As I drive around town, a particular tattoo parlour has caught my eye a few times. The reason is that, in addition to their other selling points listed, their sign outside advertises them as being the cleanest shop in BC.
I already have absolutely no desire to get a tattoo. Even if you offered to pay me I would still refuse (well, unless it was a very large sum of money, and it would need to be a very small tattoo somewhere like my ankle). And seeing a sign like that reduces that desire even further, if that was even possible. I mean, what kind of places advertise how clean they are? That's pretty pathetic if one of their drawing points is that they're clean.
I'm not saying it's not a good thing that this tattoo parlour is clean, just that it reflects poorly on the industry as a whole when being clean is advertised as a benefit of this particular shop. Imagine if restaurants put signs outside saying, “Eat here. Our kitchen is clean!” Or butcher shops advertising, “Our butchers still have all their fingers!”