Thread: Sears in Riverside, CA

Originally Posted by Skip

I'll tell you what is really anoying. All around the 32nd Street Naval Base in San Diego, most of the billboards are in Spanish.

R/ Skip

grhhhhh
Do you think they'd get the message if that thing accidentally caught on fire? Bud is America's beer, for Gods sake

One thing I noticed in Ca. is, you can find signs in English covered in grafitti, but not any signs in Spanish, except for the businesses that had their signs made made from grafitti.
At least that's what I noticed when I lived there.

Thank God I shop on the Internet! I had no clue that was going on in actual stores.

To me, what is scary about that is what if it was an emergency alert? or a lost kid alert?

Was the announcement also translated to English?

It seems most of the billboards around my town are in a different language. I called Pizza Hut last week and while I was on hold they played a promo in English and then in another language -back and forth like that. Here's a gritty display in my hometown...

I spent a fair amount of time in J.C. Penny in the Tucson Mall on Saturday and most of their announcements were in Spanish too.

IIRC, the head of La Raza sits on the Sears BOD. I quit shopping there for that reason.

I do not frequent Walmart much these days, but I have noticed that there is no more announcements, video displays etc in spanish. Used to be you had to listen to that crap the hole time you were in there. Guess enough people around here complained maybe? They also had big mexican flags draped across the ceiling, but no more of that either. (I had a very sparky conversation with the mgr about that one myself..) I only visit Walmart when it is absolutely the last place to get what I need.

In November I bought bedroom furniture from Penny's. Two Hispanic gentlemen delivered the furniture. One spoke no English the other spoke broken English. They were very polite and nice but the problem was they could not read English. On my Armoire there was a big tag that read Caution do not open doors until you remove the packing screw. Here they were tugging and trying to force the door open. I had to tell them to leave everything alone and I signed the invoice saying I didn't want their help.

In December I got furious over the Spanish coming over the PA system, so I called the manager and let him have it. He was very nice and told me it was a corporate decision to please call them and let them no how I felt. At that time I told him about my delivery, I told him I had more furniture being delivered the next day and I was ready to cancel. Surprisingly the next day my furniture was delivered by two Americans sporting American flag emblems on their sleeves.

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

In November I bought bedroom furniture from Penny's. Two Hispanic gentlemen delivered the furniture. One spoke no English the other spoke broken English. They were very polite and nice but the problem was they could not read English. On my Armoire there was a big tag that read Caution do not open doors until you remove the packing screw. Here they were tugging and trying to force the door open. I had to tell them to leave everything alone and I signed the invoice saying I didn't want their help.

In December I got furious over the Spanish coming over the PA system, so I called the manager and let him have it. He was very nice and told me it was a corporate decision to please call them and let them no how I felt. At that time I told him about my delivery, I told him I had more furniture being delivered the next day and I was ready to cancel. Surprisingly the next day my furniture was delivered by two Americans sporting American flag emblems on their sleeves.