• anon (unregistered) in reply to Kempeth
    Kempeth:
    Anonymous:
    The best before date on that bottle is "March 25th 2010". Best before dates are often presented like this (and you know it submitter - so stop wasting our time).
    Yes but printing March 25th 2010 as "MAR 2510" is a small WTF in it self so the submission remains valid either way...

    If you are short on characters then at least move the space somewhere else - ie "MAR25 10".

    There is no WTF here. The contents of the bottle will probably be fine until 2510. The real WTF is that EVERYTHING (in the EU at least) now seems to require a Best-Before Date.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to method1
    method1:
    In the UK, although Walmart own ASDA, they just bought the chain 'off the peg' - ASDA had been around for decades before Walmart got involved. Walmart's main influences are being fanatically anti-union & driving wages downwards. Not one of the USA's best exports

    But strangely, in my experience, the staff in Asda (I use 3 regularly) seem some of the best in the business - almost always very polite and helpful. Only Waitrose (the other end of the price spectrum) staff beat them.

    Tesco and Sainsbury tend be surly and unhelpful.

  • Mijzelf (unregistered) in reply to Sir Read-a-Lot
    Sir Read-a-Lot:
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  • Moogal (unregistered) in reply to anon

    I'd have to agree - for staff attitude and helpfulness I've found Waitrose and Asda to be the best of the big UK supermarkets, Sainsbury's are usually acceptable, and Tesco and Morrisons are mostly pretty awful.

  • (cs)
    "I spotted this at the service counter of a retail store in Hawaii," Ian notes, "I wasn't all that tempted to sign up for the credit card, though."

    PRISONER ZERO WILL VACATE THE HUMAN RESIDENCE OR THE HUMAN RESIDENCE WILL BE INCINERATED.

  • (cs) in reply to Shinobu

    I was bored so I deciphered the rest of it. I got most of it from the image but unfortunately Shift-JIS uses some code points that are not valid characters in Windows-1252 which was used to display the message.

    TS-RHTGLを再起動しました。 TS-RHTGLは再起動のあと自動的にアップデートを実行してシャットダウンします。 TS-RHTGLがシャットダウンしたら電源をONにして[OK]ボタンを選択して下さい。

    Translation:

    TS-RHTGL has restarted. TS-RHTGL will automatically update itself and shut down. When TS-RHTGL has shut down, switch the power button to ON and click the "OK" button.

    Something like that.

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    American's most European Supermarket? What's that supposed to mean? Over-priced and you have to bag your own groceries? Serious, where is begin the "most European" supermarket a selling point?
    Based on what I've seen of US supermarkets, I think it means that they stock a decent range of fresh fruit and vegetables.
  • John (unregistered)

    Note to the person that submitted the Scottish Power one. If you want to redact personal info, be sure to blur out the datamatrix code. Just because you can't read it, it doesn't mean we can't.

  • Jack (unregistered) in reply to WhiskeyJack

    ASDA

  • (cs)

    You shouldn't be buying sandals because they're disgusting but if you looked up "thong" you may well end up with a mixture of flip-flops and underwear as the term can have either meaning.

  • Shinobu (unregistered) in reply to SlyEcho

    Thanks. Maybe this is something for a BYOC challenge: automatically decipher mojibake, taking into account invisible characters and confusingly similar (, versus ‚) glyphs.

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