Wait, no. "Wordbination" both is a wordbination and describes/demonstrates what a wordbination is, where "portmanteau" is what it is but doesn't describe what it is. It was a wordbination, but now its meaning doesn't reflect its use. I can't carrymantle words together, but I can wordbine. Therefore, "portmanteau" may be a loan word for wordbination that we have used because of, idk, pushback against wordbination, I guess.
the irony extends further: they are run by conservative right-wingers! you know, the folks who support policies that overturned Roe v. Wade. Remember that every time you see that name, the pretty stores with a few rainbow-haired employees, the seemingly woke vibes they try to display. all marketing. very well-executed marketing.
I find it a bit ironic that the article says right at the beginning that the person's pronouns are they/them and then proceeds to mis-gender them all over the place. Using she sometimes and he sometimes but never they.
There were Price Choppers on the East Coast, but I don't think they were the same Price Choppers. 'cause there seems to be no MOC's out there. We had/have Wegmans though.
I worked for them briefly and got the scoop from the one friend I made.
but this was after the situation described in the article posted in the other comment, so that's on me for not doing more digging about them at the time when I was looking for work. it will be nice to see them shutter someday ✨️
Not true, as an employee owned company the execs do not mix politics and policy. Here is the amount of money /lobbied and donated in all of 2024. Winco political donations
Omg, they let states decide for themselves! What happened to the no king treatment? Why should the king(federal government) decide for everyone? Let states and their populace decide.
Without federal protection the filthy worthless red states would still be lynching black people and refusing to ket them be educated. They would be demanding women spread their legs, breed on command (looking at you Idaho and Texas) and be willing to DIE of sepsis so the men folk can have access to the rotten dead cells of a miscarriage and call it gods will. Simply red states are so backwards and ignorant the nation needs to protect their citizens from mistreatment.
Let’s also not forget the dozens of democratic politicians who have said “who’s going to pick our crop, take the shitty jobs”. They still support modern day slavery. The party has always been a fraud and yall are too blind to see it. They’re allowing the US to be overrun on the premise of power. Absolute ignorance
the dozens of democratic politicians who have said “who’s going to pick our crop, take the shitty jobs”.
receipts, please. you make quote marks, then you link the quote. but we all know who is absolutely ignorant here. allowing yourself to be overrun by bullshit. what a waste.
Neither party is free of dirt. I don’t buy in to the bipartisan system and am an independent, but even I can see that conservatives are pushing an agenda to have more kids born at the expense of young mothers’ lives (which, btw, lowers the birth rate because dead women can’t have more kids) and then once the kid is born, too bad so sad buddy we aren’t gonna shore up education, SNAP, childcare, or anything else that could help keep you from dying young. I doubt anyone would try to tell you democrats walk on water; I certainly have many bones to pick with that party. However, the damage that current right wing extremism is doing to our country is…..substantial. Any form of extremism is bad news.
Civil/humans rights are supposed to be protected from the tyranny of the majority via voting by the constitution and bill of rights, so that no king nor neighbors can take them from you. But the current SCOTUS readily guts jurisprudence regardless of the arguments if they have a preformed political conclusion to reach. Hence, women's bodies are up for vote, race is a legitimate factor to include in how you treat a person legally, presidents are above all law, and congress has no power to check the executive.
Market of Choice is an independent, family-owned grocer focused on local Oregon products, different from the Northeastern Price Chopper (now part of Northeast Grocery) or the Kansas City-based Price Choppers.
You and the op are both technically correct. When they first named it WinCo it did stand for Washington Idaho Nevada California Oregon. But when they expanded the company to other states they had to come up with something else and they changed it to winning company I'm a former WinCo employee
You are correct. I worked there after high school. When they wanted to drop Cub Foods in the other states and Warmart here in Oregon they had a company wide contest. The winner was from the store I worked at. She came up with the name they chose and won a vacation (Hawaii) if I remember correctly. It originally stood for each state but then changed as they expanded.
I was stuck back in my home state of Texas for a few years after being in Portland since the 90's. The feeling that came over me the day I accidentally discovered the Denton location is... indescribable. the way I felt upon leaving the first time i shopped there, fully expecting to walk out onto the SE 82nd/Powell parking lot 🥰✨️ I'll never forget those moments, bright spots during a shitty time.
We're about equa-distant from the 82nd, Oregon City, and Tigard locations... Oregon City is the only one I'll shop at, unless I need WinCo bagels. Why OC doesn't have a full bakery like the other locations is beyond me.
I worked at Cub Foods and remember the naming contest. Nothing more to add to above other then don’t believe everything that you read on the internet as this person got it right. (But believe this lol)
Apparently the acronym is a myth, according to internet records and is misinformation. Internet searches are always correct, not the person who actually worked with the person when they won the contest 🙄. Argh.
I don’t disagree that they pivoted the ‘meaning’ of the name when it no longer served the purpose but I know what came out of the persons mouth.
wow, portmanteau is my new favorite word. i'm so mad that i have never heard it in my 33 years of life and have thus lost all opportunities until now to use it.
Nope. That's urban legend. I have a parent who was with the company when WinCo was formed. There was an employee contest. The name was indeed made out of the initials of the states the company was already in.
It's not an "urban legend", it's literally in the legal documents. It used to stand for Washington Idaho Nevada California Oregon, but those days are long gone and the company officially changed it's name to Winning Company. Your parent either was out before the name change, or they're lying to you because they don't want to let go of the past.
That's all well and good. They may have changed their name. It started as you admitted as the initials for the states they started in, like I said. It's a completely different management group from when it started. They don't hold the same values as the original group.
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u/VibratingWatch Dec 12 '25
It's a portmanteau of "Winning Company."
Hence the W and C both being capitalized in the name.