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A Texas bakery lost orders after posting their Pride Month cookies. Then customers lined up around the block to support them.
CBS NEWS ^
| JUNE 8, 2021
| APRIL SIESE
Posted on 06/08/2021 8:09:06 AM PDT by deport
Confections in Lufkin, Texas announced on Thursday that it would be selling rainbow cookies for Pride Month. The bakery, located in East Texas, soon faced backlash for its decision.
"Today has been hard. Really hard," a Facebook post from June 3 read. "We lost a significant amount of followers because of a rainbow heart cookie we posted."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: bakery; cookies; gaynewsrooms; getwokegobroke; pinkjournalism; pride
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:09:06 AM PDT
by
deport
To: deport
woke brokes are going to the inside...
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:11:16 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(Polls are no longer designed to measure public sentiment but to influence it.)
To: deport
To: deport
I got something yellow to paint the cookies with.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:12:29 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The enemy of the people is the media.)
To: deport
Please, continue with the boycott. This current support is transitory.
5
posted on
06/08/2021 8:12:36 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Reminds me of the Chic-fil-a thing, except it was national.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:13:09 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
To: deport
The homosexuals lined up around the corner to support them. But first, they lost business until the gay word went out.
To: deport
Vote with your dollars. Don’t support businesses that don’t meet your standards if you can help it.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:13:28 AM PDT
by
Nathan _in_Arkansas
(Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
To: deport
All three local network news sites didn’t have any updates over the weekend except one added this story.
Lets see if the new customers continue to support this bakery or if they were just a one time flash mob. Lets also see if their old customers come back. Businesses don’t learn not to play politics.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:13:34 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: JonPreston
This current support is transitory.
Yep. This is not the Chic-fil-a one. This will not end quite so well for them.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:13:53 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
To: Nathan _in_Arkansas
Back in 1972 I learned in business 101 that when you buy a product you are “voting for it.” I’ve carried that perspective with me ever since.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:14:50 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
To: deport
This is how a free market works.
It appears they lost regular customers. Lets see if the new customers return. I know that when I stop going somewhere, for whatever reason, I don't return.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:15:05 AM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(We support Trump. Not the GOP)
To: deport
The current influx of support will fade away after it has run it's course. But those opposed will be around for the long haul.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:15:20 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal.)
To: Nathan _in_Arkansas
Some 60+ pages of banned companies and there are plenty of other places to shop.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:15:58 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: Michael.SF.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:17:16 AM PDT
by
mrmeyer
(You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
To: cuban leaf
About the same time, another business rule I learned was that the easiest customer to attract is the one you already have. Maybe the rules have changed.....
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:17:23 AM PDT
by
Bernard
(“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
To: deport
He is in Lufkin? Watch for this guy to move 200 miles west: Austin.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:17:40 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal.)
To: Bernard
Another rule: If a customer likes your product, he will tell a friend. If he doesn’t like it, he will tell ten.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:19:29 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal.)
To: FatherofFive
It will be like The Dixie Chicks, sure liberals voice their support, but did they buy their records? This will be a one-time shot, and this bakery will be bankrupt within the year.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:19:52 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: cuban leaf
"Back in 1972 I learned in business 101 that when you buy a product you are “voting for it.” I’ve carried that perspective with me ever since." You don't have to go to school to learn that.
Common sense still works.
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posted on
06/08/2021 8:20:13 AM PDT
by
blam
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