I have a Starbucks Gold Card and stopped shopped there as of yesterday. No more K cups, Tazo iced tea, or anything else they sell.
I didn’t go often, but there are things I like. Well, he can ask, but customers don’t have to comply. I’ll bet there isn’t any employee who would refuse service to someone who is carrying.
ThaT is the point of the article. Starbucks CEO relized he had to choose whose business he would rather keep, gun owners or leftists. He chose leftists and the author thinks this was the correct decision from a financial standpoint.
Schultz is setting the stage for a mass killing rampage at a Starbucks, whether he realizes it or not.
Gun-free zones are like a magnet for these commie liberal pre-programmed, anti-depressant medicated, mass-murderering zombies.
A few other threads if anyone is interested in the comments thereon:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3068101/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3068122/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3068151/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3068564/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3068588/posts
Starbucks can give themselves a $6 double-latte crappachino enema for all I care.
Jay Leno says it makes it easier for Starbucks to rob you.
I believe that if you are stupid enough to go to some place and buy an $8 “Venti” Mocha Soy Latte... you ought not be allowed to have a gun... based purely on your poor judgement skills alone.
The gun goes with me, always.
But dont worry. Me, my guns, or MY MONEY will not be going to a Starbucks.
Dear Starbucks ... up yours. Dunkin Donuts has better cheaper coffee and I don’t have to be a potential victim while I’m there.
I warned my local tea party leader to stop patronizing Starbucks over their prior ambiguous support. You simply can NEVER back a liberal organization. Sooner or later it was obvious what would happen. Meanwhile gun-rights folks have added millions of their dollars to Progressive douchebag Schultz’s pockets.
I carry concealed always and everywhere...I won’t patronize any business that posts or publishes as their policy that legally armed customers are not welcome...
But this new policy statement appears to be a subtle attempt by Starbucks corporate to “have it both ways”...
Appease their Leftard customers’ tender sensibilities, while (winkie-winkie) providing an “out” for their armed customers to carry on...
Consider: “Concealed means concealed”, and that means all the time...So if the gun’s concealed, who would know? Unless Starbucks installs metal detectors, or starts frisking customers while they’re waiting in line for their lattes, nobody’s gonna be the wiser...
If need arises and you do defend yourself inside a Starbucks with your licensed handgun, non-compliance with a doofus corporate policy is small potatoes compared with saving your life...
If you carry a handgun, love Starbucks, and can’t stand doing without it, just ignore their “preference” and continue to covertly carry into their stores like you’ve always done...Don’t make an issue of it...Or simply drive thru...
On the other hand, if their “preference” sticks in your craw, find somewhere else (like a local Mom and Pop shop that can use the business) to get your portable caffeine fix...
Aside from the weak-kneed cave-in to the Progs, nothing much has changed, and it’s really a non-issue...
Say goodbye to a lot of business.
This is an attempt to have it both ways. Unless they post “no guns” or ask you to leave, it has no legal bearing whatsoever.
Their coffee is burnt anyways. Sound like time to try someone elses coffee. Is dunkins any good?
We have two kinds of coffee bags available at the office. I used to pick randomly, not any more.
Ah Hot Air...where the libtard trolls run wild spewing stupidity and insults to their betters while I was apparently banned without warning or explanation.
Regardless, Starbleaughs and every other business that thinks they have a right to override the 2nd can go pout in a corner like the little babies they are. Them AND their snooty brainwashed-yuppie and college-kid crowd who have been spoiled by freedom and safety their entire pathetic lives.
You want safety, either live in a police state or give John and Jane Q. Average the means to EFFECTIVELY defend themselves.
Perhaps this is the perfect opportunity to stage a 1960’s style Sit in protest by gun owners?
If he ain’t going to ask us to leave, we should just sit in our local star bucks with our guns and browse the web?