Posted on 03/24/2015 6:17:13 AM PDT by jonatron
At the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, CEO Howard Schultz sent a clear message to anyone who supports traditional marriage over gay marriage: we don't want your business. After saying Starbucks wants to "embrace diversity of all kinds," he told a shareholder who supports traditional marriage that he should sell his shares and invest in some other company.
According to a report by Forbes, Schultz seemed a bit intolerant of any Starbucks shareholders who opposed gay marriage for moral or religious reasons. During the meeting, shareholder Tom Strobhar (who founded the Corporate Morality Action Center) pointed out that after the company voiced its support for a referendum backing gay marriage in Washington state, a boycott by traditional marriage supporters caused a drop in sales revenue.
Schultz told him "You can sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company" if he did not agree with the company's pro-gay marriage stand.
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>>we don’t want your business
No problem.
Same here, it pays off to be able to make beverages: soda, coffee, and more, in my own house. After all, if everything goes bad, and you can’t go to a store, where else to go in order to make it?
Yeah, that movie showed way too slow a progression into idiocracy. Add the global warming hysteria, and it all happens even faster.
Well, there is social responsibility, where a company does better and sells better because they contribute to a cause, however, it is important to sell in order to rake up the money to do so.
I can’t believe Starbucks is still in business.... McDonald’s coffee is so much better and isn’t ridiculously priced.Years ago, I was a Dunkin' Donuts fan, but McDonald's won me over when they made that deal with Green Mountain.
I've never cared for Starbucks.
WOW! Howard Schultz is like soooooooo accepting of people who don't think like he does... /s
what a jerk.
They have some espresso that will stand up without a cup. They also have "Monk-Shots" - extra powerful K-cups.
And you don't get any more conservative than this bunch. When the Bishop of Cheyenne paid them a pastoral visit, they were all riding around on 4 wheelers with deer rifles. Proof:
That is the Bish in the orange headgear. Very cool prelate.
Yep.
They are trying really hard to go out of business lately.
Nothing to see here,2013 article
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