Kroger is the second largest grocery retailer in the United States, by volume. They pride themselves on selling “afforable” food and supporting their “communites” through Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign.

#22 on the 2009 Forbes 500 list, Kroger’s yearly revenue amounts to no less than 70.23 billion dollars. Undoubtedly, the 126-year-old company is doing something right. After all, "Right Store, Right Price,” they praise.

Wrong, however, is their website’s spelling of illnesses, the plural form of illness. For words ending in sh, ch, ss, x, and z, add “es”. Not s, and not an apostrophe. Try sounding out the word “illnesses” as it is appears on the Kroger website. Illness...s.

Sssssorry, but you sssssound like a sssssnake.

Here are two of a possible 47 errors:

afforable Suggestions: affordable, adorable, affable, favorable, affabler
(appears 1 times)

illnesss Suggestions: illness's, illness, illnesses, oiliness's, oiliness
(appears 1 times)

Cardinal Health is a global healthcare company, serving hospitals, medical suppliers, retains chains, and surgery centres around the world.

Fair enough; their focus is probably medically oriented, as they promise their customers to make healthcare safer and more productive.

But with 97.3 billion dollars and 400 thousand employees floating around, you’d think someone would put those billion bucks to use. The website could certainly use some “susbstance” …in the spelling department, to be “specifi” (Big surprise!).

Here are two of a possible 166 errors:

catagory Suggestions: category, Calgary, Tagore, category's, cattery
 (appears 1 times) 

distrubition Suggestions: distribution, distributions, distributing, destruction, distraction
 (appears 1 times)

Verizon Wireless is America’s largest, most reliable wireless network. Phones always come with a 30 day Satisfaction Guarantee. High Speed Internet comes with a “Price Guarantee.” Purchase any product, in fact, and you are given a “Worry Free Guarantee.” Gee, Verizon certainly loves to guarantee.

But there is one thing that this $40 billion company can’t guarantee…you guessed it—correct spelling. Indeed, the “acountability” of their proofreading skills is quite questionable…

Here are two of a possible 137 errors:

acountability Suggestions: accountability, countability, accountability's, unaccountability
 (appears 1 times)

locaiton Suggestions: location, locating, locution, lactation, ligation
 (appears 1 times)

Now this is more like it, good, genuine errors on large corporate web sites.

I'm interested as to how many people sign up for McKesson's mangement program... you know, for treating mange?

It must be fairly popular as this program can be found on six separate pages on their site.

Which is interesting because six is the number of personalities I've been told I have...

Which I disagree with.

"And so do I."

Here are two of a possible 457 errors:

Mangement Suggestions: Management, Managements, Management's
 (appears 6 times)

softwae Suggestions: software, softer, soften, softies, soft
 (appears 4 times)

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International Business Machines, or what you and I would refer to as IBM have a lot of proprietary technical jargon on their site, which I could filter out if I could be bothered - but it sounds better saying they have a possible 260 typos rather than saying they 5 likely errors and 255 words which IBM probably made up.

I mean, what the heck is a 'gloar' anyway?

Even taking that into account, a company at the forefront of technology should be able to avoid typos, right?

Well, if you're a regular reader of this blog then you'll know the answer to that.

Here are two of a possible 260 errors:

infrastracture Suggestions: infrastructure, infrastructures, infrastructure's, infrastructural
 (appears 1 times)

upgradet Suggestions: upgraded, upgrade, upgrades, ungraded
 (appears 1 times)

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