that would be admittedly weird; unless of course you say I'm going to the Kroger by this or that street or store or whatnot.
Though, I could see in certain settings it being used as a sarcastic device, say if you were in a small - very small town that only had one. Then I could see: I'm going to the kroger, as a kind of jab at the fact that there aren't multiple.