<![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> It's a database error. When those signs are printed they are generated from a database of items and descriptions and some how they got mixed up for this items barcode.

Target doesn't hand type out these signs, they scan the items barcode and out pops a sign from their database. The regular employee's have no control over what is in the database.

taylorlightfoot

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @speedwell: I am currently doing this and sometimes...they get sent messed up. I almost always catch it but sometimes it's hard, when the first of the month comes and I have 5500 price changes. o.O No one is perfect!

Raziya

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @amed01: But your lawn looks great!

theblackdog

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @KogeLiz: Thank goodness you are here to point that out, Mr. Obvious.

doctor_cos

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> Awww, man...now my napkins are all soggy

amed01

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @KogeLiz: Remind me not to hire you for any job requiring you to express yourself in print or to perform quality control on your own work or the work of others.

@homerjay: All the graphics, including typesetting signs. Since you asked.

speedwell

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @speedwell: Hey, did you know that there are people not as awesome and perfect as yourself? Yeah, seriously! Especially since the majority of them are working low wages at retail stores.

Can you believe that???

Didn't think so...

KogeLiz

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> I gotta ask,
Is the the Maple and Coolidge Target?
If so, I got to go and see for myself

maxnl

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @speedwell: yeah yeah, we all worked in a retail store at one time or another. I just assumed by "I did the graphics" you meant you actually did something meaningful as opposed to typing text into a sign printer.

Lighten up a little. People screw up at work. Not everyone is as perfect as you. This is so minor its laughable... which is why everyone but you is laughing at it.

homerjay

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @homerjay: Did you miss the part where I said I actually did this? Because I have a little thing called pride in my work, I now no longer do this, but when I was doing it, I wouldn't let myself be caught dead doing something this lazy and ignorant.

speedwell

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> ha ha ha... those are some fantastic napkin holders! and all this time i thought napkin holders were fantastic if they only held napkins. i'm such a simpleton.

pigeonpenelope

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @speedwell: Think of it this way and it may get you less irked-- Someone is typing up a bunch of signs that he copies from a book or something. He accidentally reads and types the wrong description into the program and doesn't notice. He then moves onto the other.

Later, store employee gets a stack of signs to put out. Chances are he's not even looking at the description because he has a hundred signs to put out. He looks at the title and sticks it where it belongs.

Doesn't really seem criminally careless to me as much as it was a comedy of errors, and really only two at that.

Whats worse is when WalMart has permanent store directory signs printed up misspelled. BIG DIFFERENCE.

homerjay

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @DebbieDoesDamage: Depends on the store and the egregiousness of the error... and the direction of the damage. If the error is in my favor, and worth the hassle, sometimes I'll be all like, "that's what the sign says," but in general a sign problem this stupid points to stupid staff, stupid management, and stupid policies. The thought typically crosses my mind that if they're this criminally careless when the whole purpose of the advertisement exercise is to catch and hold the customer's attention, I shudder to think about what they do (or neglect to do) when someone's not even looking.

Yeah, it gets to me. I get grossed out, and many times I do indeed leave. It's not as though there aren't fifty places selling the same damn thing, or near enough.

speedwell

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @DebbieDoesDamage: I'm sure that was a pretty bad attempt at sarcasm... or something like that.

homerjay

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> Not only does it hold napkins, it can wash the dishes as well!

freakinalex

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> I was in a local Ikea and found a bamboo room divider; it was about 5 feet tall and about 6 feet long. The information tag stated that the room divider was....wait for it....dishwasher safe!

SnickerDoodle

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> @speedwell: Do you really "turn around and leave" a store if you see a misprinted sign? Really?

DebbieDoesDamage

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> Is there any platinum in it?

WhirlyBird

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> Target uses Temporary Price Cut to avoid writing rainchecks. Because you can get a raincheck on any Sale item, but but not the price cuts. So obviously they knew these amazing irrigating napkin holders would be huge sellers and they're thinking again. A+ Target!

BlondeGrlz

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> The name of my new band: Rain Like Spray. Look for our forthcoming album, Hail Like Poo due to drop this summer.

nffcnnr

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> There should probably be a special category just for "deals that aren't deals," like the ones I see in Safeway all the time, where you can buy three for $5.xx (where $5.xx is a savings of 5 cents from the original price).

First submission... a picture of a BoA free checking account ad.

goodkitty

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> Now I feel stupid for spending hundreds of dollars on irrigation stuff at Home depot last summer. Should've went to Target for $3.50 Napkin Holders that provide a "rain-like spray!"

aaron8301

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> Wow, imagine what the salt and pepper shakers do!

enriquez the water bottle

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> Better stock up on napkin holders while you can!

friendlynerd

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> Woo save 50 cents!!!!!!

chemmy

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> Hurry hurry, it's only a temporary price cut!

I just can't stop laughing about this.

nequam

]]> <![CDATA[Target Sells Most Complicated Napkin Holder Ever]]> WHY IS THIS A CONSUMERIST ISSUE?!!?!! Just kidding. It's worth a giggle. This is the sort of sloppy, uncaring garbage that, when I see it in the store, makes me turn around and leave. But then again I used to do the graphics for a retail store I worked for in college.

speedwell

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