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February 28, 2009

I read the first two lines of this quote on my Starbucks cup and thought immediately, “It’s diversity! The next thing on this cup — clearly diversity. I’m reading your mind, unchallengingly inoffensive corporate-pandering Starbucks cup!”

Yep. It’s diversity.

And this — this is the front window of an HSBC on fiftysomethingth street. It says “This vestibule cannot be used as a thoroughfare.” What percent of the people for whom this message is intended do you think actually understand it?

Posted by jen | Filed Under advertising, consumer affairs

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