Seems like a lot of businesses take themselves way too seriously these days. Business analysts are hired to maximize profits, reduce overheads and increase professionalism and efficiency in staff, but amongst all this sometimes a little humanity and personal touch is lost.
Not for these businesses though! Compiled into a list by Bored Panda, we have come up with some of the best examples of business owners having a little bit of fun and being remembered not for robotic efficiency of customer service, but for having an awesome sense of humor. Scroll down below to check out the hilarious list yourself, and don't forget to vote for your favorites!
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My Grocery Store Cheese Counter Has The Right Idea
My Local Independent Coffee Shop Uses A Starbucks Mug For Its Toilet Brush Holder
The Children's Menu At A Local Sandwich Shop
This Sign I Found At An Ice Cream Shop In Amman, Jordan
This Cone Display At My Local Ice Cream Shop
For My Last Day Of Work At The Pet Store, I Made Myself Employee Of The Month
Seen In A Toy Store In Austin, Tx
Those are Omni Flexible Irrigation Pipes that first appeared in the 1950s. Somebody at some toy company saw his kid playing with one and decided it would make a good marketing ploy. What they are actually used for is to place one end in the raised canal, and the other end in your field's furrow. The water pressure of the canal forces water through the pipe, into your field or garden. The one end is smaller so that many of these pipes can fit together. Here's a similar modern product: https://pvchose-allwell.en.made-in-china.com/product/OKqJWlQMJnYa/China-PVC-Agricultural-Flexible-Water-Irrigation-Hose-Pipe.html
If they have thousands the price should be lower! Supply and demand people!
Right? It's not like they are losing money, they were free lol!
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If you didn't order and don't even want them, why don't just give them away for free
Being shipped by HQ without order doesn't mean the store got them for nothing. Nothing that's manufactured is ever "no cost".
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Maybe if they gave them away instead of charging for an unknown object. Just saying...
They should just ship them to some other random store. That's probably how they ended up with them in the first place.
If you didn't order them, you didn't pay for them, so you should give them away, not sell them!
ha ha give them away with every purchase or sell them and give the money to charity.
they should rather be giving the stuff away for the sake of logic.
Drop them down to .50 cents and I'll buy a dozen. I'll figure out what to do with them later.
if they dont want them and didnt even pay for them why dont they make them free?
Are you sure this wasn't shipped to you by mistake, instead to a sex-shop?
Are you being charged for them ? If not give them away with a purchase !
If they didn't buy them, and they really want them gone, they should give them for free or at a lower cost...
I saw one of these today in our grocery store. It was all pulled out so I swung it around, the whistling noise really sucks (you can't kill 5 mins). So I pushed it back together and set it down. It was alone. I saw no others.
Do they make noise when you extend them and whip them around? If so, they are a musical instrument.
Sell them but donate the money to a charity. At least there is an incentive for people to buy. You can change the charity on a regular basis to cover a diversity of charities.
They didn't pay for them but they want 1.95$ for each of these..ok...
As they are sent free maybe they should give them away FREE that would get rid of them, why charge $1.95 for something you are given free and don't even know what they are.
The toy store in question is Awesome!!! Been there many times and my friends and I have no idea what these are for either...but fun to play with!
I know what those are. You open them and spin them around in the air and they make a whistling sound
I know what that is. I have one! It makes noise. You whip it around and it makes a whistling noise.
There's a cool classroom project. Make something from these, or write a paper telling what they are for.
I know exactly what they are. My siblings and I used to drive Mom nuts making noise with them around the house.
I bet this is at Toy Joy, they have signs up on a lot of their stuff just for fun. We always go there when were in Austin.
So the store didn't order or pay for them but they want the customer to pay...yeah, that sounds right.
Correct. That does sound right. You know, if it isn't a made up story that is
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Business companies!They got them for free but ask customers to pay for something useless!
Well... considering that since they just keep getting them, and no idea where they are coming from, chances are they aren't paying for them- so how about they PAY folks to "re-home" them?
This Tattoo Shops Signs Are Always On Point
False Advertising
This Pizza Shop Gets It
As Somebody Who Works In Retail, This Sign Should Be Posted In Every Store Ever
This is why you don't yell at someone when they get their order wrong! Not only you're making a person's day bad. You could be screwing up a robot's day as well! We'll all blame you for their hostile takeover!
At The Coffee Shop When You Get Hit By This Unexpected Quote Of The Day
A Local Computer Repair Shop Thinks They're Funny. They're Right
Someone At The Arts & Crafts Store Has A Warped Sense Of Humour
Safety First
Aussie Coffee Shop Tells It Like It Is
They Mounted A Vegan To The Wall At My Local Butcher Shop
Local Hardware Store With A Sense Of Humour
Was Sitting At My Local Coffee Shop And Randomly Decided To Flip Over The Plastic Triangle Menu They Have On All The Tables
I Was Given The Ability To Control What Gets Printed On The Receipts At The Doughnut Shop Where I Work. This Is The First Thing I Did
Well, That Got Dark Fast
The Sign Outside My Local Coffee Shop
New Seasonal Item In The Produce Department At The Grocery Store
Went To A Mexican Wrestling-Themed Taco Shop The Other Night, Was Not Disappointed
My Local Ice Cream Shop Has This On Their Dishes
Ad For Local Pizza Shop. They're Getting My Business
Best Shop Ever
An Actual Canadian Coffee Shop
Local Donut Shop Just Posted This Photo
Found In A Florida Grocery Store. That's How You Sell Some Produce!
Seen On The Ceiling Of An Istanbul Shop
Coffee Shop Drink Sizes Based On How Much Sleep You Had Last Night
Someone In The Wine Section At My Local Giant Eagle Has A Sense Of Humour
My Kind Of Shop
I Found This At My Local Supermarket
This Smoke Shop's Sign
I Noticed This Bottle At A Local Coffee Shop, And Asked The Owner About It. He Said "Health Inspector Asked 'What's This Jar?' And I Said Nothing, It's Empty, And She Said 'Everything Has To Be Labeled' So I Labeled It"
The Children's Book Section At This Gift Shop Doesn't Candy Coat A Damn Thing
Shaving Sign At A Barber Shop
God Bless Dublin and all it's humor!...and Guinness...can't forget Guinness...
Donut Shop In My Area Is Doing Renovations
Must have gone hitchhiking on a Vogon Construction ship. Hope they thought to bring their towels.
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Does anyone else find it interesting that these pictures show up ALL over social media, but by different users? The - "We don't know what these are" in my local toy store - just happen to also be "In my local Dollar Store" and "At my local grocery store". WOW. That photographer geats the same shot EVERYWHERE! He's got talent.
Humor keeps my stable................even if I don't get a donut.
Dear BP. Stop shortening lists to less than 50. Its obnoxious and unnecessary. I like the long lists. Its more entertaining. Also, please stop with the random facts in between submissions. The "did you know in 1902, blah blah blah, someone something or another did a study on blah blah blah.....". Its distracting and uninteresting. I didn't come here to be educated on random s**t. I can Google my own stuff. I came here to be entertained. Not educated. Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
Brilliant, I hope these places sell 'sqids' of stuff cos with that humour they certainly deseve to
I am so sorry you don't have a funny bone. AFV is pretty good for laughs, though
Load More Replies... Does anyone else find it interesting that these pictures show up ALL over social media, but by different users? The - "We don't know what these are" in my local toy store - just happen to also be "In my local Dollar Store" and "At my local grocery store". WOW. That photographer geats the same shot EVERYWHERE! He's got talent.
Humor keeps my stable................even if I don't get a donut.
Dear BP. Stop shortening lists to less than 50. Its obnoxious and unnecessary. I like the long lists. Its more entertaining. Also, please stop with the random facts in between submissions. The "did you know in 1902, blah blah blah, someone something or another did a study on blah blah blah.....". Its distracting and uninteresting. I didn't come here to be educated on random s**t. I can Google my own stuff. I came here to be entertained. Not educated. Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
Brilliant, I hope these places sell 'sqids' of stuff cos with that humour they certainly deseve to
I am so sorry you don't have a funny bone. AFV is pretty good for laughs, though
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