Starbucks CEO's refugee comments sour customer views of chain: survey

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[mumblypeg]

But... but...Aren’t Starbucks’ staff and clientele mostly comprised of guilty white liberal hipsters and aren’t they all about Diversity?
Maybe those latte-slurping Gender Studies majors balked at the idea of surrendering their barista careers, eh?

[aomagrat]

Paul Newman coffee is awesome.

[N. Theknow]

Even before the CEO said he did not want investors or customers opposed to homo-hitching (marriage it ain't) Starbucks was on my NFW (No Fricking Way) list.

Only thing more I can do is drive an alternate route so I don't have to drive by their stores.

[bert]

what they need is more stores to relieve the crowding

Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded

[Impala64ssa]

It is so crowded, nobody goes there anymore?
A classic Yogi-ism. There's plenty of Cuban owned mom and pop bodegas around Tampa that serve great strong coffee at much more reasonable prices and without the pretentious aura Starbucks is known for. Besides given Starbucks progressive corporate culture you'd think they would want us to BUY LOCALLY.

[ctdonath2]

Target and Macy’s and JC Penny are still making excuses for their plummeting revenue.

[junta]

It’s the holier than thou attitude, people might not know the details but they can sniff out the holier than thous a continent away.

[mad_as_he$$]

Shut up and make the coffee.

Haven’t been in a Starbucks since the gun letter.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Fortunately I’m not a coffee snob. Just the opposite. I can’t stand flavored or fancy coffees of any sort. If I buy a cup of coffee from a store, it’s DD or Burger King. I don’t like McD as I think it’s hazelnut or something.

[polymuser]

Muzzie immigrant women can’t touch or wipe themselves, so they use water bottles to rinse themselves. It leaves a wet unsanitary mess all over the stall, empty bottles laying around, a toilet seat nobody wants to sit on. It’s just nasty. Hire away, $tarbuck$.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Well, since I never go to Starbucks, I can’t boycott it. It always seemed like a bit of a fad to me. Hopefully this dope is pushing the end of the fad along a little with his radical liberal comments.

[Beagle8U]

Walmart sells ‘great value’ ‘Donut Shop’ coffee for about $6.50 a can.

From what I can tell it’s the same as Dunkin’ Donuts coffee except you brew at home.

[pfflier]

The idiodic business decision is to do something solely to be PC rather than looking at the operational requirements for basic business sense.

Another obvious thing that is stupid is to hire 10K employees that are not proficient in the language of their host country.

Even worse, can you image an employee accusing you of a microagression for ordering your coffee black?

[hinckley buzzard]

I routinely drive through for McD's coffee, tastes the best and at 1.00 can't be beat.

[aquila48]

“It’s so crowded, nobody goes there anymore.”

[newnhdad]

I stopped going about a year ago because they have a policy that places preference of the online orders over the human customers. It was taking longer and longer to get a cup with fewer people in line.

[aquila48]

“Even worse, can you image an employee accusing you of a microagression for ordering your coffee black?”

Or not ordering black. Do you have something against black?

[aquila48]

Today that’s known as “virtue-signaling”.

[ClearBlueSky]

Their brown DRINK isn’t coffee and now they think adding third world immigrants to their native airhead staff is a good thing. That might fly in Seattle, but flyover country isn’t buying.

[pfflier]

I see a $100K settlement on that conundrum.