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There's a funny anecdote about Walmart trying to open stores here in Germany, and when the business eventually failed, apparently one of the reasons was that Ge
by Barrin92 2y ago
There's a funny anecdote about Walmart trying to open stores here in Germany, and when the business eventually failed, apparently one of the reasons was that German customers were routinely freaked out by the completely fake smiling staff and the weird company motivational chants in the morning.
When you see the sort of pearly white stereotypical American diner smile almost everyone would associate it with insincerity and fakeness or gullibility.
Also as a side note, that may be a pretty good benchmark for how clever AIs are. How many systems can figure out how the "hide the pain Harold" type of image is actually perceived by people?
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoWorked for Lidl in Germany in spite of much fussing over it at the time of introduction. Over a decade ago, I think? The tacky fake smile and greeting at the cashiers, they didn't have to do the chanting. Though that have seemed to calmed down somehow, from my memories of my more recent trips to the REICH.