What’s in a name? Tesco Lotus in Thailand rebrands to “Lotus’s” (no, really)

[GinBoy2]

On 2/17/2021 at 6:50 AM, Oxx said:

 

Forum rule #11:  You will not post slurs, degrading or overly negative comments directed towards ... Thai people or any other group.

Please don't be a vile, racist ignorant bigot - at least in public.

What the Hell are you talking about?

 

The average Thai doesn't read English, they see the letters, but they aren't reading it.

 

Understanding that fact is racist? Oh for God sake get over yourself

[onebir]

On 2/16/2021 at 6:01 AM, webfact said:

Apparently the lowercase ‘s’ at the end of “Lotus’s” stands for “smart”:

 

Simple 

Motivate

Agile

Responsible

Transformative and Sustainability

What, not SEXY???

[JensenZ]

On 2/16/2021 at 11:16 AM, Bkk Brian said:

C.P. monopolizing Thailand one leap at a time. Even have a healthy stake in the Chinese covid vaccine business with its first shipments to Thailand due now.

Welcome to Thailand, the world of monopolies and dictatorships... however life in most Western countries is not much better or possibly even worse.  

[GinBoy2]

20 hours ago, JensenZ said:

Welcome to Thailand, the world of monopolies and dictatorships... however life in most Western countries is not much better or possibly even worse.  

Well it is true that throughout the capitalist world power is always concentrated in a few large corporations.

Thailand is somewhat strange in the fact that power is concentrated in companies that can be counted on one hand

[JensenZ]

On 2/23/2021 at 5:39 AM, GinBoy2 said:

Well it is true that throughout the capitalist world power is always concentrated in a few large corporations.

Thailand is somewhat strange in the fact that power is concentrated in companies that can be counted on one hand

Most of the world's biggest companies are global and Thailand does it share to keep these companies big...

 

eg. Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Alibaba are all from the top-10 list.

[MaiDong]

On 2/16/2021 at 5:33 AM, KannikaP said:

LOTUS would have been fine. Or Smart LOTUS. Not the silly one they have gone for. Luckily most Thais will not know what it says anyway, they could have put a picture of a frog or buffalo or Hello Kitty for them instead.

I'm a bit late to the party, but I rather like the happy pigs standing there in chef('s's') outfits cutting up and happily eating happy pigs ????

[Mr Meeseeks]

On 2/22/2021 at 8:53 AM, JensenZ said:

Welcome to Thailand, the world of monopolies and dictatorships... however life in most Western countries is not much better or possibly even worse.  

Standard of living in the West is considerably higher than in Thailand, for the majority.