Posted on 05/12/2023 11:52:17 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Two customers at an Orlando location of the grocery chain Publix wanted a cake for an event they were holding late last month celebrating and supporting the transgender community..."Trans people deserve joy" was the inscription they asked to be written in icing decorating a colorful sheet cake.
But the bakery worker taking the order hesitated. "After a loooooong waiting period a manager comes up...and says, 'yeah, we can't write that we aren't allowed to take stance either ways on this issue...
...the corporate account for Publix responded to Flasterstein's Facebook post with an apology - and an offer to make the cake they wanted after all. "We are sorry that our associates did not handle your request appropriately," the grocery chain wrote. "Please message us for more details, and we will gladly make the cake."
Flasterstein later got an email from the public affairs department at Publix offering another apology and an explanation of the company's policy on what bakeries can write on cakes. "Our policy indicates that our associates may write statements that are not copyrighted or trademarked, support a charitable cause, are factual and considered to have a positive connotation," read the email from Publix, which Flasterstein shared with The Washington Post. "As we indicated in our Facebook conversation, our associates should have fulfilled your request."
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If I was the baker I just would have made a mistake and written “trains’ instead of “trans”.
“Trans people deserve joy”
Clever wording
More war by courts.
Or Tramp instead of trans.
Publix prices stink anyway. Even their BOGOs are only slight deals when you factor in the inflated first unit pricing they show. I don’t like gimmicky stores that do that as a major theme.
These sick perverts are not looking for cake. They are looking for controversy, publicity, lawsuit, a cash award and then hero status in their community.
The first reaction was the right one.
Publix has one job - do it and stay out of politics
I would have written
TR💩NS
Not a bad idea...but a bit too blatant.That would probably result in a multi million dollar “hate crime” lawsuit.
Stupid move. Turning away business? Dumb. If you can’t beat ‘em, bill ‘em.
Homo lobby is like islam; once they get a foot in the door, they never let go.
Until the muzzies toss them off rooftops.
You can’t really change your gender no matter how hard you try!
I’d have written “Trump”
They may have died of an aneurism on the spot.
Lenin said a capitalist will sell you the rope you’re going to hang him with.
Eh... maybe he was right.
“Publix is a great company”
I would disagree. I went one time and they threatened to kick me out for “walking against the directed covid traffic flow”.
Yes, they had foorprints on the floor and one way aisles. I needed an item 10 feet in front of me and they informed me I’d need to walk the length of the next aisle and come back down my aisle to grab an item 10 feet away.
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