Mrs. Fields has become the first company to ban Christmas from their products and promotion for this year.
Posted on 10/12/2007 8:04:11 AM PDT by pillut48
Mrs. Fields has become the first company to ban Christmas from their products and promotion for this year.
When Diane H. of Michigan called Mrs. Fields and asked to speak with a supervisor in customer service about why they banned Christmas, the supervisor told Diane that they do not offer anything with Merry Christmas because they don't want to offend anyone.
Take a look at Mrs. Fields Holiday Gift Preview by clicking here. In the "search" bar, type in the word "Christmas." But don't expect to find any reference to Christmas. (If you do, it has been added since this letter was written.)
Mrs. Fields wants the business of Christians who celebrate Christmas, but they don’t mind if they offend Christians.
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Contact information:
Stephen Russo, President
Mrs. Fields
2855 East Cottonwood Parkway
Suite 400
Salt Lake City, UT 84121-7050
Primary Phone: 1-800-266-5437
Secondary Phone: 801-736-5600
E-Mail: Stephen Russo
srusso@mrsfields.com
I went to Costco yesterday and the isles were stuffed with Christmas stuff. I probably am through going to stores until January. Enough already.
Mrs. Fields will now join other companies on my boycott list.
Well, this anti-Christmas business is starting early this year!
Yes it sure is. Maybe this is Mrs Fields way of seeing if people are going to get mad & not buy her cookies. If she gets flack about it she may change her mind asap
Mrs Fields doesn't get my business. I will bake my own cookies & I bet they will be better then hers.
Isn’t Debbie Fields Jewish??
Good one. LOL.
I’m banning Mrs. Fields from my stomach and bed.
First the “celebrities”, MSM, now this. Just Damn!
What’s left?
Well, I’m now offended.
How can Christmas be offensive?
I’m offended that Muslims celebrate Ramadan here in the US.
I hope their sales fall like a comet.
This is one time where I think NOT CONTACTING Mrs Fields would be a much better approach, folks.
Don’t contact to complain, and don’t contact to order anything.
We’re capitalists, the best on the planet. Lets play to our inherent strength.
It apparently takes a while for the business community, especially their marketing departments, to get the word that banning Christmas is not just bad, but very bad for business.
As it is, it now has the embarrassing character of a hamburger chain trying to capitalize on what was supposed to be the next hit movie, that instead turned into the turkey of the year.
“But why shouldn’t we do Jewish and Muslim-themed Christmas cards?”, asked the soon to be ex-VP of marketing.
Ms. Fields should say that she makes her cookies using the blood of jewish babies, and that will make everyone happy
“When Diane H. of Michigan called Mrs. Fields and asked to speak with a supervisor in customer service about why they banned Christmas, the supervisor told Diane that they do not offer anything with Merry Christmas because they don’t want to offend anyone.”
Something like 78% of Americans have claimed to be Christian. Were they really counting on the Muslim cookie revenue so much?
“When Diane H. of Michigan called Mrs. Fields and asked to speak with a supervisor in customer service about why they banned Christmas, the supervisor told Diane that they do not offer anything with Merry Christmas because they don’t want to offend anyone.”
Well, except 78% of the country. Good thinking.
That’s okay. I have never liked Mrs Fields cookies anyway. Too much fat and too many calories for what you get.
Maybe it is time to start raising a big whine about the commercialization of Christmas anyway. OBJECT to companies using the phrase “Merry Christmas” and using your religion to sell products. Even OBJECT to the use of your symbols and maybe even of the traditional red and green. Try turning it around on them because they have just been USING Christianity for a very long time. Who needs them and their mostly tainted Chinese smelly imports anyway? Cookies are without meaning unless someone you love bakes them with TLC. How about just ONE Christmas where everybody rejects commercialization?
“because they don’t want to offend anyone.”
Aren’t they offending those that want Christmas.
Seems they missed the basic objective of their goal.
Failure is failure.
I agree with you, just ignore them and don’t buy from them.
I received a catalog from Mrs. Fields in the mail last week and it looks like they dropped Christmas because they want to focus on large business orders that you can give out to clients, hence no mention of any specific holiday.
“because they don’t want to offend anyone.”
Aren’t they offending those that want Christmas.
Seems they missed the basic objective of their goal.
Failure is failure.
Secular socialists are at it again -
enough companies have reversed coarse on the “happy holidays” BS, you’d think that other companies would have learned.
And it’s NOT about “not offending anyone” - it’s about secularizing society. Always understand what your enemy is up to, because they can only win if we continue to let them obfuscate their goals.
Yeah, really....I thought....”Mrs. Fields”....are they STILL in business?
What is there to be upset about? Mrs Fields does NOT want Christmas business. So honor “her” request.
ANY and ALL purchases made for the celebration of Christmas should be made elsewhere, at and from companies that welcome same.
If there happens to be a needed purchase for no particular reason, then consider (only) these GRINCHES.
The best revenge is giving these idiots what they want.
Perhaps you could start up your own business and be a competitor for Mrs. Fields’ customers?
and I will ban Mrs Feilds products from my presence.
I get most of our stuff from Harry and David anyway.
“Mrs. Fields has apparently heard the complaints. They are claiming products are on the way. A pic of a cookie with Merry Christmas decorated in icing is on their home page.”
Wow that was fast...what idiot in their company didn’t think there would be a huge backlash?
Excellent point!!!
Yep, they are. Last time I had a product of theirs, it was stale to be honest. But I know people that swear by them.
Folks, the Christmas stuff simply isn’t out yet. Don’t you think it would be a tad early to be making that stuff at this point?
Does that list still fit in a folder, or have you had to move to a binder?
I agree. If they tell us our religion is offensive to them, that’s o.k. We,Christians, being good and decent people will not offend them by purchasing their products. We will find someone who isn’t afraid to associate with Christians.
Amen.
It offends me that they took Christ out of Christmas.
HA...had a conversation with my 16 yo niece this summer..we were talking about Christianity....since she is uneducated and unbelieving in Christianity (except by me)....I asked her why she celebrated CHRISTmas which she loves.....since it is Christ’s Mass....I think this year she will be really thinking about it differently. Unfortunately she’s not unusual....there is so much secularization of Christmas - it’s just a reason to PARTEEEE.
I got this email yesterday and mailed them my thoughts. No shopping at Mrs. Fields for me.
Yeah!!!
I was on a thread yesterday, about Chinese products and how their might not be enough of them on the shelves this Christmas. A Freeper there suggested the same. Make your own presents, bake up some cookies, make some fudge, spend time as a family and pray. Real radical stuff.
Have a REAL Christmas instead of the highly commercialized, make money off those stupid Christians, while we make Christians the butt of slander the rest of the year, businesses.
I’m with you on it!!
do a search for “ Christmas”... NOTHING!!!! they may have pacified the Christian Holiday by that big cookie with Merry Christmas but no Christmas search!!! BAH HUMBUG... I will make my own , thankyou!
The list is getting quite large. It is now stored on a hard drive.
Ha! Now their home page is covered with CHRISTMAS! Didn’t take ‘em long to figure it out.
This anti-Christmas stuff is ridiculous. The holiday stopped being about the birth of Christ long before commerical accomodations to non-Christians got involved. For all intents and purposes, Christmas is gift time and not a religious holiday for the vast majority of Americans. I honestly don’t mind that stores want to cater to the largest crowd possible. I mean, customers trump religious sensibilities on the balance sheet.
All I need to know is when and where my Christmas mass will be. I prefer to celebrate the birth of Jesus at home and in church - the mall really doesn’t factor in to this.
I’ll leave the boycotting and whining to the anti-anti-Christmas crowd that seems to be more concerned about marketing slogans and store displays then using the time to open their hearts and homes and spreading cheer during (what used to be a universally) sacred time.
The results of my search for “Christmas cookies”
Mrs. Fields Gifts Search Results
Sorry, no records were found with the search parameters you provided.
Please try a new search now:
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One year our extended family made a rule for Christmas that no gifts could be NEW. Gifts had to either be made or purchased (and maybe refurbished by us) from a thrift store like Salvation Army or a garage sale. The gifts were really interesting and it was so much more meaningful and thoughtful. It was our best Christmas ever. And what a nice feeling to not be trolling for parking places in packed shopping malls, wandering around like a zombie looking for “something”. Oh and it probably saved us a lot of money as well.
I don’t buy their stuff. I’m just pointing out they acknowledge the emails. Their claim is they will have their Christmas line up by Nov. 1. Seems to me if you want to send a relative or business associate fresh cookies for Christmas, you might want to but them sometime nearer December 25, not October 12.
Backlash, or rumor control?
All we have is "Diane H. of Michigan" saying that this policy ever existed. And the AFA, which has been known to overdo the "war on Christmas" rhetoric because it's good for their fundraising.
All we know is that Mrs. Fields didn't have Christmas cookies listed on its site in early October. The AFA sent out a letter. Mrs. Fields issued a statement. Anything past that is rumor and supposition. It doesn't have to be true to be damaging -- just ask Procter & Gamble, which has been battling unfounded rumors for 30 years or so.
That giant cookie is a tease. Here’s a link to their “Holiday products” for 2007:
http://www.mrsfields.com/categories/Holiday_Gift_Preview%20?trkfrom=occasion&page=all
I found a reference she made to having a Jewish mother-in-law. So it may be that she comes from a mixed family, and as a result of becoming aware that America does indeed house a number of different religions that celebrate different holidays, she might see value in being all-inclusive with her products.
If a company doesn’t want to market “Christmas” items, that’s fine. It’s when they market “holiday” items in its place that should be rebuked. No one has to make special “Christmas” merchandise, but making money on its coattails without acknowledging its existence - or worse, implying that its existence is offensive - is truly evil.
Hey Scrooge, where's your Christmas spirit? For me and my family, it doesn't really feel like Christmas until we're boycotting at least a dozen stores.
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