'We Ain’t Shopping at Starbucks No More': Seattle Protesters Call for Boycott

Storyful via Yahoo ^ | 7/16/20

[Libloather]

Protesters marched through Seattle, Washington, on July 16, in a demonstration calling for a boycott of the Starbucks coffee chain.

Footage of the march shows protesters chanting “we ain’t shopping at Starbucks no more.” Protesters called for Starbucks to cut all ties with and support for Seattle Police Department during the demonstration.

Starbucks’s first store opened in Seattle in 1971, and since then the company has grown to become the largest coffee chain in the world. However the business has come under fire for a series of racially charged incidents.

[ocrp1982]

I’m right there with you. Paying stupid dollars for burnt beans has never made sense to me.
Furthermore, one of the benefits of a coffee in the morning and mid-afternoon is the caffeine pick me up. The more a coffee bean is roasted the lesser the caffeine content not to mention the sharp increase in bitterness.

[lasereye]

Since the incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks where a manager tried to make someone who didn’t purchase anything leave, they’ve had a policy of letting anyone who wants to come in and hang around, without purchasing anything. They had some special training to make sure their managers won’t eject anyone. Now there are many such people hanging around at urban Starbucks, and paying customers would rather go elsewhere.

Did that satisfy the loons? Of course not. A virtue signaler like Howard Schultz, or whoever is running the company currently, will just try to do some new thing to satisfy them.

[xp38]

Indeed a sight to behold. I recall back during the Bush elections someone noted how Starbucks concentration of outlets pretty much matched the dim blue areas of the USA. The urban hipster demo pretty much.

[ocrp1982]

You’re bragging about that here on FreeRepublic? Really? Talk about tone-deaf.

[Falconspeed]

“Starbucks’s first store opened in Seattle in 1971” with the help of Cosco, also from Seattle. The owners of both companies planned to grow together and have done very well. The problem is that Starbucks has garbage coffee: picked from the worst crops that are full of pesticides. Burnt coffee? The taste of pesticides. The Starbucks in Berkeley has been boycotted since the 1980’s and the Starbucks on Haight St. in San Francisco has been boycotted by locals since they opened. Peets coffee, owned by Starbucks since 1990, has a better product.

[mrsmith]

” Today’s leftists are the best leftists ever.

They change the required talking points at least once a day.

If you don’t recite them like a robot you become an enemy of the people..;. “

[Covenantor]

Odd, because of the huge ad on the yahoo site I searched the Seattle news stations and couldn’t any mention of the Starbucks protesters marching through Seattle. One would think that such a huge march would gather more attention given the potential for violence and arson...but crickets

Any hard news source about this protest march?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Starbucks is burnt, but if you want nuclear tested black as coal coffee then go for Peet’s.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I think they’re just snacking on them at this point

[matt04]

Good catch. Maybe should have spent more time in school.

[WKUHilltopper]

So your years of sucking up to tyrants haven’t paid off,eh? Tough nuts!

[matt04]

Based on the few videos I’ve seen, the “ain’t” shopping at many places in Seattle as at least 50-90% of the stores were boarded up due to the “peaceful” protests.

[ConservativeInPA]

My daughter was wearing a tshirt similar to this the other day.

I didn't have my glasses on and asked, "Why in the world are you wearing that shirt? You don't even like Starbucks." She said, "Daddy, read the shirt. I got it at a gun show." Yes, that was a proud daddy moment.

[matt04]

Burnt coffee aside, they never once said how Starbucks “supports” SPD and what they don’t want them to do. Do they want them to refuse service to SPD? Refuse to call SPD if they need help?

Quality reporting from Yahoo! News.

[proud American in Canada]

Wow, the anarchists and commies can afford Starbucks?

Pampered little darlings.

[FenwickBabbitt]

Funny how they keep attacking their own. The left is like one big suicide party.

[DoodleBob]

Starbucks is an oddity...they don't ban concealed carry people from entering but they reversed course to allow BLM flair. Now they're getting beat up for serving police.

Starbucks is inescapable in many corporate parks. Their coffee is not as good as Dunkin Donuts but it's better than Au Bon Pain and 7-11.

But nothing tops Sheetz.

[Bogle]

I once heard an angry Starbucks employee tell a co-worker that the world’s population could live in a place half the size of Texas. I think his point was that humans are raping the earth or causing global warming or killing jungle bears or something.

[Viking2002]

Never heard of them. But we're in flyover country, so I suppose we're considered too low-brow to pretend to appreciate incinerated coffee beans that came out of a monkey's butt. I enjoty some domestic coffees, like Eight O'Clock (yeah, I went there, damn it), Dunkin' Donuts, Maxwell House, even Folgers. But, I also appreciate some of the finer European roasts and bean blends, too. Hands-down favorites: Jamaican Blue Mountain and Hawaiian Kona. No blends, 100% pure. Whole bean. Freshly ground by moi. Pure spring water. Black, no cream, no sugar or sweetener. Black and right from the brewer. In fact, just put the cup under the filter, and give me the first one straight up. When I had a Gevalia account, I'd order whole bean, grind it to my satisfaction, and put my mug right where the pot should be, then let it rip. This ain't your daddy's 7 Eleven coffee.

[JennysCool]

Is this Communist Revolution already eating its own?

Probably. This whole crazy national episode has really been mainly white teens and 20-somethings acting out like "revolutionaries" after having been quarantined for three or four months with Mom and Dad. And they move on to the "next big thing" lightning-quick. America's always been a country of fads. Americans tire easily of the same old thing. And all this '60s and '70s nostalgic redux is becoming pretty old, pretty fast.