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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz urges customers to not bring guns to cafes
CBS Money Watch ^
| 09/18/2013
| CBS
Posted on 09/18/2013 6:18:11 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
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To: Uncle Miltie
Never been in one.There is a book store in the Mall that has one in it.All the yuppie libs sit in there,reading, as if they were ultra intellectuals when all they are is ultra aholes
To: Uncle Miltie
Their coffee isn’t worth $2.50 - $4.00 a cup. So I’ve never been there.
It’s a private company making poor business decisions by spouting off when they probably should shut up and sell coffee.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:31:57 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
To: justice14
you must identify with the “cool” factor
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:32:23 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: cloudmountain
To: Uncle Miltie
Why not just say:
"We respect and follow the laws of the states, counties and cities where we do business"
and be done with it?
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:33:34 AM PDT
by
Poison Pill
(Take your silver lining and SHOVE IT!)
To: Uncle Miltie
I spend a lot of money. One thing I refuse to buy is Starbucks coffee.
I may spend a lot, but I’m not stupid with it.
Overpriced and ridiculous. Besides, I just like it black.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:33:46 AM PDT
by
OpusatFR
To: Uncle Miltie
Hey, those stores are private property. It’s his call.
If he wants to telegraph to every junkie street thug out there that it’s open season for holdups in his stores, that’s his business.
To: Uncle Miltie
Someone needs to ask Schultz, how many times has someone openly carrying a firearm actually disrupted the business going on at the store?
People who open carry typically are the least confrontational people you can find, so this doesnt make much sense.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:35:02 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: Uncle Miltie
Can’t stand Starbucks .... don’t like the coffee or the stores. Unfortunately, my SIL gave me $30 worth of gift cards for Starbucks ... I could scream. I’ve been there twice and walked out with nothing .... I think I’m going to have to return the gift cards.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:35:07 AM PDT
by
MissMagnolia
(You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
To: PLD
It's strange that Dunkin’ Donuts has the better coffee and Starbucks the better donuts.
I'm going to DD from now on.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:37:19 AM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
To: Uncle Miltie
I think the next time I see a plainclothes cop in my usual Starbucks (just a few blocks from the police station) I will politely tell the manager that ‘that person with a gun is making me nervous’.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:38:31 AM PDT
by
tgusa
(gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
To: t1b8zs
CEO of starbucksNo need for the obvious.
He thinks he's God if he thinks he can keep people from packing. His arrogance is appalling.
To: jersey117
“Wont be bringing my cash either.... Not that I ever did.”
That one sentence explains exactly why he said what he said. Gun owners/conservatives/gun rights supporters have never been Starbucks target audience. Urban and suburban liberals have always been Starbucks’ main source of revenue, and a handful of “Starbucks appreciation days” did not change that. If being perceived as gun friendly hurt them more with their liberal customers than it helped them with conservatives (likely, as I don’t know many conservatives who regularly pay absurd price for bad coffee), then this was a good business move.
To: Red in Blue PA
Someone needs to ask Schultz, how many times has someone openly carrying a firearm actually disrupted the business going on at the store?
People who open carry typically are the least confrontational people you can find, so this doesnt make much sense.Well put.
To: Uncle Miltie
This is the act of a company that wants to stay out of politics and sell coffee. They aren't interested in controversy, they don't want drama, they just want to sell coffee to people who carry guns and people who don't carry guns.
For all of us who just wished that this or that corporation would stick to business and stay off the soapbox, this is exactly what we asked for. I have no problem with it.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:40:17 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
To: Candor7
"Ill take my coffee black, and carry." Do you use one of those High Capacity Venti Assault Cups?
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:40:58 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Why haven't we heard from the 30 Benghazi survivors?)
To: Conscience of a Conservative
That one sentence explains exactly why he said what he said. Gun owners/conservatives/gun rights supporters have never been Starbucks target audience. Urban and suburban liberals have always been Starbucks main source of revenue, and a handful of Starbucks appreciation days did not change that. If being perceived as gun friendly hurt them more with their liberal customers than it helped them with conservatives (likely, as I dont know many conservatives who regularly pay absurd price for bad coffee), then this was a good business move.True. I hadn't thought about it but the gun-toters AREN'T Starbuckers, as a rule.
To: Uncle Miltie
Thugs, bring your guns to Starbucks, no one will stop you.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:42:27 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
To: Uncle Miltie
Do you use one of those High Capacity Venti Assault Cups? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Like you I use whatever comes to hand.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:44:20 AM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: yldstrk
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:46:51 AM PDT
by
justice14
("Christ is Victorious" / @rjustice21)
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