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Do you know of any stores or businesses that have misleading names?

Asked by Yellowdog (12216points) May 27th, 2018

I can think of a few.

Pottery Barn: Sells home accents and home décor items, including furniture and lamps. Has a high-end, vintage feel that does not lend well with the name ‘barn’. Potter Barn, to me, sounds like they would sell statuary, ceramic pots for planting, paving stones and fountains.

Garden Ridge: Recently changed its name to ‘At Home,’ Another Home Accents warehouse, kinda like Michaels or Hobby Lobby but nothing to do with the garden.

Little Professor Books: Sounds like where proud young mothers would get smart books and chemistry sets and erector sets for their six year olds. He’s gonna be a little professor some day. But actually its a regular bookstore like Barnes and Nobel— and I suspect its name might be a turn-off to regular adult denizens of bookstores.

The Flower Bouquet: Sounds like a florist but its really a fabric store—selling fabric, patterns, buttons and zippers.

Value City Furniture and Get it For Less: There is nothing discount about these businesses. In fact, most other places cost less.

Easy Foods: I hate to think what this might be

Maybe its just an Avant Garde exercise to name such places such unrelated names.

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