By adamg on Mon., 9/3/2018 - 8:53 am
The Attleboro Sun Chronicle reports Dunkin' Donuts has been using cups emblazoned with the Philadelphia Eagles logo to serve up iced coffee and tea there.
Panzer immediately reacted, covering up the offending graphic with a Koozie - an insulating cover - with a Patriots logo on it.
Just a logistics mistake, the company - founded in Quincy, of course - swears.
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Philadelphia runs on Dunkin.
By anon
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 10:41am
Philadelphia runs on Dunkin. Yo.
This happens
By poster
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 11:49am
surprisingly often. I've been in many store like Starbucks or Trader Joe's selling "local" mugs/reusable bags/promotional cups that...are not local.
My favorite was when I was in a Starbucks just outside of San Francisco and saw a stack of "place" mugs for Banff, Alberta, Canada. Needless to say, that shipment must have been very misdirected.
Banff, Alberta has a Boston
By anon
Tue, 09/04/2018 - 10:58am
Banff, Alberta has a Boston Pizza, so I guess it makes sense.
(Boston Pizza is a Canadian pizza chain, it doesn't actually make much sense.)
Perhaps companies like Dunkin's
By roadman
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 2:09pm
shouldn't be emblazoning their coffee cups with sports logos in the first place.
Just a thought.
Yeah, next thing you know
By anon
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 2:51pm
Yeah, next thing you know these sports ball teams will have a victory parade and I'll have to share my 3-seater on the commuter rail with another member of the public!
What would you suggest?
By anon
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 3:11pm
What would you suggest?
Why not?
By fungwah
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 8:21pm
Why not?
I don't get whole "naming rights" thing
By O-FISH-L
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 4:22pm
If I want a Dunkin' Donuts coffee, the Eagles or Patriots logo isn't going to sway my decision. If I want a Gillette razor (I have one) or TD Bank account (don't have one), the stadium names won't sway my decision. If I want a cold beer it won't necessarily be the "official beer" of any pro sports league. I'm not a marketing specialist but seems like a huge waste of corporate money.
It's advertising
By BostonDog
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 6:03pm
The goal is to leave an impression so you'll consider these companies when you have a need for a related service. Hard to know how any one deal helps their bottom line but they see a value in aggregate.
There are some people who (foolishly) think better of DD because they put a local team on the cup. DD knows most people don't care but so long as a small percentage do, it's worth it to them.
It’s true
By Waquiot
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 9:12pm
I went out of my way to eat at a Beef O’Bradys after finding out they sponsored some third tier college football bowl game. Otherwise, the south only restaurant would mean nothing to me.
Reminds me of the time
By Friartuck
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 11:38pm
BC received a shipment of BU sweatshirts. Oh, the horror...
Or in the '80s when BC was
By Lanny Budd
Tue, 09/04/2018 - 9:28am
Or in the '80s when BC was big nationally in football, John Silber would routinely be introduced as the President of Boston... College. Apoplexy apocalypse.
It's a cup.
By anon
Tue, 09/04/2018 - 9:25am
It's a cup.
Do people in attleboro not have any other concerns to discuss?
The fact that so many words were written for this article is sad.
Sportsball fans..
By formerlyTheSoBo...
Tue, 09/04/2018 - 1:31pm
...arent known to have their priorities in order.
Mispicks happen
By XenaKat
Thu, 09/06/2018 - 5:15pm
I work for a grocery chain that gets shipments of in-shell peanuts at the start of every baseball season. These bags of peanuts are emblazoned with the name and logo of the local team.
Every so often, someone in the distributorship gets careless and puts a case (or three) of, for example, New York Yankees peanuts on the truck for Boston (Red Sox territory). The store canNOT send them back to the distributor, because they will only accept large returns...say enough stuff to fill a pallet. Sending them to a store in the correct area directly via UPS or FedEx costs more than the peanuts (or whatever-it-is), so the store makes the best of it.
In the case of food products, the store would mark it down, or repackage it locally to sell.
In the case of beverage cups, food containers and carry-out bags, they just use them.
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