If last year's event is any guide, there will be massive demand for the cards, which advertise sales on everything from silk underwear to table salt. Thousands of people lined up around the block in March 2014 for a chance to snag one of several thousand signs.
Prices ranged from $1-100 and shoppers were limited to a maximum of three purchases. All proceeds went to Victim Services Toronto.
Every one of the discount store's famous signs is created by a pair of in-house painters, Wayne Reuben and Doug Kerr. Between them they produce 70 to 80 signs every day, all of them in the store's own font, called "Slash."
Honest Ed's is due to close in December 2016 to make way for a housing and retail development.
Chris Bateman is a staff writer at blogTO. Follow him on Twitter at @chrisbateman.
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