1 example...Walmart....all their no name house products are dual language labeled....English/ Spanish....Why? Are they pushing duality? Or just good customer service?
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1 example...Walmart....all their no name house products are dual language labeled....English/ Spanish....Why? Are they pushing duality? Or just good customer service?
BTW..can the RANT rule really be applied to the Soapbox?
When one gets up on a soapbox..it is usually their own rant/opinion on things in the first place.....
So I would say...IMO the Rant rule does NOT apply here....
When one gets up on a soapbox..it is usually their own rant/opinion on things in the first place.....
So I would say...IMO the Rant rule does NOT apply here....
witness23
Veteran Expediter
In the case of Walmart it is due to products/packaging being made in multiple countries. In the case of government it is done to drive divides or wedges between people. Much like "protected classes" or "groups" are. Same with class envy or warfare. Divided people can be controlled. Unified people cannot.
It is called smart. There are more and more "international foods" sections in American stores of late. A good trend. Take advantage of a market and even create markets that way.
Green beans are "International Foods"??? LOL
Yes, they came from Brazil.
ChrisGa23
Expert Expediter
When I worked shipping/receiving/warehouse for almost 6 years you would be surprised at the amount of drivers that barley speak English. I would say 4 out of 10 drivers that came in spoke little English. When they would talk English it sounded like jibberish. There was alot of times when we would have to ask the driver for something like drop their trailer or wait a few minutes for a door to be open that they didnt understand a word I was saying alot of times. Most were Mexican or Russian and Arab. I dont see how they ever got a CDL.
UncleTed
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That's águila pasar to you.
Wouldn't surprise me - I keep getting stuck waiting in line behind them as they try to answer the clerk's questions about the name of their carrier, truck number, etc....
I don't think they should have a CDL, as understanding English [that's what all road signs and every BOL I've seen use] is a necessary part of the job.
The word 'redundant' is vital, too - even the least intellectually gifted gets it after 40 or 50 repetitions.
Of coure the Rant rule applies in the soapbox. Just because you call something a "rant" doesn't make it one, anymore than someone posting a rant and then claiming it's not doesn't make it any less of a rant. It has to fit the criteria for being a rant.
greg334
Veteran Expediter
I went to make a pickup a few months back at a food distribution place and the dock manager had a cure for this issue seeing that a lot of trucks came in from Canada and Mexico - he had flash cards made for the 'requests' he was making to the driver. I saw it in action, the girl at the window would show a card to a driver who couldn't speak good english to open their doors and back up into the dock or to show her ID or what ever. It slowed the operation down a bit but nothing like trying to explain to someone who doesn't want to try to understand.
To suddenly give a long speech that usually results in
rambling and repeating of nonsense.
I shall now tell you how awful rants are, they are the bain of humans. If rants were plentiful humans would become extinct! Extinct I say!!
Humans also need to pick cherries with automated cherry pickers as this results in more plentiful harvests resulting in more people whos brains have been nourished by cherries and intelligent cherry nourished people are less likely to rant than those raised on blueberry farms, because they are subjected to blueberry fumes, and they are toxic, like non-toxic glue. Made of horse hooves. Horses can also help prevent rants as you cannot rant while riding a horse and you can't ride a horse if there aren't horses because they have all been made into non-toxic glue. Do you understand rants now?
Aitkinism
based on a gentleman known to his pals as mr Neil Aitkin. he more often than not goes off on a tangent and rants about the U.S government and all the other totalitrian states in the modern world, 'new imperialist' countries to use a buzz word see New imperilisim also these same countries are also branded 'the bullies of the world' he speaks of all the wrong and evil that all these governments do to all humanity, he is a more angry version of Bill Hicks.
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Guess have to call LOS Neil now....LOL
Brisco
Expert Expediter
Hell....just to add my 2 cents again.......
Stopped by MCDONALDS in RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS this morning to grab my Saturday morning Sausage Biscuit & Large Coke and it felt like I was in Mexico.
3 Mexicans waiting in line, spoke in mexican when placing their order, was serviced by Mexicans speaking mexican back to them during their transaction. Employess in back and at counter all speaking mexican amongst each other. People sitting at tables eating their breakfast all of mexican origins. 3 Mexican guys at table near counter carrying on a conversation in mexican. TV in dining area was on the Telemundo Channel.......
Only thing that gave me a feeling that I was in America was the menu on the wall was still in English and the Mexican Lady behind the counter spoke to me in English.
Oh Well.....what can ya do about it?
Stopped by MCDONALDS in RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS this morning to grab my Saturday morning Sausage Biscuit & Large Coke and it felt like I was in Mexico.
3 Mexicans waiting in line, spoke in mexican when placing their order, was serviced by Mexicans speaking mexican back to them during their transaction. Employess in back and at counter all speaking mexican amongst each other. People sitting at tables eating their breakfast all of mexican origins. 3 Mexican guys at table near counter carrying on a conversation in mexican. TV in dining area was on the Telemundo Channel.......
Only thing that gave me a feeling that I was in America was the menu on the wall was still in English and the Mexican Lady behind the counter spoke to me in English.
Oh Well.....what can ya do about it?