So as Christmas approaches people and companies now have to 'deal with' the uncomfortable reality that SOME of us like, and celebrate Christmas.

To that end, Starbucks has chosen to remove all vestiges of Christmas from its cups, with its VP Jeffrey Fields saying "it wanted to usher in the holidays with a purity of design that welcomes all our stories."

What the what? It's a BLANK CUP you moron, there is NO STORY on it and that's kinda the frickin' point here!!!! How did you become the VP there, and are there other such positions that I can apply for there????

Starbucks Christmas cups have previously featured reindeer, ornaments, snowflakes, and other seasonal symbols. So I can only assume in an effort to avoid their cafes from being suicide bombed, they have opted for a non-Christmas motif. Of course, no one in the Starbucks marketing department seemed to realize that snowflakes, reindeer, and ornaments are NOT RELIGIOUS images, so I would be curious to know whose story WASN'T being told by the previous cups?

Since the cups are currently blank, I suggest you provide your name to the barrista as "Merry Christmas" and make them call you at least twice before collecting your drink. Oh and even better, some barristas will refuse the name, or ask you for ID. Make up a fake business card for your current job, with your name as Mhery Khristmas just in case they try to call you on it. Say your Serbian or Croation. Takes 2 mins with your laser printer or ink jet. Keep your head down in your phone or paper so they can't just make eye contact to invite you over to get your coffee and they must say the name out loud.

Of course the other option would be to take your coffee needs elsewhere, and let them know Christmas matters to you because you voted with your dollars.

I dont get the infatuation with Starbucks.....not from you OP...just in general....but I dont get yuppies either....so theres that.
Sounds to me luke they shoulda kept the snowflake cups though....they seem to be a buncha flakes.

Max Havelaar-Compliant Bad Coffee!

It amazes me what makes the news and those that want to boycott a business on matter like this..

So go ahead and boycott them while you are think about what they did for the Vets.....

"Starbucks CEO To Donate $30 Million To Support PTSD Research For Veterans"

But oh no lets have pretty cups that we can throw away and put more trash in our landfills~~

Hmmmm. You know, I'm checking my post and I don't see myself calling on Starbucks to end any charitable donations its providing. I'm just simply calling them out on their BS reason for making the change to coffee cups.

The linguistic hoop jumping required to come up with a sound byte for explaining the policy usually belies the total crap behind making the decision. The harder you have to work to explain it, and the increasingly obtuse language you do it with, usually sets off the BS detector in people.

If they had simply said "Well look, a lot of people think we're promoting a Christian holiday, and they don't like that. So, we've decided to stop with the snowflakes and reindeer, and just have a blank cup so no one gets mad." It's blunt, honest, and to the point. You can decide if you like the reason or not, and spend accordingly. But trying to tell me that a blank coffee cup 'allows us all to tell our stories'??? Puhleese.

Good on Starbucks for giving $30 million to a worthy program. I fail to see the connection however between their generosity and the cups. They can donate money to whomever they want. PTSD is a very real and prominent topic in the news these days. They are trying to do some good, and well done to them for providing the bucks. If you think some people not buying a couple half caf/decaf, soy milk, no foam, chocolate sprinkles,in a double cup puts this $30 million donation in jeopardy, then you're free to buy a couple more yourself and keep Starbucks from going under. Just because a company is nice doesn't mean it can't also on occasion be stupid.

Insofar as putting MORE trash in the landfills with these 'pretty' cups, I'm confident the company was going to be handing out cups anyway. Adorned with snowflakes or not, the landfills wouldn't be more adversely affected than they are now. Maybe the next time you are in Starbucks, you could ask them to display larger signs about recycling the cups?

Just sayin'...

There ya go, Fixed it! Now we celebrate Communism too!

Nicely done!

Surely, if there are "Liquor in the front, Poker in the rear" beer can koozies, there has to be Christmas coffee cup koozies

Starbucks isn't the Grinch. It isn't trying to steal Christmas.
It's called "minimalist design". Google it.

just like socialist Canada?

Precisely! Here Moe, start your Texan petition for this logo?

lol, sorry, i don't like starbucks at all...too liberal for me, and the coffee sucks...

Not a single mass shooting in Starbucks? Gun Free zones work!

try again

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/march99/starbucks070897.htm

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/man-shot-head-front-kent-starbucks/nggJ3/

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/double-shooting-at-atlanta-starbucks-shooter-stake/nD9pS/

need i go on?

Just saying what does it really matter why they stopped the design? The company can decide what they do when they do it.. The way I heard it was due to the extra cost for the designs on all those cups that people only throw away anyway..

I mean are they only going there for the design on the cups at Christmas time?? If so they need to figure out what is wrong with that thought..

Myself I don't go to Starbucks but that is due to I will not pay the prices.. But have a few times when nothing else was around and will admit I enjoy it..


If it was all cause they don't honor Christmas which has only gotten to do with money anymore and not the real reason. The simple solution is don't buy from them.. But when some do that they should look at the stores they buy from as well..

Times are changing ... Sounds like to me some of the Christians feel that everyone has to believe their way or they will no longer support them.. And yes I did say some for I was raised a Baptist but was not lead to believe that everyone has to believe as I do or I will no longer have anything to do with them.. just saying~~

I think if those that are boycotting something put that much effort in something good like boycotting real life problems maybe there could be a difference made in this world where it is needed.

Well for a 'minimalist design' they managed to slap their logo feces right there in the middle of the cup for everyone to see. Since minimalist design can mean being stripped to only the essentials, does the logo even have to be on the cup?

Do they think you forgot where you got your coffee, and have to be reminded where you paid $5 for it, and $6 for your juice?

Maybe JUST the red cup and white lid could have been the 'bold statement' Starbucks wanted to make eschewing ALL ties with the consumerism of the holiday season!

After all, the minimum you need is the cup and the lid to keep it from spilling. Even the lid is superfluous if you just stand there and drink your coffee.

i don't think it's about people thinking everyone needs to be like them, i think it's about lots of people are tired of the changes just to make a profit, and the fact that people born here are being pushed aside for people that weren't born here... not everyone likes the changes being made for the sake of a profit...

Go ahead, by all means... Could you at least read the stories before posting em first?


Wash.-A police source at the scene said detectives were working "a solid lead" and examining whether a former employee might be involved. "We are definitely checking that out," he said.

Wash. — A woman has turned herself in at the Tacoma Police Department in the shooting of a man outside a Kent Starbucks.

-Atlanta, Atlanta city attorney Clifford Hardwick injured. Witnesses said the shooting was targeted at Hardwick. Starbucks customer Karmen Sneed has no doubt Hardwick was the intended victim.

don't try your liberal tactics with me, much better liberals have tried and failed... you said NO mass shootings at starbucks, i proved you wrong... nothing else to discuss

You're like a one legged dude in an azz kicking competition


Puck Starbucks! Go to Timmies for Christmas cheer instead!