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Ferguson’s first Starbucks opens Saturday
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Posted on 04/29/2016 3:15:36 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz visited Ferguson last year, he saw the still-visible signs of unrest. But he also saw promise, and in July the company announced it would open a location there and partner with a local nonprofit to create job training opportunities.

On Saturday, Ferguson’s first Starbucks will open at 10776 West Florissant Ave., the company said Friday.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ferguson; missouri; starbucks; thugculture
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To: Ken H
Will they sell skittles

They will have their own brand. $4 for a box with ten.

81 posted on 04/29/2016 5:12:36 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: boop

They don’t care if anyone goes to the Ferguson, MO Starbucks. What is important is that they maintain moral superiority over the rest of us. Building an unprofitable franchise location is the price of smugness.


82 posted on 04/29/2016 5:15:10 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: AndyJackson

The box will be brown with flakes and stamped to say it is made with fair trade recycled fibers.


83 posted on 04/29/2016 5:16:17 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Red in Blue PA

$15.00 an hour or $30.00 an hour as wanted by U.S. Representative Gutierrez?


84 posted on 04/29/2016 5:16:49 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Red in Blue PA

In the early days, Starbucks locations needed certain “cool” demographics.

Fast forward.

On a trip to Wyoming a few years ago, I posed the question to my wife: “I wonder if Cheyenne has a Starbucks?”

Sure enough, it had a couple or more. We stopped in one near the capitol, where we saw typical government staffers in their suits, and a guy dressed in all black, carrying on both hips.

I doubt anybody will open carry at Ferguson, but many will probably have their weapons hidden somewhere under their baggy clothes, etc.


85 posted on 04/29/2016 5:17:11 PM PDT by truth_seeker (I think in some shopping centers etc.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Virtue Signalling....


86 posted on 04/29/2016 5:17:38 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Red in Blue PA

Isn’t Star-”bucks” racist?


87 posted on 04/29/2016 5:29:18 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: encm(ss)

The coffee is bad. The espresso is very good.


88 posted on 04/29/2016 5:34:58 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Red in Blue PA
This is going to be fun!


89 posted on 04/29/2016 5:39:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I am dazzled by the CEO’s virtue.


90 posted on 04/29/2016 5:41:27 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: major-pelham
"Let’s start the pool on the shutter date - I say Nov 1st"

I'm picking the 8th of August 2016.

91 posted on 04/29/2016 5:45:18 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Red in Blue PA

They take SNAP?


92 posted on 04/29/2016 5:51:26 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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To: LongWayHome

Cumby’s does a good job with their coffee.


93 posted on 04/29/2016 5:52:25 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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To: LongWayHome
Precisely
94 posted on 04/29/2016 6:02:35 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Red in Blue PA

Just visualize a 12 block line of “ghetto cruisers” waiting to go through the drive through while protesters are out front racists offerings like “latte negro” (aka black coffee).


95 posted on 04/29/2016 6:13:10 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Bible prophesy comes true ... Hillary Benghazi Clinton is the "Whore of Babylon")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Dilbert-—it was first of all the most classically misguided guilty Liberal kind of move, and ill-considered in all its particulars,since Schultz was counting on customers who would be OK with the discussion,rather than just getting their drink and sitting down, with the Baristas themselves the probably unwilling vehicles for said discussions-—who would want to complicate this kind of cut-and-dried transaction with all that BS?


96 posted on 04/29/2016 6:17:54 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("If you want to be able to predict the future, first you have to create it"---Lincoln)
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To: ptsal; EDINVA

Al Sharpton. Lets face it, the only person drinking here is Al Sharpton.

And he’s going to try to walk out without paying.


97 posted on 04/29/2016 6:28:46 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: mountn man

6am is right before their bedtime.


98 posted on 04/29/2016 6:30:25 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: All

By the way, this thread is awesome.

Share the hell out of this.


99 posted on 04/29/2016 6:31:10 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: LongWayHome

“Cumberland Farms for coffee. 99 cents any size”

Great coffee too, unlike that bitter, overpriced robusta sold at Starbux.


100 posted on 04/29/2016 6:36:56 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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