Walking through a grocery store isn’t an experience known for being hilarious – but in these shops the owners have gone the extra mile to brighten their customers’ day.
Channeling their inner comedians, these store clerks have decorated their goods with hilarious signs and posters.
Ranging from pop culture references to the Matrix and the Simpsons, these signs spotted across the USA are certainly creative.
One restaurant featured in the photos, El Arroyo in Austin, Texas, is infamous for hilarious signs, with an entire Instagram dedicated to the notices reaching nearly 70,000 followers.
From clearance buckets to signs on the motorway, these shop clerks arguably have the best sense of humor.
This arrow-shaped poster mocks the ability of Nickelback to fill out a gig with a creative drawing of the band above a bunch of fans for sale, saying: ‘Look! More fans than a Nickelback concert’
Ol’ Gil Gunderson from the Simpsons is back to begging customers for sales with this clearance rack, saying: ‘I need this’
This pet store clerk was fed up with people disturbing the animals and decided to reference the popular Matrix meme with a photo of Morpheus and the caption: ‘What if I told you that you could still look at the animal without banging on its cage’
El Arroyo, a Tex-Mex restaurant in Austin, Texas, are renowned for their hilarious signs which they change regularly. Their Instagram account dedicated to the signs has nearly 70,000 followers
The store clerk who put up this sign was getting fed up with customers bringing more than 15 items to the express checkout and used stickers of three childish hands to help people count on their fingers
Rooks Traditional Barbershop in Portland, Oregon, have an important message for their potential clients with this impressive portrait of film star Christopher Walken – walk-in haircuts are perfectly welcome here
The frozen section in this grocery store is marked by a picture of the infamous Grumpy Cat with the caption ‘Frozen like my heart’
Quick maths! This alarm specialist is educating visitors to his store by telling them three out of four is the same as 75 per cent
That’s one way to get sales! Bill has worked out the key to selling more boats – warning customers that in a zombie apocalypse they’ll only be safe on one as the undead can’t swim
Pinch Penny liquors in Carbondale, Illinois, are appealing to the college crowd by saying they have all the booze you’ll need for school – but unfortunately none of the books
Joe Dough Sandwich Shop in New York City’s East Village know how to take criticism on board. Here they advertised one Yelp user’s comments about ‘the worst meatball sandwich’ he’d ‘ever had in his life’
Woody’s pizza featured an outrageous claim on their signboard, saying that the reason dinosaurs went extinct was because they didn’t get a chance to try their pizza
Another Grumpy Cat illustration was used here, this time portraying the feline dressed as Ariel, complete with wig and tail
No Man’s Sky, an action-adventure video game, is apparently one of the top refunded items in this store, and the store clerks have had so much fun refunding it they would rate it ‘ten out of ten’
Jess has no qualms about writing down her true feelings about this movie flop, saying it’s slightly better than the not-so critically-acclaimed film Green Lantern
These liquor store is celebrating the death of Fred Phelps, an American Baptist minister infamous for his homophobic views, in true style with 10% off champagne
Lionel Richie’s cartoon caricature is helping customers find what they’re looking for in this sign above a clearance bucket
Wax on, wax off! Car washers at this shop are letting customers know their skills are up to scratch after being trained by the Karate Kid’s trainer Mr Miyagi
This zoo has a unique way of shaming bad behavior from penguins, with a poster detailing their naughty exploits alongside a picture of the fiend to be compared with the good efforts of others
Do you want the good news first, or the bad news? This clearance sign puts a positive spin on the snow apocalypse by noting that customers won’t have to pay if the end of the world happens
This unhelpful sign doesn’t help customers work out whether or not the door needs to be pushed or pulled to be opened – but if neither way works, the store is closed
This gas station is mocking the iconic Fall Starbucks drink pumpkin spiced lattes by offering their customers pumpkin spice oil changes
Auto correct has caused a lot of annoying problems for phone users over the years, but this Domino’s pizza place has made light of the issue by writing ‘nintendo’ instead of ‘intend to’
This motel is getting fed up with people stealing the letters and uses a strange combination of numbers and characters to get the message across
The placement of these two DVDs can’t be an accident as Ricky Gervais’s character David Brent appears to have a rather large sausage
Through this sale sign the owners of this store are being perfectly honest – business sucks, and hopefully a sale will help them
The robot takeover hasn’t quite been perfected yet, as this store tells customers their human workers might react ‘unpredictably’ to abuse
Ooh baby baby! Salt-N-Pepa’s classic 80s tune is here to help customers work out which way to open the door – you PUSH IT
This paint store is avoiding family conflict by only letting husbands choose out a color their wives have already approved of
Helpful! This store sign tells customers the store opens whenever the owner wants – whether that’s 7am or 1pm, and they might close any time between 4pm and 8pm
This Borders book store, which closed in 2011, is letting disloyal customers know they should try Amazon for a restroom instead
There’s no bonus discount for buying ten bags of spinach at $1 each at this store, but it means you can have a spinach party
No tester here! This drugstore tells customers NOT to open condom packets or try them on, but it’s unclear why the sign was necessary in the first place…
Protecting the store against robbers would be easy if they obeyed this sign telling them to unload their gun and take off their mask
While this goose looks tame enough, this sign warns customers not to leave the store this way or it will attack them
Tough choice! This liquor store wants customers to choose the ‘strength’ from drinking beer over the bacteria in water
This store won’t be opening for Independence Day and wants patriotic Americans to do the right thing and get drunk, have a BBQ and set off lots of fireworks
Jenkins, the stereotypical nerd from South Park, is placed mockingly in front of these World of Warcraft games in this store
This store has decided writing something creative and funny isn’t worth the hassle and has instead written ‘something witty’