Brand Logos Quiz #2

Yay. Got 16/20 on both quizzes

Mozilla's logo is actually different from Firefox's logo (Mozilla's logo looks like moz://a)

What's wrong with Lego?

Hungry Jacks is owned by Burger King.

They might be similar, but they are not the exact same logo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hungry_Jack%27s.svg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burger_King_logo.svg

Actually, I got At&T both times I did the quiz. For whatever reason its logo seems to register with me whereas Wallmart draws a massive blank. Tiz a fair point on Skoda.

I think you'll find there's quite an active user base for Jetpunk in Djibouti! I am also from Djibouti, it can, and will, be presumed...

USA obv.

Okay then you and/or the OP are merely broadcasting your ignorance, because it's not.

It's usually not called Walmart outside the US though, so it's not really surprising that people would associate the name with the US and not recognise its logo.

That's a different discussion and doesn't make the original comment accurate.

It is to do with the original comment here. I kinda unified the two arguments below, but the brand Walmart is absolutely seen as culturally American by a lot of people, and that's fine and intentional on the part of Walmart. They don't build massive American-style Walmarts all over the world.

People shop in Walmart-owned locations in India or Latin America while at the same time thinking of Walmart as a big, far-away, American thing - no harm done.

I think it's totally fine to include the Walmart logo here BTW, I only stuck my oar in to say that it is legitimately seen as culturally American...

"Broadcasting your ignorance"? Who talks like that on a fun quiz site?

People responding to the other commenters endlessly griping about American businesses not being international in spite of their gripes invariably being wrong do. Is that what you consider fun? Sorry if I spoiled it. If you want to just take and enjoy the quizzes without all the above I'm on board if you can convince everyone else, notably the guy commenting just below. WalMart is a gargantuan international company - the biggest in the world by some measures. Calling it less globally recognized than.. I dunno.. Skoda for one... is indeed ignorant. When similar complaints are made across every quiz in this series one starts to suspect that perhaps they are not made in good faith.

Asda uses a similar logo, too.

The story of how Wal-Mart failed in Germany is quite enjoyable. Poor devils thought they could just smile at Germans without repercussions.

But yes, Wal-Mart has without questions enough standing for a global quiz, I don't even know which other store brand would be more famous the world around.

However, I only missed North Face who I've never heard of but assume are skinning Swedes for profit. Pretty good, there always have to be on or to obscure ones.

I wouldn't be so happy if Walmart failed in my area. Many years ago I had a flat tire and discovered my spare was also flat. I went to a nearby service station and it was still thirty minutes before it closed, but the man said it was too close to closing time to start fixing a tire, even though I was stranded and had young children with me. I had to sit in the car 45 minutes while I waited for my brother to come and rescue us. He drove us to Walmart where they were happy to fix my tire. Walmart does things I don't like, but they employ a lot of people in our town, and they offer 24-hour services that local businesses can't or won't. Also, their prices are affordable. I don't get why people always badmouth them.

Probably because they are exploiting their employees, prohibit unions and are using predatory pricing. And in Europe there are a lot of services that are specialized on situations like the one you described. You would probably just call a mobile mechanic.

Perhaps these quizzes could be improved somewhat by researching what the companies that do business internationally are called in various territories. Wal-Mart, as I pointed out above, actually does do business in the UK. But their stores in the UK are called Asda. Asda could be added as a type-in. On another quiz I think it was pointed out that Mr. Clean is sold in Latin America but is called Senor Limpio there. That could be added as a type-in. I know this would probably take a lot of work, and probably wouldn't stop Algernon from complaining, but it would be a cool update.

In Saudi Arabia I remember noticing that "Tamimi Market" had the same "S" logo as Safeway supermarkets back home- which I thought was odd as there is no "S" anywhere in "Tamimi Market." I at first thought it was maybe coincidence, or maybe another case of trademark infringement which is common overseas. Then I found out that it was the same company, they just adopted a different name in the Saudi Arabian market.

I had the same happen with hungry jacks in Australia when lived there. At first I thought the logo just looked like burger king until I actually ate there one time and noticed that they sold whoppers.

This is a little disingenuous, Walmart doesn't have stores in the UK, they own the chain ASDA. Brits wouldn't look at that Walmart logo and think of ASDA. The recognisable ASDA logo is simply the name written in green caps.

Right. In the same way that I don't have a pair of tan pants, I just own one. That makes total sense.

Have a good night's sleep and drink plenty of water Kal, it'll be OK.

I'm sorry that you feel the way you must feel.

Let's leave the passive aggressive silliness aside - both of us, not just you!

I know you get [often rightly] peeved by people denigrating the USA, but this does not look like one of those cases. Walmart is legitimately seen by many people all over the world as a very US brand, probably mainly because it doesn't operate as Walmart in the vast majority of its international locations. If you shop in an ASDA in the UK or a Despensa Familiar in Nicaragua you'd never see the "sun" logo or the word Walmart, even as you add to their enormous revenue.

Clearly a big part of their international business strategy is not to bustle in and try to Americanify local shopping customs, and it's entirely possible to do all your shopping in a chain owned by Walmart without ever knowing that Walmart existed outside the US - and without ever having seen the Walmart logo.

I admit I was ignorant about all of ASDA's history in the UK prior to being acquired by Wal*Mart, which operated for 50 years before getting bought out in 1999. Even if they've been using part of the same logo more recently.

My last comment, I know probably reads as passive aggressive, but I edited and rewrote it probably 12 times, removing any true aggression passive or otherwise, before settling on that and it's actually sincere. I know that comments like the one just before it I was responding to come from a place of pain. I'm not saying I'm better. But I do wish people would stop. I've been getting steadily more and more misanthropic since 2015 and I'm not sure how much more of the Internet I can take before I just stop interacting with everyone completely.

Anyway, like I said, I'm genuinely sorry if you feel annoyed or frustrated or bitter or defensive or anything else similar, and also if I in any way contributed to that.

You could try my strategy for dealing with that, which was to replace all my online usernames with my real name. It calms me down no end tbh.

And I'm sure one day Walmart will be as globally recognised as Beats by Dre :)

That's not it. If you poke around enough you will find my real name and links to social media, etc, on this site.