Tesco really dropped the ball on this one.

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#1  Edited By Hizang

So it's that time to get back to school, start getting all of your stationary. You know pens, penicls, knifes, rulers, wait what!

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I shit you not, this was a picture taken in Tesco by a friend, what the fuck Tesco, made my day.

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#2  Edited By SexyToad

It's to cut macaroni for advance macaroni pictures.

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#3  Edited By Dagbiker

Why are you back to school shoping in a gas station

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#4  Edited By SamStrife

This picture has been posted on the internet for weeks (I saw it like a month ago on 9gag). Not saying that your friend wasn't the person to take it, just that it's been around a long while.

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#5  Edited By Witzig
@Dagbiker said:
Why are you back to school shoping in a gas station
I'm wondering the same thing. 
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#6  Edited By thedj93

culinary arts is a class. they sell knives on campus at the college i go to

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#7  Edited By lumley

@Witzig said:

@Dagbiker said:
Why are you back to school shoping in a gas station
I'm wondering the same thing.

Tesco isn't a gas station..

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#8  Edited By doobie

@SexyToad said:

It's to cut macaroni for advance macaroni pictures.

tesco... not texaco.

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#9  Edited By Marz

nice... get the kids some lunch utensils.

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#10  Edited By DeeGee

@Dagbiker: Tesco is a supermarket.

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#11  Edited By adoggz

i have no idea what a tesco is, but it is apparently run by Gabe Newell.

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#12  Edited By audiosnow

I think Tesco has a great sense of humor.

An aside, Tesco looks a bit like Walmart. Is that a fair comparison?

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#13  Edited By bibamatt

@Witzig: Tesco is the biggest supermarket chain in the UK, it's not a gas station.

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#14  Edited By Sayishere

Shanking til i die.

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#15  Edited By doobie

@mlarrabee said:

I think Tesco has a great sense of humor.

An aside, Tesco looks a bit like Walmart. Is that a fair comparison?

Walmart own a company called ASDA in the UK and Tesco is very similar to ASDA so yeah its a fair comparison

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#16  Edited By Arbie

Hahaha! Whatever happened to collecting pogs or pokemon cards?

"Mommy I need the meat cleaver, all the other kids have the meat cleaver. Why won't you buy me the meat cleaver?!"

"You can buy it yourself when you get your pocket money this weekend."

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#17  Edited By matthias2437

I just started up college again and moved out of my parents and into an apartment, so I had to buy a full set of kitchenware including knives..... haha

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#18  Edited By Justin258

@Witzig said:

@Dagbiker said:
Why are you back to school shoping in a gas station
I'm wondering the same thing.

That's a very big gas station...

Anyway, I'd guess that it's just some horribly misplaced signs and items. I'd hope.

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#19  Edited By Mastercheesey

I don't know what Tesco is. Is it a not American thing?

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#20  Edited By roborobb

Today at school I learnt to STAB FOOLS

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Lidl had the same thing only their knives came in a camel stomach.

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#22  Edited By Tylea002

That is fucking hilarious.

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#23  Edited By jmfinamore

And they say American schools are violent.

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#24  Edited By NlGHTCRAWLER

"Made in Portugal with German steel"

SHIT JUST GOT REAL.

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#25  Edited By Dan_CiTi

Tesco is like a TJ Max? or Office Depot/Max? Never heard of it.

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#26  Edited By Tylea002

Tesco is the supermarket. It's like a near-walmart, but not quite as much. ASDA is technically walmart, but over here, it's just a cheaper Tesco. And Sainsbury's is a more expensive Tesco. And then Waitrose is a more expensive Sainsbury's.

Supermarkets. You may have heard of them.

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#27  Edited By BraveToaster

@SamStrife said:

This picture has been posted on the internet for weeks (I saw it like a month ago on 9gag). Not saying that your friend wasn't the person to take it, just that it's been around a long while.

Lol

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#28  Edited By TheDudeOfGaming

If you think about it, this is actually a brilliant move. They know some of the kids get stabby when it's time to go to school again...Wanna kill your classmates? Come to Tesco's, where we have all the knifes you'll ever need!

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#29  Edited By stalefishies

Dear confused Americans: replace 'Tesco' with Walmart.

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#30  Edited By Vexxan

I swear I have seen this picture before.

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#31  Edited By llamaegg

Not to sound like a dick, but President Choice is a Canadian brand, a Canadian brand which belongs to Loblaws which, in turn, is a Canadian company. Tesco isn't part of the Loblaws banner, and I'm pretty sure they do not have any stores in Canada to start with (either that or I've never heard nor seen of them), that means they would have had to gone to a different country to steal and put up those signs.

Still freaking hilarious, and I'm saying that as a Department Manager of a Loblaws store.

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#32  Edited By Lunar_Aura

@RoboRobb said:

Today at school I learnt to STAB FOOLS

Yeah the only SAT's I know are the shirts my homies wear, ya dig?

Fake edit: As long as Tesco's Strawberry Trifle is still delish, they can do no wrong.

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#33  Edited By Mijati

This thread amuses me due to all the confused Americans who seem shocked that there's places that exist that they don't know about.

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#34  Edited By PeasantAbuse

This is the kind of foolishness I expect in Euroland.

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#35  Edited By NegativeCero

Obviously they're sending a message to any would-be bullies. "Mess with me, get shanked."

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#36  Edited By cheesebob

Tesco - "Every little cut helps!"

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#37  Edited By Turambar
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#38  Edited By alternate

@Tylea002 said:

Tesco is the supermarket. It's like a near-walmart, but not quite as much. ASDA is technically walmart, but over here, it's just a cheaper Tesco. And Sainsbury's is a more expensive Tesco. And then Waitrose is a more expensive Sainsbury's.

Supermarkets. You may have heard of them.

lol, fair assessment. Also, Waitrose shoppers go to M&S for their bits at the weekend. You can't do your big shop at M&S, too small.

From what I have experienced of US Walmart - They are a lot bigger stores generally and a little more low rent. They also have a lot worse reputation.

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#39  Edited By J12088

@Mastercheesey said:

I don't know what Tesco is. Is it a not American thing?

It's like the second largest supermarket in the world. It's not an American thing it's a global thing.

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#40  Edited By Turambar

@J12088: There are no Tescos in the US.

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#41  Edited By Sploder

Wouldn't surprise me if this was a pic taken from the Tesco near where I grew up.

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#42  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

That isn't a Tesco. For a start, those are "President's Choice" knives, a brand of loblaw companies limited, a Canadian supermarket company. The POS tickets also look nothing like Tesco's. And Nestea (the stand you see to the right of the knives) is a brand of ice tea not available in the UK. And there is a French translation on the stand, and there's no need for that to be there on a British sign.

Also, that picture has been posted all over the internet for at least a couple of weeks. Probably more.

Also, regardless of whether or not your friend took this picture in a Tesco, posting a random funny image with little text to accompany it is spam. It doesn't promote discussion. Giant Bomb is not Reddit.

I think you see where this is going.