False advertising! Baffled shoppers share packaging fails that made them double-take

Product designers have a difficult job in getting the attention of consumers – and sometimes they need to think outside of the box so their items stand out from the crowd.

This can result in unusual, eye-grabbing packaging for items on the shelves of shops around the world – but some products grab shoppers’ attention for all the wrong reasons.

People from around the world have shared some of the weirdest packaging they have spotted in stores and online, which have been collated into a gallery by ranker.com. 

Some of the strangest examples include a Wonder Woman 3 in 1 body wash, shampoo and conditioner – but to get the product out of the can, the superhero ‘foams at the mouth’.

Elsewhere in the UK, a shopper did a double-take after looking at a carton of buttermilk which featured an unusual design that could have been mistaken for a phallic symbol. 

And in an even weirder turn of events, one shopper stumbled across a toy gun which was marketed for children as a ‘musical instrument’.

Over in Sweden, someone appeared to mix up their household pets as a photo frame labelled with ‘my dog’ featured a snap of a suspiciously feline-looking creature. 

And another mix-up occurred in the world of superheroes when Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear was marketed as a character from Marvel’s Avengers. 

Here FEMAIL takes a look at some of the most head-turning packaging fails…