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.
My Favorite Two Shop Signs
That's the button that I'll press the most often. Hopefully there's a siren saying, "Oh s**t! Oh s**t!"
This Ice Cream Shop Sign
And he even told you that you don't need to go in tomorrow or ever again! Isn't he kind?
I Changed The Sign At The Liquor Store I Work At
Saw This At My Local Bagel Shop
Spotted In A Shop Window, Iceland
Frozen Yogurt Shop Has Some Great Discounts & Rules
How To Capture Your Customer's Attention
This Thrift Shop Sells Thousands Of Random Family Photos
Supermarket Honesty
Ideal for putting in a bowl and giving to the squirrels in the park in January.
This Is In A Restroom At A Machine Shop I Work At
Found This In A Seafood Shop While On Vacation
The People Who Stock My Local Grocery Store Have A Sense Of Humour
This Shop Knows What's Up
Clever Sign Between A Dojo And A Coffee Shop In My Hometown
As a Hindi speaker, "Chai Tea" makes me cringe. It's redundant, "Chai" == "Tea".
This Message Is In The Window Of A UK Fish And Chip Shop
Saw This At My Local Repair Supplies Shop
This Witty Book Store
The Local Comic Shop Doesn't Mess Around
This Was In A Candy Shop
This Ice Cream Doorstop Spotted In An Ice Cream Shop
My Favorite Painting In A Local Coffee Shop
These Bathroom Signs At A Donut Shop
No Smoking Sign At A Nearby Coffee Shop
Found This At My Local Coffee Shop
A Pretty True Sign In My Local Tattoo Shop
My Grocery Store Thinks They Are Punny
Seen At A Pizza Shop In New Jersey. The Whole Staff Was Wearing Them. Photo Taken With Permission
Shoe Repair Shop
Humorous Bin Classification At A Local Shop
The Local Auto Body Shop Has Some Humor
This Coffee Shop Has 2 Cup Sizes, Biggie And Smalls
Was At A Record Store Today, Seems That Some Guy Is Making Miniature Drum Sets In Soda Cans
Detailed Broken Door Sign At A Coffee Shop
This Coffee Shop Had A Little Too Much Of Their Own Product
I Was In A Burrito Shop At 10:55 When I Read This On The Wall
Award For Cruelest Chip Shop Name Of All Time
Would You? I Hope Not
Saw This On Multiple Display Beds At The Shops
The Shops At My Local Mall Have This On Their Windows For Christmas
This Was At A Local Tattoo Shop
Someone's Dad Opened A Fish-And-Chip Shop
My Local PC Repair Shop Has Some Interesting Labor Charges
Sign At My Local Tattoo Shop
Porn Shops Suck All The Fun Out
I think that that's not a joke! :D Either this happens vers often or the owner/employees are a fan of "Lock, stock and two smoking barrels"
The Local Coffee A Shop Loves To Mess With Mcdonalds
Sitting On The Desk Of My Local Car Repair Shop
I'm on the fence with this one. One of my teachers always said "If you really understand something, you can explain it in a way that anyone can understand it". So whenever I have to explain technical stuff to people, I use laymans terms unless I know they understand the technical terms.
Saw This In A Coffee Shop Today. Cannot Be Unseen
In A Local Music Shop, Taped To A Baldwin Piano
My Local Grocery Store Is Both Convenient And Has A Sense Of Humor
At My Local Coffee Shop: Ross Vs Ross
Shop Closes For A Pox Eclipse
First Shop In The World (By Longitude)
My Local Donut Shop Earned The Acclaim Of The Highest Authority
Sign At The Local Plant Shop
Realistic Pokemon Art At My Local Ramen Shop
My Local Tatoo Shop Just Posted This To Facebook Titled "Another Happy Customer"
The Ice Cream Store Owners Know
My Barber Shop Is In The Holiday Spirit
The Machine Shop I Work At Uses Salt Water Taffy For Packing Peanuts. All The Delivery Guys Love Us
Well Played, Small Coffee Shop
The Liquor Store In My Town
was this the same store with "Wine has wisdom, beer has courage, water has bacteria, your choice"?
Sign At The Mechanics Shop
A Local Donut Shop's Newest Creation
Someone At My Local Grocery Store Is Lotr Fan
Muffler Shop Understands Dad Jokes
One Day My Shop Manager Hung This Sign Behind The Cashier
Saw This At My Local Barber Shop
Shout Out To This Harlem Cafe Concealing Their B Rating
This Was At My Local Coffee Shop. I Thought It Was Cute
I Used To Work In A Music Store, Many Many Years Ago. This Does Remind Me Of All The People Humming And Hoping You Would Know What They Meant
The Soda Machine At A Local Taco Shop In San Diego
Saw This At A Local Tattoo Shop
Found This Today In A Local Shop
This Was In My Local Coffee Shop
I Work For A Small Computer Repair Shop. I Put This Sign Up Today
My Local Screen Printing Shop Has Very Specific Hours
Supermarket Setting The Mood
Eeew, who is so cheap they engage in that sort of behavior with COOL WHIP!? It's not even food!
Saw This In A Bike Shops Bathroom
At My Local Comic Shop
My Local Coffee Shop's Tip Jar This Morning
Coffee Shop Bathroom Art
In The Bathroom Of My Local Coffee Shop
On The Wall At My Local Butcher's Shop
New Barber Shop In My Town
Found This Flavor At A Gelato Shop In Italy
Banned Topics At Local Comic Book Shop
Saw This Epic Artwork At A Local Taco Shop
Friend Saw This In A Window Of A Book Shop
Liquor Store In Moore, Ok Gets It Right
Saw This At My Local Grocery Store
The Shop I Work At Has Had Some Problems Lately
My Friend Sent Me This From A Sex Shop
Good Advice From My Favorite Coffee Shop
I Found This Beauty In A Gift Shop
This American Coffee Shop Is Celebrating Differently This 4th Of July
Seen Outside Of A Coffee Shop Near Mit
My Local Coffee Shop Isn't Very Deep
Store Has Nope Sign Instead Of Closed
and then they put the n at the end and move the others up for when they're open, clever :o)
On The Bathroom Stall At My Coffee Shop
Saw This Sign At A Tattoo Shop Today
On The Wall At My Local Coffee Shop
My Local Stop And Shop Has A Grudge Against The Yankees
My Local Guitar Shop Is Selling A Rare Air Guitar
Found This Sign Outside A Thrift Shop
Local bar noticed that they're poke stop when the pokemon go madness was at it's peak. The owner joined and bought tons of lures to lure in customes. Worked like a charm.
How To Deal With Star Wars Spoilers
Now Where Did I Leave That Sun Screen
This Hardware Store Has A Section Called What-Cha-Ma-Callit
Hot Dog Shop Offers "Trump Footlongs" That Are Only 3 Inches Long
This Guitar Shop In Ayr Is Called Ayr Guitar
Grocery Store Has A Sense Of Humour About Their Typos
This Target Sign Says That People Arent Allowed In
What The Hell Is Going On At My Local Sandwich Shop?
Oh come on, you can't leave it like that! What's the back story to this?!
A Public Message At A Local Coffee Shop Downtown
Coffee Shop Nearby Gave Me A Chuckle
Cigar Shop By My House Makes A Very Good Point
To be honest I have done grocery shopping before and decided to sit down at a steak house knowing full well that I have steak with me in a bag next to my chair
Found At My Local Donut Shop
Warning At My Local Ice Cream Shop
Gonna have to suck alot of d**k for that stolen double mint choc chip
My Local Ice Cream Shop Is Teaching Kids About Life
Spotted In A Butcher's Shop In Liverpool
Saw This Poster In My Local Coffee Shop
I Found A Pet Shop With This In The Window
How To Utilize The Women's Bathroom In A Shop Full Of Guys
This Hung In My Grandfathers Shop For 50 Years, Now It Will Hang In Mine. Relevant
So I Was In My Local Computer Game Shop Called CeX And This Is Their Network Name
Spotted This In The Bathroom Of A Local Diesel Shop
Actual Sign At Local Pizza Shop
I Walked Into A Local Pizza Shop. This Was The Sign I Saw
Sign At My Local Coffee Shop
This Coffee Shop Provides Toilet Paper Options Along With Their Profiles
The Opening Hours Of This Clothing Store
I Work At An Independently Owned Coffee Shop. We Feature This Sign On The Side Of Our Espresso Machine. It Speaks The Truth
My Local Coffee Shop Is A Bit Overwhelming
This Was Up At The Comic Book Shop I Go To
This Store Has A Sense Of Humour
Donut Shop Humour
So will you go to the counter and ask for camel toes or strong pimp hands?
Just Arrived In India, And Not Sure If I Trust This Sandwich Shop
They Were Selling Fake Grenades In This Gift Shop And This Was The Sign Over Them
This Is Hanging In Our Local Coffee Shop. F*cking. A
Thought You Would Enjoy This Artwork I Found At A Local Sandwich Shop In Phoenix
I love looking at the sandwich bag art at a place called "which wich", the way you order is by marking things on a paper bag, and after you get your sandwich a lot of people draw s**t on the bag and you can hang it up :o)
Found This At My Local Tea Shop
The Gum That Is Sold At The Local Coffee Shop
Liquor Store With A Sense Of Humour
My Local Grocery Store Makes People Who Shop On The Right Side Of The Isle Regret Not Shopping On The Left Side Earlier
Barber Shop In The South
I wish I could use the "no smell of weed" one where I work. They all smell like skunks.
Saw This In My Local Pc Parts Shop
This Is A Real Advertising Poster Above A Shop For Mobility Products
This Was The Sign Advertising A New Muffin At My Local Donut Shop
I Saw This In A Barber Shop
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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