Spanish music at Sportsman Warehouse in Springs

[Jumpstart]

I don't know what signs you mean. Oh, how everything is bi-lingual? It's the same at every large store and has to do with generating business. If Home Depot doesn't have bi-lingual signs, but Lowes does, guess who gets all of that market? No one should be offended by bi-lingual signs. They aren't mandatory, and the company chooses to spend the money making them, because they know that they'll make more than the cost back. That is just smart business, and anyone who wants to make money should follow suit. It's not Home Depot and Walmart's fault that people don't learn English, and removing those signs will do nothing to encourage people to learn the language, but it will potentially clog up the isles and counteract many of the other things businesses do to streamline their stores.

Sounds like your trying do do some side stepping. You aren't telling anyone anything they don't already know. Why are signs in Spanish "good business" when the illegal immigration topic is so contentious? Why have signs in Spanish in areas where no one or a miniscule few understand it? Why are signs in Spanish "necessary" now, but weren't 10 to 15 years ago and prior? I'm just being rhetorical. I know the answer, I just want to see who else does and who else wants to pretend they don't.

[Irving]

Well, first of all, I can't flat out deny that people don't cater to illegals. I wish it weren't true, but it is.

As to why there are signs that are bilingual where people don't even hardly speak Spanish, is the same reason that there is braille on drive up atm machines. Just that it cuts costs to produce only one style of button, and use it in all machines, than to pay for two different molds.

Check the differences in population percentages of Hispanics now and what they were 15 years ago, and you'll likely get your answer about why it is apparently important now, and not then. By the way, I know you know, but you asked and called me on it, so I felt like I had to answer anyway.

[Jumpstart]

Well, first of all, I can't flat out deny that people don't cater to illegals. I wish it weren't true, but it is.

As to why there are signs that are bilingual where people don't even hardly speak Spanish, is the same reason that there is braille on drive up atm machines. Just that it cuts costs to produce only one style of button, and use it in all machines, than to pay for two different molds.

Check the differences in population percentages of Hispanics now and what they were 15 years ago, and you'll likely get your answer about why it is apparently important now, and not then. By the way, I know you know, but you asked and called me on it, so I felt like I had to answer anyway.

So I guess we are back to catering to illegal aliens theme. I think a monoligual Spanish speaker can look at a can a paint and read "paint" and understand what it is, now and 20 years ago. As for printing signs, it is easier and cheaper to omit a second set of printing, one would think.
Oh btw, the State of New Mexico prints all of their legal documents/ballots in Spanish as well as English. I thought one had to be citizen to vote, and subsequently to get citizenship, have a working knowledge of English. Not anymore.