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A Dunkin’ Donuts shop in Cranston, Rhode Island, was criticized after they published an ad offering free coffee for white people.
Dozens of people lined up to celebrate the shop’s 30th anniversary and to receive a free coffee, if they were white, according to a campaign in a Dunkin’ advertisement on Facebook.
The advertisement said that the first 100 white customers would receive free coffee for a year.
“It’s an unfortunate mistake. It’s an embarrassing mistake,” said Field Marketing Manager Kelsey Chester.
Chester said that the issue arose when someone copied and pasted the text from the ad from a similar campaign in White Plains, New York. When they deleted the city and replaced it with Cranston, they forgot to delete the “White” portion of the city name.
Shelley Ramsey, a black woman and a regular customer at the store, told WJAR that she was surprised by the incident.
“It’s too racially diverse in there. And it’s just, that’s j… (Read more)