I’ve seen these all over Europe. Some have simple images of the cross flashing, some have windows screensaver esque animations, and some have 3d renders of various things rotating in all sorts of ways. Why is that? Wouldn’t a simple green cross be enough to get the point across, or do they need to be overly verbose? Here’s the full video instead of a gif

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It’s not enough that they’re cross. They want you to be cross too!

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Must be a continental thing. Here in noggieland we have a simple illuminated green cross.

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Wait! That’s a new one for me, what’s noggieland?

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Norway

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Can’t really contribute as in Germany most pharmacy signs are pretty static and look kind of like this: https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/06/30/20/59/pharmacy-380780_640.jpg

But I also wonder why there’s so many pharmacies in France. In almost any city I’ve been to it’s hard to not have a green flashing cross in sight.

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The French are huge fans of medicine.

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But I also wonder why there’s so many pharmacies in France. In almost any city I’ve been to it’s hard to not have a green flashing cross in sight.

French pharmacies cannot open where they want, there is a limit in how many pharmacy a city can have, on the flip coin, it means that they are relatively evenly spread out across the country, and that even in the so called empty diagonal you`ll find a pharmacy.

Physician do not have this restriction, so many of them go to either Paris or the French riviera, while in rural area in the Northern half, you struggle to find a doctor.

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I’m pretty sure that’s just kind of a tradition, I don’t remember exactly tho

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I don’t think we have those in the US at all.

Anyways it’s probably like that because it’s eye-catching. Eg it’s an ad

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Depends where you’re at in the US. In oregon this symbol is used for cannabis dispensaries, meaning it is extremely common.

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