And that rule is: Don’t do it. As can be gleaned from this story in The Atlantic.
On the other hand, I for one appreciate them dying so I can drink free coffee for 30 minutes once a year.
The golf course is called “Tumbledown.” I’m surprised they didn’t work that into their ad copy. Missed opportunity for sure.
Could be worse, the major airlines could offer discounts on flights from Boston to LAX…
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But…free mini muffins at the Marriott. Alas they did not die in vain.
I’d give Marriott a pass. Building 3 was one of theirs.
Give it a decade or two and we’ll be having “9/11 Sales”.
Only The Onion.
I don’t golf. Shouldn’t 18 holes be less expensive than 9 holes x 2, not more expensive?
Not for patriots. Not on this day. Never again.
Marriott … Aren’t they the people who in the 1980s got into a controversy because they had the refreshment concessions in major-league baseball stadiums and told the vendors in the stands they couldn’t stop and stand for the national anthem but instead had to keep on vending?
Genius.
Actually, if anything, i think that makes it worse.
The golf one is terrible.
The picture one not nearly as bad.
The coffee one seems like no big deal at all since it wasn’t even an ad. It looks like they just set up some coffee and put up a sign explaining why. At the very least, Marriott isn’t ‘cashing in.’ I truly doubt they expect more business because of the free coffee.
The only thing I find weird about it is why 30 minutes? Why not just put out coffee all day or at least all morning?
Precisely. The Marriott one is bad not because it’s advertising, but because it’s so pathetic.
I’m not a big fan of the whole 9/11 remembrance industry, and i see no need for those of us who didn’t suffer direct personal loss or trauma to get all caught up in it. But it seems to me that promotions like this manage to both memorialize it and trivialize it at the same time. Free mini muffins for half an hour? Wow, you really went out of your way to show how important this is, didn’t you?
Marriott may have been going for “let’s observe a moment of silence - and there’s free coffee & muffins for those interested” but all we have is a picture of the free coffee & muffins part.
Starbucks: Collapse into cool.
Anyone else get any ironically appropriate “case in point” pop-up ads along with that article?