Wal-Marts, singular

[David Donnell]

Back home in smalltown Missouri, I often hear people say, for
example, "I'm going over to Wal-Marts." So the following CNN sentence
baffled me for a moment:

http://tinyurl.com/28swh6

"Wal-Marts are not supposed to return opened packages to the sales floor."

I immediately thought it was a typo, that they obviously meant to
write "Wal-Marts IS not supposed to return opened packages to the
sales floor".

(You can take the boy outa the country...)

DD
Missouri-native in NYC

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