Sgrìobh gu Marks and Spencers – Write to M&S - talking tills gun Ghàidhlig/without Gaelic
Gus Gàidhlig cluinntinn mar thagradh air na ‘talking tills’ aca.
To get Gaelic as a choice on their talking tills
Leugh mu a dheidhinn air an duilleag Highland News seo
Read more about this on this Highland News Page
http://www.highland-news.co.uk/news/ful ... king_tills
Seo duilleag Marks and Spencer far a bheil cothrom dhut beachd a thoirt dhaibh
Heres’ an M&S page where you can give them your opinion.
https://www.marksandspencer.com/gp/cont ... Brand=core
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I heard today that your firm is willing to consider installing Gaidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) as a language of your "talking tills" at your shop in Inverness and possibly elsewhere in Scotland if there is demand.
As a Gaelic speaking regular but infrequent customer ( my family makes between two and four trips per year from the West Coast to Inverness for a "Big Shop"), I personally am more inclined to spend money, "The Gaelic Pound" if you like! at businesses that offer me some level of service through the language. You may wish to consider installation of Gaidhlig on your talking tills as entry level to this aspect of taladh nan luchd cheannaich (customer encouragement?).
I spent most of last year working in Eire, while I was there Bank of Ireland rolled out a Gaelic language option on its cash machines installed in retail shops. I noticed after a while that I was tending day to day to use the shops/petrol stations with these machines more than the shops with cash machines that didn't have the Gaelic option.
I would be interested to hear when and in what stores you intend to provide this service.
Agus seo beachdan eile air nochdadh air larach HN - a mhòr chuid aca taiceil!
Cuideag
I'd like to see a bit more Gaelic around the shops in Inverness like the bilingual signs up in the Crown Vets practice for example. Let's celebrate our culture and make Inverness more interesting rather than simply a carbon copy of every other souless big town in Britain !
Eliza
Many moons ago, when I started in secondry school (the I.R.A), I and several other pupils wanted to learn Gaelic instead of French-which we reckoned would be of little use to us. We were impolitely informed that since we were NOT native speakers we could NOT study Gaelic. Shame on the dunderheids of the time sitting in their office. A lost opportunity which resulted in not only many pupils not learning a language of their country, but no doubt a large number of offspring and also theirs too.And NOW they panic.
3 days ago, 17:08:05
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Bryan
I think its a shame that there are other countries languages already in the tills, but people who have been born in the this country, that speak gaelic don't have the option of the till speaking Gaelic to help them shop. Yet again instead of putting people in this country first, they put other nationalities first. Its about time this country puts its people first before others.
Ps - i dont speak gaelic.
3 days ago, 18:24:51
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Hamish Macleod of Inverness
For god sake Gaelic speakers can also speak and read English. I mean come on how many are going to struggle becuase the till does not have Gaelic. The attendant on the regular till speaks English not Gaelic, yeah? Its the same with the road signs. Waste of our money. Chan eil fhios agam
3 days ago, 20:05:16
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Glasgow Lady
Hamish....it would hardly be your money. M&S would be footing the bill and Gaelic speakers also spend their ill-gotten-gains there too. I don't speak Gaelic but that is only because I never had the option of learning it. Yes Gaelic speakers speak English, but so to Polish people and Germans and French etc. So if that's your argument perhaps there should be nothing other than the Queens English eh?
Well I reckon it would be lovely to see things like this introduced to society. Future generations could have the options to have something the rest of the world has - a language of their own - a language to be proud of. Nae harm in that.
The Gaels seemed to be damnded if they do or don't....they are either being labled 'stuck in the olden days' and then when they try and move with the times they are held back by ignorant people who don't have the faintest understanding of what Gaelic means to them, how they use it every day life and how much effort they put in to keeping this beautiful part of Scottish culture alive.
Keep goign Gaelic speakers!!!!!
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From: Retail Customer Services <RetailCustomer>
Dear <treaclemine>
Thank you for your email.
I am sorry you feel disappointed that we do not have Gaelic on our tills. All of our UK self service tills offer our customers a choice of six language options these include: English, French, German, Spanish, Welsh and Polish.
We've not seen any customer demand for Gaelic, now the request has been raised it is something we will look into.
Thank you again.
Kind Regards.
Steven Collinson
Retail Customer Services
0845 302 1234
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Dear <treaclemine>
Thank you for your email.
I am sorry you feel disappointed that we do not have Gaelic on our tills. All of our UK self service tills offer our customers a choice of six language options these include: English, French, German, Spanish, Welsh and Polish.
We've not seen any customer demand for Gaelic, now the request has been raised it is something we will look into.
Thank you again.
Kind Regards.
Steven Collinson
Retail Customer Services
0845 302 1234
P Consider the environment - do you really need to print this email?