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Starbucks to Open New Stores in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Celeb Cafe ^ | 7-17-2015 | Dave Harris

Posted on 07/17/2015 5:45:40 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

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To: Citizen Zed

Lol- are they gonna take ebt cards for those $7 grande mocha lattes?


21 posted on 07/17/2015 6:10:04 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: DCBryan1
...but they will close them slowly.

Or they can simply wait until the next riots and simply never reopen all the locations that burn.

22 posted on 07/17/2015 6:10:38 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: DCBryan1

Not to mention robbed customers! Omg imagine the yoots staking out the white privileged class at Starbucks .... Kinda like hyenas at a watering hole


23 posted on 07/17/2015 6:12:17 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Citizen Zed

Good luck with that...


24 posted on 07/17/2015 6:13:11 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Dallas59; arthurus
"Please step up to the order window so that your barista can help you."


25 posted on 07/17/2015 6:20:03 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Citizen Zed

Just goes to show how naive and out of touch with the real world these liberal corporate types are. Do they really think people in these neighborhoods are going to buy a $4 or more cup of coffee when they could buy a $4 bottle of wine? Hope any managers get a large life insurance policy for their family from Starbucks. Liberals are so stupid.


26 posted on 07/17/2015 6:28:51 AM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: kevslisababy

I never buy specialty coffee there. I only buy “coffee”, black, no sugar. That has been my order since they opened up.

Also, Starbucks adds to your property values.


27 posted on 07/17/2015 6:30:06 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: Citizen Zed
These stores could be real reality shows...
28 posted on 07/17/2015 6:32:43 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: BunnySlippers
I only buy “coffee”, black, no sugar.

This will be considered racist micro aggression at these locations.

29 posted on 07/17/2015 6:42:52 AM PDT by optiguy (If government is the answer, it was a stupid question.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Because we know how important it is for people in Obama’s communities to have $6 Latte Espresso Crappuccinos with their scones.


30 posted on 07/17/2015 6:45:25 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (SECEDE TEXAS!! If not now, when?)
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To: kevslisababy

“how many people in “low income” neighborhoods are going to spend $4-$6 on a cup of specialty coffee?”

What are you talking about? I will guarantee those “low income” people have way more disposable income than you or I


31 posted on 07/17/2015 6:46:06 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Citizen Zed

Starbucks is allowed to accept EBT cards in certain situations. Good business move to get the welfare customer. And WE get to pay for a ghetto thug’s coffee.


32 posted on 07/17/2015 6:47:45 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Citizen Zed

A relative of mine was a manager at a McDonalds a few years back in a really low income area that made the news twice in one year for having crazy customers that started fights or threw food back into the drive thru window.

If Starbucks opens up in these low income areas, how soon until one of these crazy customers throws their coffee back onto a barista?


33 posted on 07/17/2015 6:49:07 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: Envisioning

They’ll have to change their “format” a bit, I’m guessing.

Bulletproof glass, some sliding mechanism to take the money and deliver the product,

perhaps bolted down stainless steel tables and chairs...


34 posted on 07/17/2015 6:51:08 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Citizen Zed

I’m guessing Starbucks is looking for tax write offs.


35 posted on 07/17/2015 6:52:00 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Change the Defense of Marriage Act to the Defense of Holy Matrimony Act. Game, set match.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I’m guessing Starbucks is looking for tax write offs.


36 posted on 07/17/2015 6:52:00 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Change the Defense of Marriage Act to the Defense of Holy Matrimony Act. Game, set match.)
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To: MagnoliaB

Well, leftists truly believe that if you put violent, stupid, criminal people in “the right environment”,

they’ll not be stupid violent criminals anymore.


37 posted on 07/17/2015 6:52:36 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: arthurus

I have experience in this area of retail buffoonery and they will learn how to write off embezzlement without being able to fire the manager of the store.
We weren’t even allowed to do audits on the stores. The stores showed up on our reports at the bottom of performance so the stores had to be taken off all reports for management.


38 posted on 07/17/2015 6:55:46 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Citizen Zed

“Would you like Kevlar with that Frappachinno?”


39 posted on 07/17/2015 6:57:08 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Marko413

They aren’t going to buy coffee. They’ll buy cookies and hot ice cream and complain about the prices.


40 posted on 07/17/2015 6:58:16 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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