By: Tateru Nino
21 December, 2009
At one of the big shopping centres today. The Target store had a bunch of these signs liberally distributed about.
So, I guess probably nobody checked these signs before they put them up everywhere. And even so, Target’s own staff don’t seem to have noticed that ‘protected’ is supposed to have two Es and ‘surveillance’ is only supposed to have two Ls.
Don’t worry about those poor marks on your High-School Certificates, kids. Target’s got you covered.
Target. 100% Happy. 60% literate.
Bit of a wasted trip, as it happens, as they didn’t have any stock of the product that was on display. I came close to asking if I could buy the sign, though. Settled for a snapshot instead.
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So, I guess probably nobody checked these signs before they put them up everywhere. And even so, Target’s own staff don’t seem to have noticed that ‘protected’ is supposed to have two Es and ‘surveillance’ is only supposed to have two Ls.
Ever read “DUMBTH” by Steve Allen? An entire book of all the illiteracy and stupidity of the general public he encountered in his travels. Some people who read it decry it as arrogance, but I see this sort of thing all the time. Hell, Jay Leno has an entire schtick going about the dumb schmucks on the street. People laugh … they should be crying.
The fiasco of the “toast and marmanade” sticks in my mind.
Spell Checkers: Eating a brain near you right now.
And juging by there clip art, the area is protectd by no less then a consumer-grade web can. I can rest insured now.
Looks like another one for failblog
I’m more surprised that you have Target stores in Australia. I thought that was strictly a U.S. chain.
(Ah…Wikipedia offers insight. It’s a separate company, but it licenses the Target name and “bullseye” logo from the U.S. company. Fair enough.)
Target offers franchises?
I didn’t realize that.
Surveillance cams just went in?
I thought that was a basic infrastructure item for retail outlets.
@Erbo: Aside from the name and the red bullseye symbol, my understanding is that the resemblance between our Target stores and US Target stores ends there.
@Pocoloco: I would have thought that they would have had them before, but it is true that not every major store out here has them yet. One of our local stores only just had theirs fitted a year ago. It’s becoming common, but is by no means ubiquitous yet.
@Pocoloco Most stores in Australia will also ask to look inside your shopping bags, or your handbag as you leave. But they arn’t allowed to put their hands in and have a feel, or move items.
I’ve not seen this in the UK at all.
lol, for their sake i hope whoever setup the electronics wasn’t the same person who made the signs Xp