Time to get some coffee and doughnuts

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The nearest dunkin donuts from where I live is 90 minutes away by interstate. Its in one of the bluest parts of the state so good luck maga chumps.

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    Wait. So we can go into a Dunkin Donuts without meeting MAGA people? Hell, I’m gluten free and I’m starting to consider it.

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    Too bad their donuts are terrible and I’m not a customer anyway, otherwise I’d be happy that there are fewer fanatical racists to deal with.

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      Yeah I tried their coffee for the first time and it sucked. Shame because there’s one down the street from me so it’d be super convenient to do coffee runs.

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    I live in Massachusetts. There are a lot of working class people that support Trump in our state, but if you ask them to choose between Dunks and Trump, it’s not gonna end well for Trump.

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    A broken clock is right twice a day - I won’t really bother to find out why they won’t go to DD, but I’m already boycotting them because their donuts suck and their coffee isn’t as good as my local coffee shop.

    Donut is in their name, and they can’t even have fresh ones made? Lazy and greedy corpos run that place.

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    I mean, cool they won’t have to deal with magats but I still don’t really like the company, they frequently open up shops right next to the Cambodian mom and pop shops to try and oust them. They aren’t usually successful since the family run places operate at 1/5 the cost but it’s still shady business practices.

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      Could be worse.

      A while ago there was a wonderful little mom-and-pop chocolate shop/cafe ten minutes’ walk from my house. They had four different versions of hot chocolate on the menu, at different levels of strength, and the chocolates in their display case were handmade in the store – you could see from the ordering queue straight into the kitchen – and they were just to die for. See’s and Ghirardelli could only dream of making chocolates that good. It was a great little place we would all go for a treat.

      A few years ago now, a new Starbucks opened up in that same strip mall. It was less than a quarter mile from another Starbucks in an indoor mall, but that one didn’t have a drive-thru, you see, so they needed another. One of the conditions of Starbucks accepting the lease was that there wouldn’t be any other high-end cafés in the area, so the city, seeing dollar signs, doubled the chocolate shop’s rent. They were out of business before the year was out.

      I’m still mad about that.

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        Yeah, I’d say that’s a good reason to be mad. It’s also weird, the demand around here would be for the mom and pop shops over any chain. But if the corpos get to cheat with backhanded deals with the city, not much you can do about it.

        I recently moved to an area with mostly chains but it’s slowly changing. People on nextdoor are bitter (and honestly pretty awful) about it, like “oh no, my liquor store turned into a coffee shop, the world has gone to shit.”

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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      There is much more profit in coffee vs donuts.

      Dunkin donuts even tried to rebrand as Dunkin’s and had a ad campaign about its coffee for a while.

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          I’m a coffee snob. It’s 100% not the best coffee but it’s consistent, cheap and accessible.

          Aroma joes is damn good coffee tho

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    Call whatever you want woke and boycott anything you want to, that’s your prerogative. However, it seems that this is yet another case of MAGA supporters taking rejection personally, and the brand not giving the rightwing ad platform dollars hurt their feelings.

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    It would suck to be a diehard MAGA supporter, all these American brands that you constantly need to boycott. For the team that hates cancel culture, there sure is a lot of cancel culture to keep up with.

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      You say that as if it isn’t even harder for us leftists trying to boycott Nestle (and all its subsidiary brands!), Coke (ditto), the entire fossil fuel and plastics industries, etc.

      Meanwhile, it’s simple for the MAGAs since it’s all performative bullshit anyway: they just have to avoid the particular brand name that pissed them off (e.g. boycotting Bud Light by switching to Michelob, ignoring that it’s made by the same company).

    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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      It sounds amazing in principle for the rest of us.

      I’m across the pond, but if the right wing Muppets suddenly started boycotting Costa or Cafe Nero, I’d be spending far more of my time there.

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    1 month ago

    But remember, advertisers boycotting XTwitter is horrible and illegal and mean and against the First Amendment.