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Originally posted by oddball:
Sheer stupidity.
God, how stupid, these idiots running Starbucks.

Almost a Starbucks Haiku there! Just had to change a couple of syllables.

Sheer stupidity
God, how stupid, these Morons
Ruining Starbucks

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Originally posted by rockchalk06:
Starbucks has dug themselves into a corner that no matter what they do or say, they are going to look like asses.

I couldn’t be any happier at this very moment

Starbucks is run by a bunch NW liberals and their actions proves that Liberalism is a mental disease.

Starbucks has bigger problems now. Paulie's robbin' 'em blind.

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Originally posted by Edmond:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by rockchalk06:
Starbucks has dug themselves into a corner that no matter what they do or say, they are going to look like asses.

I couldn’t be any happier at this very moment

But they won't learn anything until sales and profits drop. But I can bet a lunch that even after that happens, they will come up with some other "reason" why it happened and not because of their dumb ass politics.

What the hell is so great about their coffee? I'm not a coffee drinker so I wouldn't know.[/QU

I have a sister-in-law and her husband who go to a Starbucks everyday and fork out over 10 dollars for their slop.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:

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Originally posted by straightshooter01:

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Anybody else have the urge to buy a stack Starbucks gift cards and then pass them out to panhandlers and the homeless?

Yes... yes... I love that. I am feeling very humanitarian today, maybe Ill get a handful of $5 cards and hand them out this weekend

Why buy gift cards. Their new policy is "no purchase" necessary. Just print up some flyers with directions to the nearest locations and pass them out under the bridges.

Get them used to going there, drinking coffee, hanging out, etc. When the $5 runs out, hopefully they'll take advantage of "no purchase" necessary policy which'll likely lead to panhandling, making bathrooms uninhabitable, vomiting on sidewalks, peeing on sidewalks, etc.

Tatortodd: You just described Democrat run cities in Amaerica.

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Originally posted by satch:

I have a sister-in-law and her husband who go to a Starbucks everyday and fork out over 10 dollars for their slop.

It's well known in the coffee biz that a "regular customer" is worth about $500 in revenue per year to a coffee shop.

When you kick the habit, it really does hurt them.

My daughter wanted me to pick her and her friends up after school today at Starbucks since one of them had a gift card. So of course I go in there after getting my large coffee from DD.

Of course I didn’t get any cream at DD so I could walk in to starbucks and use their cream and sugar.

^^ you saved about $2.50 and got better coffee. Good Job!

Can anyone make a meme that combines the blue interstate highway "rest area" sign with a starbucks sign?

They appear to be grinding their business down.

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Originally posted by satch:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:

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Originally posted by straightshooter01:

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Anybody else have the urge to buy a stack Starbucks gift cards and then pass them out to panhandlers and the homeless?

Yes... yes... I love that. I am feeling very humanitarian today, maybe Ill get a handful of $5 cards and hand them out this weekend

Why buy gift cards. Their new policy is "no purchase" necessary. Just print up some flyers with directions to the nearest locations and pass them out under the bridges.

Get them used to going there, drinking coffee, hanging out, etc. When the $5 runs out, hopefully they'll take advantage of "no purchase" necessary policy which'll likely lead to panhandling, making bathrooms uninhabitable, vomiting on sidewalks, peeing on sidewalks, etc.

Tatortodd: You just described Democrat run cities in Amaerica.

Yep. I'm just trying to concentrate the Demonrat work product into a few deserving locations.

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Originally posted by 2012BOSS302:
They appear to be grinding their business down.

I see what you're doing there...

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
Wait until the homeless come in and use the bathrooms for hours to do laundry and take baths.

Or crap in the hallway because the bathroom was occupied.

In the long run this is a good thing as the snowflakes who spend hours in there on the wifi will get an up close and personal look at the street people.

Today's WSJ opinion

Starbucks’ Homeless Problem
No matter what you do to try to appease unhappy progressives, you will be wrong.

Starbucks has jumped the shark. To put that more precisely, American liberalism has jumped the shark.

In April two black men walked into a Starbucks in Philadelphia. They were there to use the bathroom, not to order anything Starbucks sold. They said they were on business. The manager said they wouldn’t leave.

The manager called the cops, someone posted a video of the two guys being arrested, and, needless to say, Starbucks instantaneously announced it would close its more than 8,000 U.S. stores May 29 so all of its employees could undergo sensitivity training.

With any luck, someone will post a video of that, too. We always thought Starbucks’ baristas were the coolest, most up-to-the-moment workers in America, but who knew?

There’s more, but we need to take a breather to get a grip on what’s happening here.

Howard Schultz wasn’t the founder of Starbucks. But he was the inventor of Starbucks.

A native New Yorker who migrated to Seattle in the 1980s, Howard Schultz saw earlier than most that liberal politics were moving away from their lunch-pail roots and becoming a lifestyle.

Liberalism was black coffee in a white ceramic mug. Progressivism would be drinking coffee through white foam in recyclable cardboard cups.

Mr. Schultz turned “latte” into a household word, at least in some circles. He made it possible for guys to say out loud, “I’d like a grande latte,” without getting beaten up by their pals.

Starbucks was so far ahead of the curve that at one point, in a stab at solving the national racial crisis that Black Lives Matter had elevated, it told its baristas to write “Race Together” on the sides of cups as they handed over customers’ morning injection of caffeine.

Wonder Land Podcast for May 23, 2018


Then Philadelphia happened. Restaurants all over the U.S. now have signs on their doors: “Restrooms for patrons only.” But going into a Starbucks is, unavoidably, a kind of liberalish-prog exercise in political bonding.

Your $5 Caramel Cocoa Cluster Frappuccino is helping support the Sustainable Coffee Challenge to ensure ethically sourced coffee and fight climate change.

Well, as the saying goes: In for a nickel, in for a dime.

In the wake of the Philadelphia arrest video, Starbucks headquarters announced last weekend that anyone could use its restrooms without making a purchase.

Anyone?

Starbucks’s customers, not yet totally oblivious to the reality of daily life, tweeted instantly that this would turn many of the stores into homeless shelters and drug dens.

By Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Starbucks had issued a revision of its revision of the company’s barista-customer interface:

“Under the procedures for handling disruptive guests,” the Journal reported, “Starbucks said Monday, managers and baristas should first ask a fellow employee to verify that a certain behavior is disruptive and if it is, respectfully request that the customer stop. Other examples of disruptive behavior include talking too loudly, playing loud music and viewing inappropriate content. The company provided employees with examples of when they should call 911, which includes when a customer is using or selling drugs.”

Starbucks had arrived at the inevitable endpoint of its politicized retailing. On instinct, Starbucks decided it could also be a homeless shelter. But then the social-media monitors vetoed that. What the Starbucks crucible makes clear is . . . you can’t win.

No matter what you do to try to appease the progressive zeitgeist, it will always be wrong.

Progressive liberalism has become a political Bermuda Triangle, threatening to suck into oblivion anything that comes near it.

Ask any university president. The recently retired head of the University of Texas, William McRaven —the former Navy SEAL commander who planned the final assault on Osama bin Laden in Pakistan—calls being a university president “the toughest job in the nation.”

Ask Google, where employees at its California headquarters have subdivided themselves into political message groups such as “Militia at Google,” “Googlers for Animals” and “Sex Positive at Google.”

This week New York City’s uber-progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio, said the police should issue summonses rather than arrest people for smoking marijuana in public, which—hard to believe—is still illegal in the state. The city’s police, now in the same boat as the Starbucks baristas, say this would put them in the middle of a political morass.

This all sounds familiar. In 1993, New Yorkers thought their city had descended into social anarchy, and elected Rudy Giuliani mayor. Many of the New Yorkers who voted for Rudy cannot believe anyone in the U.S. voted for Donald Trump. They should re-examine their politics.

Since about the time Starbucks was born, progressives have been moralizing and politicizing everything—race, sex, gender, football, coffee. The result is chaos. And it isn’t popular. A Washington Post-Kaiser poll this week revealed that about 50% of people think today’s protesters are more extreme and violent than 50 years ago, in 1968.

Back then, in an iconic Jefferson Airplane song called “White Rabbit,” Grace Slick sang that “logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead.”

And when that happens, there are going to be political consequences.

 "I believe Starbucks is doing what’s right in their hearts whether its outcome sparks negativity or not,” said Johnny Varela, a 31-year-old carpenter in Orlando, Fla. “I think Starbucks is very humanitarian.”

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

About the incident that sparked all of this, my first thought when I saw the video clip of the actual arrests being made was that it was planned and executed to further progressive agenda. Maybe not planned by/with Starbucks but they were a perfect vehicle for it. I'd say whatever fucked up goals those folks had that day have been realized.

When I was in middle school we were taught about the civil rights struggle and how one courageous woman, one day became fed up enough with oppression that she defied the rules and took a seat at the front of the bus at great personal risk. I'm probably way behind the curve here because it wasn't until many years later that I read the facts about how that whole incident was planned and staged with involvement of activists and the media to increase awareness. Okay fine, well done. But do not lie to me about the true circumstances and motivation of events like this. That will only cheapen your cause in my eyes. The more you know...

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Originally posted by Dan the man:
About the incident that sparked all of this, my first thought when I saw the video clip of the actual arrests being made was that it was planned and executed to further progressive agenda....

I think you make a good point. How many are looking for ways to stir up stink to promote their leftist agenda? The press jumps on it, many Americans swallow the kool-aid.

I work for a large agency here in the DFW area. The homeless have besieged some urban Starbucks and there's not a damn thing they can do about it. I took a call the other day with the manager telling me if the policy doesn't change, they'll be forced to close the store.

I'm waiting for the greed of profit to over-turn their political causes.

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Originally posted by JR78:
I work for a large agency here in the DFW area. The homeless have besieged some urban Starbucks and there's not a damn thing they can do about it. I took a call the other day with the manager telling me if the policy doesn't change, they'll be forced to close the store.

Yay!!

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
Wait until the homeless come in and use the bathrooms for hours to do laundry and take baths.

Seattle bought 5 high tech, self cleaning toilets. They got occupied for hours, used for prostitution and drug deals etc. finally they were pulled. How about demanding Starbucks renovate their restrooms and install showers and washing machines? It's a logical extension of their policy.

"Sleeping? No, I'm meditating/resting my eyes..."