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I see the vicar had his potato tossed.
the vicar saved 0.30 of an unspecified currency.
unless that f stands for franc or something.
I think it stands for “Food for thought”
Well, except the rest of the receipt would then be in French.
Well, except the franc has been replaced by the Euro anyway.
Not the Swiss Frank
Or even franc. Ignore me.
Poor Frank. Being replaced by the French will really tear him up.
Yeah, gone are the days when one could happily convert £10 into thousands of Italian Lire, or Hundreds of Francs.
I spent the last week in France, and for £200 we got a pitiful 230 euros. and it reached 43.5 degrees in the car on the 12 hour journey back. *melts*
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you all fail
The 1-866 number at the top is a number in North America (notice the eleven digits and all, on top of the n.american area code)
No Euros. No Francs. No Lire. Dollars.
and clovis NM
it could be canadian dollars
It’s american dollars. We are the only country that I know of that doesn’t specify our currency with the $ on receipts.
The F stands for food which is exempt from sales tax in some local municipalities here in America. It’s American dollars.
Same thing in Canada. It also seems expensive for American dollars. But a brief Google search seems to indicate Grocery Outlet Bargain Markets is indeed an American chain. I need a life.
Fail in failblog comments.
your name is a hyperlink for dinobots in wikipedia. WIN.
Actually I think the “F” means this is Food – that’s why there is no sales tax on the item. Well, except for the vicar tax, which makes this product unedible!
Got to be foam! (just ’cause I want it to be really)
The French allready got the Euro. Anyone paying in franc will be laughed at.
F usually stands for FOOD, in NY F items are non-taxable. That’s the story. Paper Towel would not have an F next to it.
F is for food, which is not taxed. Anyone try to take the survey for a free $500?
I did!
I did not win…
*i has a sad*
I’m pretty sure it stands for “food”, actually.
I like the touch of the rainbow-colored circles.
I agree with the over effect the Rainbow circles have in this post. Very creative and almost sly of the poster.
errr… over *all* effect
If this receipt is from Europe, then it’s also from the future. 8/09/09 hasn’t rolled around for countries using d/m/y format.
lmao
If its from 8/09/09 it’s fake
obviously this Was in amrica if you look it says for a chance to Win $500 it must meen something elce
the F should meen something elce obviously the dollers dont mean any thing elce
F.it is the tax code for food which has no tax in this area. jeez dont you all look at your reciepts? and who the hell cares who the cashier is screwin?
apparently it was “SHOPPING US” currency
… sounds like a currents affair
…or even sultanas?
… or grapes of
wrathgaityRaisin a smile!
Wining and dining without any whining.
…but don’t get too fruity!
That would be stereo-typical of me.
and not berry funny..
..must ask – the vicar was putting a curtain rail up – if memory serves.. but, what/where was he putting it up?
Well, apparently not where the potato was…Hmm.
Actually, the currency is dollars as we can see at the top of reciept.Probably American or Australian.
and he seemed quite happy about it
*sigh*, I can never tell these things.
If only I knew before I left the shop
Cashier pride.
Cashier parade!
Just need a rainbow ‘’sigh”
And Judy Garland *sigh*
I did like the rainbow circle pointing out the Fail.
Nice to know…
Nice to meet you “and thanks for asking”
Don’t ask. Don’t tell.
if i had ever got that as a receipt i would keep it. Surely an epic win if only for the laughs it provides. i would say more a fail on the parents of the cashier naming their kids Gay
Why is it the parents’ fault their last name is Gay?
*facepalm* The dudes FIRST name is Gay… you don’t get surnames printed on ur receipt…
Something tells me that it is a pimple-faced High Schooler who put “Gay” as his name just to get this reaction.
it’s a fairly common women’s name
My mom’s name is Gay. It’s short for Gaynor, but for some reason she prefers Gay.
And BTW, I don’t have time to read all the posts, so I’m not sure if somebody solved the currency mystery, but the Gro-O is a West Coast chain. I know they have stores in Portland, OR, and I’m pretty sure some in Nor-Cal. Personally I love the place. If you know what you’re doing, you can save a shit-ton of money there. If you don’t, though, steer clear. Back before I knew of the existence of the Fail-Blog, I spotted some corned beef hash there that was “marked down” to something like $2.17USD per can from the claimed $2.69 suggested retail price, but the label on every can very clearly stated that suggested retail price was about $1.59. When I pointed that out to the lady next to me, she made me turn around and look at some paper towels whose store price tag was asking a higher price than the original price claimed by the self-same tag. If I’d seen this on Failblog, I’d have assumed it was a set-up.
yah i love grocery outlet and yes ther is some in nol cal cuz i love in san jose
Maybe the real mock is on the store for shouting so much on the receipt. If the text had been mixed-case we’d be able to tell the difference between “gay” and “Gay”.
when i was a kid gay meant happy
Times change, lloyd – yesterday’s nursery rhyme may be today’s ZOMG YOU CAN’T SAY THAT.
For example, this gem which teaches children how to properly play with their… cats may or may not make it out of moderation.
I lol’d – then there is this gem from the same website:
In Spring I look gay,
Decked in comely array,
In Summer more clothing I wear;
When colder it grows,
I fling off my clothes,
And in Winter quite naked appear.
That depends… when was the child named? If it was before “gay” came to mean homosexual, then it’s not a fail. Not at all.
Yes, typically women over a certain age will have the name Gay or Gaye. I’d imagine she was born in the 40s or 50s.
Also, the F stands for food as in many states here in the US food isn’t taxable.
I think this is totally win.
That poor person, it’s just like beeing named “Dick”.
.
But well, it’s funny for everyone else
Or even Michael Hunt.
*ROFLS* At my school our usernames were our first name’s inital and then our full surname. Then someone called William Anchor joined. Hilatiry ensued.
I know a first initial P, last name “Enis.” I have no idea what his parents were thinking.
or like the politician in my area, Richard Ryder…who after 15 years of all of us cracking jokes, FINALLY changed his name on the ballots from Dick…
I dunno.
Tom Raper seems to be doing fine with his RV sales.
…Please return again and you’ll recieve free sausages!
But no donuts to go with them. Not from this cashier.
Mike Litoris work in that place too.
He is the manager.
No ride out with the bitches.
Make sense??
Black shoes o yeah
What?
Are you a chinese?
What is wrong with the name Gay? What is wrong with being gay, how is your sexual orientation an insult? Guess we are now gonna get troll after troll thinking they are being amusing- I give up!
Bi!
You Gay?
No, but I just do not get that attitude. It saddens me.
Yeah, such attitudes are grossery.
Youe were just storeing that up to produce at this time, weren’t you?
i thought your receipt of that might be better.
Well, it’s too late to argue now, he’s already checked out.
Well you obviously get it, hence you being here to comment on the prospect of said reaction, You just dislike your and others reaction to such material.
I also have no issues with homosexuals, but having “your cashier today was gay” on the bottom of a receipt is still rib tickling. In the same way as “today your cashier was straight” would also be funny.
Hell, I am a homosexual and it made me laugh.
Either it’s the cashier’s name, or the cashier just thought it’d be funny. Either way, it was amusing. :3
Reread the receipt. Especially that part just before “potatoe salad.” And yes, for the grammar Nazi’s, I corrected the spelling of potatoe back to a more archaic form in protest of all you people putting an ‘e’ in my pi.
Are you Dan Quayle in disguise?
I am no Jack.
mmmmmmmmmmmm… 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128
48111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
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i’ll pee in your pi pie
Nothing wrong with being gay. Think of it this way, if the till receipt had said, “YOUR CASHIER IS HETEROSEXUAL”, you would think it very strange and not a little impertinent. It’s just the same, we prefer not to tell the world about our sexual orientation.
And it was a real bargayn too!
Happy groceries need an Outlet for their joy.
… so they go to Gay’s bargayn bar
(where you need a bar code to get in).
I think its hilarious. I also think that there are two Fails in this picture. The first ne is now surrounded by rainbow rings and the second is that you payed $20.00 for a $4.00 Potato salad.
Time for social change …
and maybe a brief survey.
Who….me?
Erm It would cost a damned site more for me to go to that store…..what with airfare and travel costs, I will just stay here thanks.
But it seems the vicar got a $16.00 refund!
Paid, not payed. The customer gave the cashier a twenty dollar bill and got change. That’s funny?
**facepalm**, he payed with a 20 dollar bill
grammer notzing self, paid
Fail? Sounds like a win to me!
*makes note in the check out line*
i agree, its a win in all three options:
1. the cashier is named Gay – so what?
2. the cashier is homosexual – so what?
3. the cashier is cheerful – doesn’ bother me either.
–> have a nice shopping!
If your reaction is “so what” then why’s it a win? Your indifference indicates it would be neither a fail nor a win.
suppose to be a win…
pretty sure Gay can be a first name? so not sure it even is a fail lol
The cashier’s name seems to be Clovis.
Clovis #080 is more than likely the name of the city and branch of this store. “Grocery Outlet” is a chain of grocery stores in California; there is one in Clovis, CA. It’s on “Clovis Ave”.
And the Clovis culture, of course — sometimes referred to as the Llano culture — is a prehistoric Paleoindian culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 11,500 radiocarbon years ago, at the end of the last glacial period, characterized by a particular tool kit adapted to the hunting of large mammals and having nothing to do with Clovis (c. 466-511), the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one king, who was the son of Childeric I and Basina.
yes gay can be a first name
search Price is right bid fail
The cashier’s name was probably Gary, and the receipt had a typo.
So there’s somebody typing each individual receipt?
I think “Gary” would have complained long before now if, when logging into his cash till, it came up with “Gay”.
The cashier’s name was probably Gay.
Gary did it for the laughs!
YOUR NAME WAS PROBABLY GAY!
FAIL.
No, you type it once, and then never notice the typo.
Or you notice the typo, but a few receipts get through before you notice it, and this receipt was one of them.
The cashier’s name is Gay…I have been to that store
No. Clovis probably refers to the store location.
If not that, then it’s a random word of the day used to verify receipts.
The possibility of that being his first name is waaaaaay down the list.
LOL, I had something similiar happen to me years ago. But instead of a cashier named gay, I had an Asian guy named “Hung”
I can imagine having a big spoonful of potato salad in your mouth and then finally reading the bottom of the receipt.
It might make you want to pay attention to if the salad had any extra flavor.
The real fail here is going to the store specifically and exclusively for potato salad.
The rainbow circles are a nice touch.
Can I stand in your circle Hirayuki
Aww…It rhymes!
They were probably just having a laugh^^ i used to work in a shop and we once made snowglobes show up as buttplugs on the receipts
-puts on fire proof suit- Having had a teacher once whose first name was Gay (As in joyful) I first wondered if that was her-before seeing it as a fail.
I used to have a Latin teacher whose middle name was Gay. She was a little batty sometimes, but a really sweet person.
It doesn’t bother me!
…The potato salad might, though.
Was? And now he isn’t anymore? ExGay?
Or maybe …
Did he die?
Cash paying win ?
Gay, it is a common woman’s name, as well as a less common surname.
Gay-briel ?
Woman’s name, man’s name, last name. These were common names and were common well before “gay” meant “homosexual”. I’d say the FAIL was the person who submitted this picture and was too stupid to know this.
Sarcasm is intellect on the offensive.
Failure to detect sarcasm is offensive to the intellect.
(See also: ironically abundant irony deficiency.)
Or, they knew this full well but thought it was funny?
Alternatively, perhaps it was a prank one of the other cashiers played on this cashier by rigging the receipt printer to add that on the end?
Or the cashiers there can configure their own tag lines on receipts and one of them is proud to announce he’s gay.
Obviously the old word for “happy”. I’m just surprised someon still uses it.
dang, someonE**
This isn’t a fail. Gay really means happy, therefore it means the cashier was happy you decided to shop with the store. Not because he’s homosexual.
I said that above. Agree.
but I still think he is a homo
All in a day’s shopping.
What exactly are you shopping for?
I had the exact same thing happen to me. He gave me the receipt and then I looked back at him and I couldn’t help but laugh. Its gotta be a prank they are playing on the cashier.
And this is why I hate weekends – all everybody wants to talk about is the fail.
*sigh*
I’m sorry but this is why I was so confused as a troll. I thought we were supposed to talk about the fail.
Oh, I get it, you’re being sarcastic aren’t you?
Thats obviously an epic win
and so am I!!!
Gaylord Perry
Closet fail!
Ya this is a fail! Those taxes are outrageous!
I assume that her NAME was called “Gay”
really interisting —yes i know i am a poor speller
Hahaha! I had a friend who’s mom was named Gay. People used to love to tell him that his mom was gay.
The real fail is near the top: “No purchase necessary to win.”
But to win, you have to call the number printed on your receipt.
Did you ever think that the Cashier’s name might actually be Gay?
(Like actess Marcia Gay Harden)
“Excuse me, which one of you ordered the burger with aids?”
In Spring I look gay,
Decked in comely array,
In Summer more clothing I wear;
When colder it grows,
I fling off my clothes,
And in Winter quite naked appear.
And the higher, the fewer.
HaHa! That’s from True Blood! I love Lafayette! He’s got some of the best lines on that show!
This is ultimate WIN, you pathetic retarded nerds!
GAY PRIDE WORLD WIDE BABY!!!
I just hope a homophobe got this so they can fret about whether they “got teh AIDZ” all day. Serves them right for being haters.
Pride fail.
Calling others homophobes and pathetic retarded nerds just hurts the cause for Gay people to be seen as equals.
Congrats, Commander Dipsh!t, you are a gay gay.
What’s with the recent trends of calling and people calling themselves some military title? I thought that it was just Admiral Apparent and I.
I was gonna call myself Captain Halifax, but then Czukh didn’t look kindly towards it.
And you forgot about General Bondfan.
Yeah, all right, ur happy for what and who you are… but still, is it necessary to print it in a ticket?
The cashier’s name was probably Gay. It is a somewhat common name for people above the age of 60.
Hey grrl! I want to know where this dude works…I love my gays.
I have an aunt, her name is Gaye. Perhaps the same situation?
Guys… this isn’t a fail. This person’s name was Gay. It’s not a big deal.
HAHAHAHA
Lol I would frame that shit.
Trying to puzzle out why this generates so much interest when we only get a couple of comments on our posts – if we’re lucky. Guess we all like a bit of deduction (30c!) and analysis along with a sexual punchline. Food is always popular too.
http://www.groceryoutlet.com/Locations.aspx?loc_Store=080
Close to where I live.
This should be a ‘Gay Win’
i think that the cashier’s name was probably Gay. cause usually reciepts tell you your cashier’s name at the bottom. but thats still a fail, just a different kind
just sayin’. please resume with your banter.
My favorite part is “Your cashier WAS Gay”…they are no longer?
Maybe the cashier proceeded the goods in a very gay way, and the grocery store apologized for it… *scratching his head*
“BY SHOPPING US YOU SAVED 0.30″
“BY SHOPPING US YOU SAVED 0.30″
Their grammar disappoints me.
Haha, Grocery Receipt and Cashier WIN.
The “f” beside the price is the tax code, most stores use this notation, some of you need to pay more attention!
This is, after all, a Grocery OUT-let. All gay cashiers are “out-ed” there. At a normal grocery store, your cashier’s sexual orientation is never included on the receipt.
way to be a buzzkill, Mr. Proper
He *was* gay, but you straightened him out?
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Damn thats funny!
WIN!
Gay is a cashier in Clovis, California at Grocery Outlet Bargain Market on the corner of Clovis and Shaw Avenues. She is the happiest checker ever!
HEY I’m from Clovis
…holy crap…I KNEW IT!!!!
You all are too funny. You have made our day very entertaining here at Clovis G.O. Just to inform you… Gay is a woman that works here. Thanks for the laughs!
you call that a bargain?
The funny thing is, the cashier’s name Gay makes the message at the end of the receipt seem like it’s implying something about his sexuality rather than his name.
I worked as a nurse’s aide in a nursing home on the midnight shift. One of our clients passed away, and the nurse called the family. Now, it’s about 3 am, they’ve been called out because their mother has just died. These people are not in the best of moods when they arrive.
The nurse extended her hand, gave them a warm smile, and said “hi, I’m Gaye!”
It says that the cashier was gay, but not that he is gay. I wonder what made him change his mind…
Actually the “F” is a flag in the point of sale system that identifies that the item qualifies for Food Stamps. Food Stamps (or Electronic Benefits Transfer) is a social service provided by the federal government of the US and managed by the states. It gives persons of low income (and usually with children) an amount of money each month to use to buy groceries. Only certain items qualify.
Actually the “F” is a flag in the point of sale system that identifies that the item qualifies for Food Stamps. Food Stamps (or Electronic Benefits Transfer) is a social service provided by the federal government of the US and managed by the states. It gives persons of low income (and usually with children) an amount of money each month to use to buy groceries. Only certain items qualify. The POS uses the flag to calculate the total price of qualifying items. The customers usually don’t pay tax on those items either.
he probably thought that he was working at an outing center…
omg i can’t believe thats real
Gay is a first name it is pronounced guy
Gay win
Hey peeps! Lol my friends name is gayah, but she likes gay better. we call her gayah,gay and gayaheada. Idk y she likes gayaheada though.
Orr maybe he actually *is* gay….. hmmm it says *was* though so idk hes straight er wat?
Photoshopped. Look at the “G”. Though not as obvious and clear to the eye, there are some minor details that make it photoshopped. The letter G has a darker black tone than the other letters, is not as evenly spaced with the other letters, and is just barely bigger than the other letters. Do realize there could always be a person’s name starting with a letter and ending with “ay”. Not too hard to photoshop either…
Ok, no, it’s not photoshopped. It really does say it’s Gay. I took that picture on my digital camera and the receipt was all crinkled. Maybe that’s why it looks different. And In case you didn’t read any of the other comments, someone else has a receipt that says the same thing and someone who works there said that someone named Gay works there. So, no, it’s not photoshopped.
Too much information!
i sure hope my cashier wasn’t…
why?
Omfg, gay is short for gabriel
did anyone notice that it said “by shopping us you save”
i have the same thing! i still have the receipt in my wallet
Let me Clarify because I actually work at a Grocery Outlet In Oregon. They are stores located only in Washington, Oregon, and California. “Gay” is the name of the cashier. This is priceless though and I’m showing it to my boss.
FAILZOR
You are all a bunch of failures.
1. I noticed the phone number. Its north American
2. F doesnt meen franks or any of that garbage. F stands for food
3. and yes gay can be the name of a person
Its a fail turned to a triple fail turned to a fake
the date is 8 September 2009
Be warned i kill and piss on da graves of grammer nazis
No, it’s August 8, 2009. I’m guessing you’re from another country than the U.S.? How we put the date, doesn’t make sense. But it goes month/day/year.
Sorry to interrupt, but
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
i actually lived in clovis and shopped at this place many times it is a town right next to fresno, ca
it actually means gay as in happy sort of gay
“Gay” is also an unfortunate first name. When I was at the DMV last, the person helping me had that name. I felt bad for her.
If anyone noticed it said in fine print no purchases necessary to win, lol you kinda bought something to get the receipt
Idiots. Her name was probably Gay.
GAY WIN!
thats a win in my book
Well, that puts the out in “outlet.”
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lol i live right by the store this came from
Ummm…
I think this is a win.xD
you guys make suchh a big deal out of thiss.