Avo …

[HoxtHun]

Have we done this already? Just picked up the Waitrose Weekend paper …

😮
Waitrose? Oh dear me, oh no, no, no!

<clutches pearls with one hand and reaches for smelling salts with the other>

I do feel it’s pretty much the end of plurals as I’ve known them …

Isn’t that “avocado is full of good fats”?

Ah no, just noticed the comma. Eek!

I tried very hard to make it make sense.

That's really depressing.

Waitrose, of all places! One expects better...

I assume it is a homage to the traditional grocer's apostrophe.

"Avocado is, full of good fats" isn't any better!

I have emailed them.

(I am now officially officious. But it’s too dreadful to ignore.)

I think it was the only possible thing you could have done under the circumstances.

To be fair it's not a Waitrose own brand but you would think (would have thought?!) someone would have noticed.

Either way, don't buy them, revolting green slush.

Good heavens.

My pearls have been well and truly clutched.

Is it part of an advertisement?

It is an advert. Half a page in the August 22nd paper. The smaller print below says

Selected stores, subject to availability. Serving suggestion.

So they can’t blame anyone else for it …

No reply to my email yet!

Avocado's, full of good fats

An apostrophe and a comma, but no full stop. What is the world coming to?

Dear, dear Waitrose! Know your market.

Yes, thats what I thought?

Avocado is full of good fats.

Is there meant to be a comma though, in between Avocado is and full of good fats?

By the way dont pull me up on lack of apostrophe, I know Im in the wrong section of the forum to beg forgiveness but I never use them when typing on here, too much effort. Sorry.

I really miss that. You dont see it nowadays.

Or 'potatoe' or 'tomatoe'

But about 20 miles from us, down a dual carriage way, are lots of signs for a farm/market thing off to the side, never been there but they sell 'our own juicy plumbs'

Love that.

Oh dear.
I saw it's when it should have been its in letters 30cm tall on the wall in Next Home in Costessey the other day.

I think I can beat that, sadly...

NHS AND Tesco - shocking that no-one proof read it!

Does'nt AND i'ts?!
Bit blurry on my phone though!

The Tesco mistakes might be inadvertent rather than fundamental - if one is being generous. And they aren’t defacing crucial words, or the central message.

I guess there’s an NHS manager somewhere whose bloated salary has extinguished the provision of proofreaders or better than minimum wage AI.

Is Avocado’s a pun on Ocado? Like ‘AvOcado’s, full of good fats’.
Sainsbury’s, the home of fresh bread.

No.