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The "Zayre Güt" story might be more plausible if it were described as a play on or corruption of sehr güt which is the actual German phrase for "very good."

Zayre was once called "Congo(Leopoldsville)??" Is this true? Seems like a REALLY un-catchy name for a store. Ed Sanville 23:13, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm deleting that Congo bit. It's not coherent, it's extremely implausible, and there's nothing out on teh interwebs to even kinda-sorta back up this fanciful story. PeteJayhawk 18:28, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I found where the vandal inserted that phony origin story. Reverted back to before it. The most dangerous vandals are the ones who put things like that in... it can take weeks before sombody noticed. Ed Sanville 19:35, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I worked for Zayre in the late 1980s, and I remember the company info telling us it the name came from the German "sehr gut" (or "zehr gut")--but I never heard that the store was supposed to be named "Zayre Gut" and they didn't have enough money for the whole sign. That seems almost unlikely. Anyone else remember details about this? Indy 17:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I am the one who first placed the "Zayre Gut" story on this page, orginally referring to it as "German." I worked for the company from 1975-1978, and the "sign story" was one of the first things we were taught during our introductory training. I don't know German from Yiddish from any variant in between, and while I can't verify that "it" happened just that way, I can attest to the fact that it is the story that the Zayre Corporation wanted it's employee to believe.

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Zayre-logo1.PNG

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