"Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com> wrote in message

> I suppose the next thing they are going to do is start greeting the
> customers in English, or some combination of Japanese and English. That
> will be even harder to get used to. "Harou-Konnichiwa!" Grrr.

That's like that in Taiwan. The first time I thought that was only for me
(touristic greetings), then saw they did it for others. A person explained
me that was decided by the combini chain owners and maybe next month they'll
say "hola que tal" or "salamalekum".

CC