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Starbucks' former CEO Howard Schultz quits company' board after he was branded a 'distraction' over anti-unionization ranks in Congress
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 09/14/2023 5:42:55 PM PDT by algore

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I remember Starbucks before Schultz, it was a fun place that had all kinds of different coffee beans and spices, you would go in and they would grind you coffee or any mix you wanted. Sure they had some tables where you could try the coffee but it was mostly samples of their newest variety.

I think he might make a surprise run for President, if so that could force a debate between kennedy, kamala, and him, biden would never show up, at least not if it was a live debate.

1 posted on 09/14/2023 5:42:55 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore

They have been around for 40 years??


2 posted on 09/14/2023 5:53:41 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media.)
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To: algore

Such a racist company

They were forced to pay millions to a white manager for racism


3 posted on 09/14/2023 5:58:54 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: algore

Happy to say I’ve never bought anything from Starbucks.


4 posted on 09/14/2023 6:06:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: algore

(Howard Schultz)

Is he the Woke clown who said don’t come into Starbucks if you don’t support gay marriage?

Either way, I’ve made certain to avoid Starbucks especially since that day.

The friend who told me about it? Got mad when I said supporting Hillary was stupid. I had no idea he was a Hillary supporter.

THEN he told me that he was starting to believe...... Barack Hussein Obama.

AFTER he told me about the Starbucks thing and it offended him what their agenda was.

Strange times.......


5 posted on 09/14/2023 6:10:56 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: willk

they were started and formed by a very different set of owners.

It was a very wonderful place where you could get the best coffee beans from all over the world.

Schultz bought the company in 81 or 82? and turned it in a different and more profitable direction.

in the beginning he and Tom O’Keefe of Tully’s battled over locations and stores, Tom was a nice guy and he got stomped on by Schultz


6 posted on 09/14/2023 6:16:38 PM PDT by algore
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To: SaveFerris

Yeah. He’s THAT Woke Clown.


7 posted on 09/14/2023 6:20:16 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: tennmountainman

Thought so.

Thanks for letting me know.

Mark 8:36-37
King James Version

36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+8%3A36-37&version=KJV


8 posted on 09/14/2023 6:23:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: algore

Starbucks is just another word for pretense.


9 posted on 09/14/2023 6:28:20 PM PDT by yetidog
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To: Secret Agent Man

Happy to day I could get Kona beans from them many times during the year


10 posted on 09/14/2023 6:30:32 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: algore

“I think he might make a surprise run for President, if so that could force a debate between kennedy, kamala, and him, biden would never show up, at least not if it was a live debate.”

This would be the best thing ever. Like the circus meets the Hollywood Pride March.

Get your popcorn ready.


11 posted on 09/14/2023 6:35:52 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: algore

Peet’s Coffee was another place supposed to be like the original Starbucks. They may still be.


12 posted on 09/14/2023 6:38:50 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: algore
I like that Starbucks still says "Christmas."

Every year, they actually sell "Christmas" coffee.

13 posted on 09/14/2023 7:05:49 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Pelham

I met Welcome Weaver and had dinner at his house once in the 70s, they sent me popcorn for Christmas every year for decades.

I need to go find some Weaver Popcorn and stock up just in case I need it.

(pretty sure either I will need either popcorn, or the death reaper chips) still not sure which yet


14 posted on 09/14/2023 7:06:40 PM PDT by algore
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To: Pelham

Both Peet’s and Starbucks stock lots of rainbow merchandise (mugs, cookies, etc.) during Pride month.


15 posted on 09/14/2023 7:06:53 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: algore

I had to look him up:

https://www.huntingtoncountyhonors.org/Honorees/Welcome-Weaver


16 posted on 09/14/2023 7:19:24 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Angelino97

“Both Peet’s and Starbucks stock lots of rainbow merchandise (mugs, cookies, etc.) during Pride month.”

There’s a poem that uses the line “The love that dare not speak its name” as a euphemism for homosexuality.

In 21st century America it’s “the love that never shuts up”.


17 posted on 09/14/2023 7:25:52 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: willk

They were just a local chain in Seattle for many years. If I recall correctly, they expanded greatly in the 1990s and early 2000s, both across America and internationally.


18 posted on 09/14/2023 8:17:05 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: All
Biden niece and Obama employee w/ sensitive US govt information to peddle.
She is now a Starbuck's VP according to Linked in.

Biden’s niece Casey Owens - his sister’s child - aided and abetted Hunter’s influence peddling schemes which benefitted the Biden family's wealth accumulation.

Casey Owens official US govt trip to China was with Obama’s US Treasury delegation, "The US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue team," led by then-Treasury Secy Timothy Geithner.

During the visit, Owens was privy to sensitive US govt information WRT China's multi billion dollar sovereign wealth fund. Owens passed on the info to the opportunistic Hunter as a possible investment contact who soon followed up.

19 posted on 09/14/2023 9:17:48 PM PDT by Liz ( 2024 Dems will have the same guy withthe same team around him, just older.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The idea of brewing coffee in an espresso machine came to Schultz when he visited Italy. I too enjoyed espresso coffee when in Naples. It was his idea to recreates those Italian coffee houses in Seattle. It was Bill Gates Sr that helped finance his first coffee house, still in business, at 1912 Pike Street in Seattle:


20 posted on 09/14/2023 11:00:52 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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