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Puck Starbucks! Go to Timmies for Christmas cheer instead!

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

"The company, however, retains that their cups were meant to be a blank canvas for customers to create their own stories, inspired by the doodles and designs that customers have drawn on white cups for years.

"In the past, we have told stories with our holiday cups designs," Jeffrey Fields, Starbucks vice president of Design & Content, said in a statement. "This year we wanted to usher in the holidays with a purity of design that welcomes all of our stories."
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/09/starbucks-holiday-red-cup-brews-controversy-on-social-media.html

"Josua Feuerstein, an Arizona-based evangelist, posted a Facebook video that has been viewed 12 million times by Monday morning that lamented the lack of a Christian message on the red cups with traditional green logo.

"Do you realize that Starbucks wanted to take Christ and Christmas off of their brand-new cups?" Feuerstein asked. "That's why they're just plain red."

...Starbucks said it has adopted holiday designs since 1997, this year with a bright poppy color at the top becoming a darker cranberry at the bottom.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/09/starbucks-christmas-cups/75445122/

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'...

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.

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.

If someone gets offended by Christmas, being wished a merry Christmas, being wished a happy Hanukkah, etc...

I'm all for it.

Matter of fact, I hope my Hanukkah/christmas/Yule/Ramadan/Kwanza nativity scene, this year, offends many people.

Many faiths, have holidays during the winter season... instead of being the grinch, a business that caters to the public would be wise, to recognize them all.

No rotation, just assorted cups, throughout the season. Blank ones to recognize atheists... Perhaps, even allow the customer to choose which holiday cup they'd prefer.

Well that took the discussion right off the rails.....so let's try to get it back on.

The POINT is this company is falling all over itself to engage in verbal bafflegab in order to justify a change to its service that has be the norm for several years.

INSTEAD of spouting new age crap that the new cup design 'allows everyone to tell their story' just give a clear reason for the change.

The THEORY is that people complained the images on the cup represented Christmas, so in turn THAT means they represented Christianity. MANY people are not comfortable with that idea. Hence your kids schools having a 'The Festival of Lights' or a 'Holiday Concert' or a 'Winter Celebration' instead of a Christmas Concert.

Starbucks feeling the heat, decided to dump these nasty 'Christian' images entirely. You know, like the evangelical snowflake, Lutheran wrapped present,and Baptist winking Santa!

So instead of coming clean, and risking a groundswell of Christian dollars walking down the street to Dunkin' Donuts, it tried to BS its way out of removing what were actually NON-RELIGIOUS symbols to appease the complainers.

Hey Starbucks? Nut up, tell the truth, and suck up whatever the consequences to your bottom line might be. I'd think more highly of you if you did, and might actually buy a coffee from your pretentious barrista training facility one day.

Stephen Colberts' take on it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypFGaW4eXj0

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