17 supermarket signs made by secret comedy geniuses
Working in supermarkets is tough work. the hours are long, the pay is bad and annoying members of the public sometimes look down on you.
However there is one respite from the tedium of it all: can you get away with sticking up ridiculous signs?
Here’s 17 of the very best that the fine people who work in supermarkets have to offer:
1. When you can’t remember the names of vegetables
https://twitter.com/adamhess1/status/938081086193758209
2. When you want to encourage underage drinking
Don't we all. pic.twitter.com/wXN2GDRPjf
— Nicola Jane Swinney (@NicolaJSwinney) December 9, 2017
3. When you REALLY want to encourage underage drinking
Source: joyreactor.
4. When you subvert the very foundations of reality
Supermarket LIES. pic.twitter.com/uV2bXGRi (via @TeaAndCopy)
— The Poke (@ThePoke) December 20, 2012
5. When you just don’t care what you write on signs as long as it makes Barry in the back office giggle
https://twitter.com/danpottage_/status/382943710268239872
6. When you see if you can get away with swapping in a funnier words
I can't work out which bit of this sign in @Sainsburys is the funniest http://t.co/XXhmF1qkGS (HT @gpomph)
— Steve Taylor (He/Him) (@danophile) October 8, 2013
7. When you arrange things on shelves to make it frankly disturbing
A most interesting example of creative shelf stacking in Sainsburys Pinner! pic.twitter.com/Pc97Hjdlvt
— Vaughan Matthews (@VCM36) October 14, 2013
8. When you’re just mashing language together to create new forms of art
Source: imgur
9. When you just want to tell the world how much you love ass
Source: imgur
10. When juxtaposition is your friend
Source: Reddit
11. When hiding a bit of the word just improves things too much
Source: mrchrisalf2004.blogspot.co.uk
12. When working at the supermarket sounds like too much fun
“I think I’ll skip that party” notes majorviolence over on Reddit.
Source: Reddit
13. So much fun that it leads to this
https://www.instagram.com/p/tZVCJjtpqI/
14. When it offers you so many opportunities for trolling
Source: Reddit
15. When you want to troll dad
16. And you want to troll mum too
Actual sign in my local supermarket. #NuffSaid pic.twitter.com/y5b6vzN4zp
— RD (@Wuuds_man) July 25, 2015
17. When you just want to stick up signs just to make people wonder “what the hell happened here to make that necessary?”
Here is a handy supermarket sign informing people that 'Cat milk does not come from cats'
Now you know.@BBCRadMac pic.twitter.com/zriihECkPD— Pete Fij (@petefij) November 6, 2015
We salute all those who work in supermarkets and long may they continue to entertain us with their secret genius.