Rename! Voldemort didn't even do this! (crowner switched Oct 8): Volde Mart

Okay, so I came across this trope, and it doesn't seem to have anything especially wrong with the examples or wicks except that it seems like it's probably underused, and hasn't brought many people to the site. But COME ON, it's named partly after a character who didn't even do what the trope is about! It says right on it "And no, He Who Must Not Be Named doesn't own a chain of supermarkets." I think that qualifies it for a rename.

Classic example of a pun in search of a trope. And definitely underused, I can think of several anime examples right off the top of my head.

Anyway...hmm...Evil R Us? Nah, I think we should avoid tying this directly to being "evil"

Surely there are legit examples we can use as a name.

Predatory Business . What this trope is about is called "predatory business practices", in real life.

edited 30th Jul '11 8:57:52 PM by Madrugada

I would definitely never have been able to find this, had I been looking. At the very least, needs some good redirects.

I wouldn't mind calling it Predatory Business Practicing.

Yeah, this could use a rename.

Voldemort does do this in the Barry Trotter series as Lord Valumart! :)

Mal Mart?

Maybe I'm trying too hard for a punny name, here.

There is now a single proposition rename crowner for this trope here.

While "predatory pricing" does turn up as a term for part of this trope (the intentional undercutting with prices), I had a feeling of familiarity with the term and looked for "predatory business practices" and it seems to refer more to unscrupulous ways of entrapping the customer rather than the unscruplous damaging of businesses around one's own that the trope talks about. If we want to follow the predatory animal metaphor, it makes sense: customers are prey but this trope is about the staking out of your territory.

Sure, it's all terminology for calling bis businesses a bunch of dicks so I can imagine people crossing over uses of the term but I don't think it works for us with the trope. It doesn't scream "Huge All Consuming Business Machine That Will Devour Mom 'n' Pop And Salt The Earth Around It".

Rockafellering? That's what I always called it in history class. No idea if that's the proper name.

Yes, but Rockefeller is remembered for a great many things. Being rich, most of all.

Also, I doubt this needs a Real Life section for anything but the most flagrantly underhanded practices, and even then, it's probably not a great idea.

Looked in the examples, and King Of The Hill has Megalomart.

That would require people to know that it's a pun on "megalomaniac", and I doubt the general population's gonna know what that means.

Family Guy has that, too.

Eh...I'm not big on renaming this. The trope is pretty clear from the title.

Rockefeller Business Tactics? It's still dependent on knowing early 20th century business tactics, but it's pretty short and accurate. At least in my opinion. Standard Oil could be used instead of Rockefeller. Actually, that reminds me, I should go check The Other Wiki's page on them and see if any name has been tacked on.

Blast, no luck there.

edited 31st Jul '11 5:04:30 PM by Deboss

I can use obscure show as an argument, but assuming people don't know an actual English word is a bit much. I don't think Viewers Are Morons should be an argument against a name.

Agreed. I don't think megalomaniac is a particularly obscure word in any case, even if it does have 11 letters.

that's a better argument.

edited 31st Jul '11 6:19:54 PM by Xtifr

I don't think it's obscure, but I, personally, never made the connection. I assumed it was a contraction of Mega and Low. And this is why portmanteaus suck.

Well let's look at the examples for any name that indicates the trope better.

Maybe more like Crooked Corporation Culls Competition

edited 31st Jul '11 11:28:05 PM by NoirGrimoir

Guys guys guys. The key is to make it clear first, then to work with the clear title until it's witty.

And I don't see why you can't do something playing off the naming conventions of many of these in fiction.

Mega Evil Mart, anyone?

VoldeMart found in: 32 articles, excluding discussions.

This title has brought 46 people to the wiki from non-search engine links since 20th FEB '09.

Ouch. Trope's been around for a while, too, and doesn't seem to have gotten anywhere. Name seems clear enough for me looking at it (easy to associate Voldemort with evil and then just figure it from there) but if I was searching for this trope I wouldn't look for it under VoldeMart. That's probably why it isn't working.

edited 2nd Aug '11 5:28:48 PM by savage

I just stumbled across this page randomly, and it appears that there's a strong will to rename the page.

Shall we get to work on deciding what it should be called, then?

Rrename crowner called at +35 (yeas:44 nays:9) 4.89 : 1 after nearly 3 months open. Time to start brainstorming new names.