I think we all know the answer to that question
Yeah....Okay Star Buckin’ lemme know how it works out with the EBT/WICs/SNAP crowd how your overpriced Latte’s are gonna sell. Also are you gonna do away with ‘vente, grande, and pissimo’ for something more cultural? You know like “Bigass gulp”, etc.?
Two to one they’re gonna subsidize the prices and MAKE that store a success.
Black coffee matters!
Corporate store or franchise? Probably a corporate store.
5.56mm
Starbucks should have opted to open their first private contract Supermax prison in Ferguson.
Much better chance of success, fewer broken windows.
Nothing says “we care about black people” more than selling them an overpriced addictive substance that’s bad for their health!
I want access to the surveillance cams’ DVR for review.
What could go wrong?
Gentrification?
Here is my idea. Find a local minority business person and let them operate the store Starbucks can waive the franchise fee and sell the operater products at wholesale cost. Hope it works out in Ferguson but it’s doubtful. T
The people don’t have a pot to pee in yet Starbucks is there to sell $4 cups of bad coffee??
In any other world, this would be called exploitation. In liberal-land, this is called giving them “hope”
Well in that case - hell yeah! Because 'best of intentions' out trumps reality and best of intentions is supposed to allow all kinds of crap. Best of intentions also infers unassailabilty. How about screw you and your best of intentions?
No way they could even memorize all the different coffee combinations and make them. And how slow they all move out of sheer defiance. It would take 4 hours to get a coffee out the door.
Will it have a drive-by window?
While no one can be "certain" of their intentions, you can be "certain" that their solution is the the result of going through life with blinders on.
Well, there goes the neighborhood...