Using supermarket names in this forum

cheeseontoastwithham

It may seem an obvious question but I am not a legal connoisseur or a Money Saving Expert forum devotee - I would like to know if there is some kind of legal or data protection statement probibiting the use of the supermarkets actual names on sites such as this.

This is because so many people on the forum seem to say 'Mr S', 'Sainsbob's' or 'Sainsburgers' rather than 'Sainsbury's' and recently I saw someone writing 'a supermarket which can't be named but rhymes with 'Bo-op' in a post rather than using their actual names.

Can anyone explain to me whether this is just an MSE Forum tradition or some kind of legal stipulation - just interested! (However if I was Sainsbury's marketing guru I would certainly rename it 'Sainsburgers' - much more memorable I think?!

dlusman

Seems to be some sort of tradition , born of a belief that supermarkets monitor these boards and by saying "Mr Ts" Tesco will not know post is about them
Alternatively -
some people are just weird

eddddy

dlusman wrote: »

Seems to be some sort of tradition , born of a belief that supermarkets monitor these boards and by saying "Mr Ts" Tesco will not know post is about them
Alternatively -
some people are just weird

...probably more likely because the people at Tesco don't actually bother to read every thread/post on every forum site - they just have robots (or people) that do searches for the word 'Tesco'.

... so they possibly never find posts that just refer to 'Mr T' or some misspelling of Tesco.