Things about 'Park' and Marketing

So Lawrence tells me he'd give me a ballpark figure. What is that, what is a 'ballpark'?

What about National Park figures, State Park figures, or car park? Do you play in a park or do you park the balls?

Speaking of which, there is this supermarket chain in Hong Kong called Park n Shop - well Hong Kong is exactly the opposite of California - Hong Kong as a hyper-efficient transportation system and no one drives much anywhere let alone the supermarket. On the other hand their competitor is another chain called Wellcome - I am not sure what that means either - no one stands at the door to welcome you exactly. As opposed to a Japanese department store that does have greeters at the door - except that one is called 'Sogo'. Like the other Japanese department store Jusgo.

So don't come in, just go away.


Update April 5, 2009: ballpark is related to baseball... http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ballpark_estimate