Lidl just hung this sign outside their Warrington store…but can you spot the huge mistake in it?
Remember, remember the, err.. 3th of November?
LIDL is confusing shoppers with its new sign.
The budget-friendly supermarket unveiled a massive banner in Warrington announcing details of a new store launch earlier this week.
However, the notice features an embarrassing gaffe and states that the shop “Opens 3th November”.
A customer has now photographed the Lidl sign and shared it on where it is causing much hilarity.
In a forum titled ‘Remember the Threeth of November’ one user joked: “They will fix this on the 7rd of July”, while another added: “The 1rd time I’ve seen this mistake.”
Some contributors jumped to the defence of the designer and tried to explain how the mistake could have happened.
One sympathetic user wrote: "Former corporate communications lackey here.
"Guaranteed this is the work of a one-person ‘department’ of design, marketing, communications, minute-taking and coffee-running who had the opening date changed on her/him so much that the words on the poster lost all meaning, thereby diminishing the ability to see even the most obvious of errors.
"Thanks, corporate efficiency."
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Another shared his own mistake, writing: "Had the same sort of job. Despite my best effort, I made typos after typos.
"Once I needed a signed contract within the hour, life or death, and had to be faxed, so I told our number 1 client to 'just sign it and poop it in the fax'.
"He was cool enough but I was never allowed to live this one down."
But this isn’t the first shop sign that has confused customers.
Star Food & Wine, a convenience store on Ball’s Pond Road in Dalston, unveiled a banner that said it is open for 25 hours a day – a whole hour longer than our daily time allowance.
While it’s not clear if the sign was a mistake or a deliberate joke, it has caused much amusement.
A photograph of the store was posted to the Facebook group S*** London by Aaron Fenton.
He wrote: “Glad to see the laws of time and physics being ignored to provide excellent customer service.”
