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Old Tue Oct 02, 2007, 06:21am
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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
Totally off topic, but there's a huge grocery chain here in the west named Albertsons. It was started by the Albertson family and they never have put an apostrophe in their name to show the possessive. Every once in a while, someone writes a letter to the newspaper pointing it out, but the company just shrugs it off.
If it's a trademark, it's not a grammatical error. Besides, why assume that it's elliptical for "The Albertsons' Store" instead of telling you who's inside?
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