target is crazy
We'd like to alert you to an exciting sale on iTunes gift cards at
Target this week. All cards are $30, regardless of whether their face value is $15 or $25.
(Thanks, Nick!)
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best buy
We're a little concerned about
Best Buy's employees. Particularly, the employee at reader Eric's local store who posted this shelf tag, thinking that nothing was wrong.
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confusing
Theoretically, if you buy more of something, you should pay less per item, or per unit. That's the entire point of buying things in bulk. Right? Not necessarily. To confuse the logical part of your brain this fine morning, here's a collection of instances where customers pay more when they buy more.
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cvs
A few weeks apart, in different stores, readers Spencer and Sean spotted the same error on CVS
shelf tags. Printing error? Zoned-out employees? Maybe our assumptions are all wrong, and it's an innovative new pricing strategy.
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shelf tags
Jewel-Osco, a Chicago-area grocery chain, implemented some
much-publicized price cuts a few weeks ago. Let's see how they're doing with that.
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stupidity
Fear not, art history majors.
René Magritte is alive and well and working at
Target in Chicago. Reader Cecil spotted this shelf tag last week underneath some soda bottles. Clearly someone either wasn't reading the signs, or needs to drink more soda. (click to view full-size image)