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May 25th, 2010

Wal-Mart Proofreading Issue

Today (actually “Tomorrow” based on the date, but, um, that’s not important) I went to the YouTube and right smack at the top of the page was a gigantic Wal-Mart ad. Obnoxious, but not unusual, I suppose. But Wal-Mart might want to stop promoting greeters directly to proofreaders because their ad on one of the Internet’s busiest sites reads:

Nothing like price drops from $x.xx!

Posted in Consumer Commentary

Paul May 26, 2010, 5:07 pm

Or “Rollback’s!”

Aanen May 26, 2010, 6:50 pm

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com

That could be a ping in itself!

jk May 27, 2010, 2:03 am

Oh my gosh, didn’t catch the apostrophe.

What the... May 28, 2010, 4:00 pm

“$x.xx” must be more than $5.29.

Faye July 14, 2010, 1:01 pm

also, they have labeled the blackberries as “strawberries”

Ryan July 14, 2010, 1:48 pm

LOL! I missed that!

dissident July 14, 2010, 4:31 pm

No more sex for food?

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