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Carpe CARP

There’s a new Caribou Coffee in town, just opened this week in the old depot downtown, and they’ve been tossing out Red Wing’s “little paper that does” and one thing we all know about the CARP is you can’t throw it back!

Here’s the missive that appeared at CARP HQ:

—– Original Message —–

From: 1186 RED WING

To: glsmit@nelson-tel.net

Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 7:00 AM

Subject: carp

Hi, we thank you or your carriers for dropping off your newspaper at our Caribou Red Wing store, however, we only can have Corporate approved publications at our store. Please pass this information along to who ever is dropping off the Carp at our store.

Thank you for your understanding.

Valerie Brigham, Manager
#1186 Caribou Coffee
Red Wing, Mn 55066
651-764-2561

… sigh… It’s presumptive and dismissive — no information was provided about the parameters of their policy, no contact information for the corporate decision-maker. Now, that’s not very good PR for the new biz in town, eh? Here we all are, trying to save the Caribou in ANWR, and they demonstrate no gratitude whatsoever when they come to our home? I have a few ideas… oh-oh… who’s their corporate counsel???