That HAS to be an intentional joke. Please, let it be.

(Sidenote: At my local grocery store they always advertise "Macintosh" apples in the produce section. I therefore always head in there with a black Sharpie and 'erase' the 'a' to correctly spell it as 'McIntosh'. This has been going on for the better part of six months now. You'd think someone would get the clue.)

geek joke.

Also, when did the super old glassman renders make it onto gawker? Wasn't that some super old raytracing project from like 2000?

@sgodun:

I'd like to buy a Macintosh for $1.99 a pound, please.

i vote dumb.

Of course it was intentional. I don't think it was a particularly funny or original joke, but it was obviously a joke.

Ironic.
Who says prop comedy is dead?

Obviously an intentional attempt at humor.

Ali G anyone? Someone obviously has a sense of humor.

Btw, how do they get all of the techmology into those Macintosh apples? I'm sure the edukational software helps.

lOl, nice one.

@faust1200: And a bad one at that.

CompUSA is a waste of time. I was looking at a microsoft natural mouse. The new ones were $60. Of course, if I wanted to save an extra 5 dollars, I could buy the crappy beat-up display model (no box, all components taped together in a bundle) for $55. I left without either and when i got home I picked it up online for $35.

Its is a loop hole, it is for edukational software, not educational. Wee typos! Although that can be considered misleading and possibley fraud...

I used to volunteer at a hospital and one of my jobs was to restock the Critical Care Unit's drawers and cabinets when certain supplies were low. Well, one day I was stocking a cabinet and saw that the drawers above it were mislabeled, including one that said "skhool information"

These guys still in business? Wow! When was the last time anyone bought anything from a store like CompUSA. Give me a break!

And yes, the people making these signs are alternative kids (and how the heck do you know one day that - hey - I am freaking alternative) - you know the ones where they cant keep their toungues in their mouth because they have pieces of rusted metal dangling in their toungues, large pierced ears like the African Bindibu tribe, strange tattos at odd locations (like the ear lobe . . . you get the point.

So what do you expect . . next time yuo go . . . look at the secondary ambience than just the products. Look at the lights, the staff, how they talk, etc. Its like loking at a movie just to see the background. It gives you a different perspective.

Maybe it's a social statement about how educational software needs to be marked down because no one is buying it.

I thought CompUSA was closing all their stores in the coming months?

And everyone who's ever worked retail knows that when you're going out of buisness, they's usually so happy to have you show up that you can get away with lots of things. Like stupid signs.

funny, but not as funny as when the road crews do it

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It's not just the spelling that's odd.

@JJ910 & Mills:
The stores are indeed closing down. This one's shelves were half bare with misc store brand accessories and a couple tv's left. There wasn't many truely useful items left (save for one box of Rock Band), though I did leave with a simple external enclosure for my old hard drive.

@darkclawsofchaos: Now THAT is funny! I wouldn't put it past them.

Intentional joke, hey at least the employes are typing to put humour out there after all they are all going to get the axe.

@nytmare: Oooh! Its an encoded message. They're using steganography to hide the message in their own sale signs! Let me see... Combine that one with the one from the "Home KompYOOturs" and "NeTwerKin"... I believe it says:

Fools! These clearance prices totally suck!

It caught your eye, so I'm going to say that this particular piece of advertising was successful. If only CompUSA had been doing this all along...

@Joafu: You do have a point, it was attention getting. Even if it wasn't all positive.

I'm not so sure how viable a strategy it would be for a long term marketing solution however. :P

I would think the bright teal sign was indicator enough, and then the 25% OFF! bit...It was eye-catching, but I think more because of the color and not because someone spelled educational incorrectly. There are, in fact, some people who wouldn't catch this.

I was driving near the last COMP USA store in Las Vegas last week and decided to drop in, just to see what was left. I was looking for a wireless mouse...everything they had was at least 20-30% higher than Circuit City or Best Buy and then was marked 20% off, so I passed. The whole store is just sad and run down--no one will miss it, except maybe the PC Club store next door, who I'm sure got some customers who left CompUsa disgusted with the bad selection and service.

The sign looks more like a play on the 'K' in kindergarten than a joke or someone not knowing how to spell to me.

Can't they be both?

Awww, poor sign maker. I work retail and we get to make our own signs. Sometimes, when we're really bored, something that was funny to the two people discussing it turns out to be not as funny as they thought it would be. We post lame signs all the time. It's funny to us, the workers, and that's what counts.

Maybe a joke or maybe it's brand's name? Some companies take a regular word and just flip some letters to attract attention...