Target Sign Wording Leaves San Jose Residents Scratching Their Heads


No one at Target would return a call last week from the San Jose Mercury News, so the paper wasn’t able to solve the mystery of what Target is trying to communicate with this sign in their cart corrals. They were left only with speculation, and if newspaper and online readers love anything, it’s speculating about typos.

There are a few possible ways to parse this sentence:

Sign baffles Target shoppers in San Jose (‘Am I what?’)

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