To consider boycotting waitrose for this?

[mycatlikestwiglets]

I bought some Waitrose sesame oil this week. On the label it's described as "for seasoning salads, stir fry's and oriental dishes" (offending grammar highlighted). Surely Waitrose of all places should be checking this stuff? Is nowhere safe from the rogue apostrophe?

Sickening. Let us know how they respond to your outraged email. I complained to Tesco once about a mistake on the front of a greetings card; they didn't even reply.

Oh language changes so why should we bother having any standards? Tsk.

This is shocking. I don't shop in waitrose so I'm already boycotting!

I (unwittingly) bought a card once from M&S that had 'Thank's' on the front.

YANBU. Tell them I'm boycotting them too till they sort this out.

My eyes are burning from some of the replies on this thread! Perhaps I need to do a follow up to Phoenix's email from February

To be fair, stationary may not be inaccurate. Perhaps all the others were moving around a lot.

fredfred - Language does change, and new words are being added to English all the time. But an apostrophe in the wrong place changes the meaning of a sentence, so that can't change.

Rhonda - big lol!!!

your been a bit over the top. Its there choice. Get off you're high horse.

Tsk. They really should of checked something as basic as that.

Nancy66

I'm going in today for my free tea. Would you like me to have a word with them?

clover - only if you isn't got anythink better to do

fredfred
I think stir-fry's looks like it's going to win the language battle here, stir-fries also looks rubbish, and more people seem to think it looks more rubbish than with the apostrophe.

Take out the hyphen. 'stir fries' looks fine to me.

Snigger at Clover, please do mention it!

Discusting.

I bought some special gormet style sausage's in Waitrose on Monday. They was absolutely DISGUSTING and even the cat woudnt of ate them I threw them in the garden and notised not even fly's touched them.

I was classically educat'ed. I speak Latin.

Shoot all there manager's thats what I would of done!

Grammatical blasphemy. Bet you wouldn't get that at Asda. I'd line up they're staff and pelt them with houmoose.

Less mistakes

I can't believe you went ahead and brought it.

#BrokenBritain

I can't boycott Waitrose, I'm already boycotting my local Tesco for their "Confectionary" aisle and a misplaced apostrophe on some sweet gem lettuce. And it's not as if the local farm shop spells everything correctly either...

Yeah, boycott away, that'll learn them...

Badgers, I'm also boycotting Tesco on account of their 'same luxury, less lorries' logo on their toilet roll.

It's a hard life, being a grammar pedant. But someone's got to do it...

Oh dear. Farm shop grammar.

It could be outsourced to MN