Assembly instructions... why only pictures?

Then again my owners manual for my 2021 Nissan is like 450 pages long with 4 pages defining what exactly the "danger" pictogram means. And I still can't get the radio to work the way I want.

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Manufacturers getting too many calls on their help lines from illiterate people so they figured cartoons would minimize that???

You mean "graphic novels"?

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Then again my owners manual for my 2021 Nissan is like 450 pages long with 4 pages defining what exactly the "danger" pictogram means. And I still can't get the radio to work the way I want.

The manual for my 2021 Ford Bronco Sport is 466 pages long.

Unbelievable. I can get the radio to work the way I want, though, but it took me a month to figure out all the driver side controls.

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It was a while ago, but I don't remember any Walmarts there. At times, we called it "the land of no hay.

Walmart/Costco dominates the market here. They must have bought up other food chains like Amigos and Famcoop because both those chains use Walmart self checkout/payment processing machines and there's a lot of the same brands found at Walmart that can be had in those stores. Today I think I saw someone in Amigos wearing a Walmart vest.

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It was a while ago, but I don't remember any Walmarts there. At times, we called it "the land of no hay.
Walmart/Costco dominates the market here. They must have bought up other food chains like Amigos and Famcoop because both those chains use Walmart self checkout/payment processing machines and there's a lot of the same brands found at Walmart that can be had in those stores. Today I think I saw someone in Amigos wearing a Walmart vest.

As I said, it was quite a while ago, but I remember that when I lived there the major player in grocery supermarkets was the Pueblo chain.

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Pictograph assembly instructions like you see with IKEA products is done so they can print ONE assembly manual instead of having to print them in numerous languages for all the countries these products are sold in.

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Who reads Assembly destructions?

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This is how they 'fixed' all the internet post about the poor translations into English by some Chinese 'interpreter'

The craziest one is the instructions that come with a DJI drone... it is a 4 page 'booklet' of pictures ... the book is 2"x3". First you need a magnifying glass to start and try to determine what the pictures mean.

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Pictograph assembly instructions like you see with IKEA products is done so they can print ONE assembly manual instead of having to print them in numerous languages for all the countries these products are sold in.

This. I recently bought a Braun electric shaver. The English instructions were 8 pages long. They were duplicated into 13 other languages and 125 pages. I often remove the non-English pages of manuals since I don't want or need them.

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