- If Fred Meyer intended for the signs to be pastel, why would this one not match?
- If they faded over time, why would this be the only one that didn't fade? Sure, it faces a different direction from the rest of them, but there are no obvious natural light sources that would cause the others to fade, except for the one on the front of the produce island since that one does face the entrance doors.
I'm still leaning towards them just being faded, since the colors are so ugly and unappetizing, but who really knows.
If the signs did fade, which is entirely plausible, it's interesting that the green background did not fade on those signs with the muted colors. Of course, that does not mean anything as perhaps the paint used on those signs was different. I don't know!
ReplyDeleteI showed these photos to a fellow Houston retail enthusiast who used to work as a professional sign printer. His thoughts are that the signs with the muted colors probably did fade, but it's also a possibility that due to printing quirks that do sometimes happen, it's possible that the actual product came out with different colors than what was envisioned on the computer. Perhaps these signs came out wrong, but maybe Fred Meyer decided to use them anyway. It seems unlikely that a major retailer like Fred Meyer would accept signs that had issues, but who knows!
DeleteWith the way these signs are made, I suspect the background color is a different material than the printed decor part, but who knows.
DeleteI hadn't even thought of this being a construction/manufacturing defect! I agree that it doesn't seem super likely, but it's really hard to say what's going on here.
Yeah, I still lean toward faded as well.
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