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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is paying the price for going ‘woke’
NY Post ^ | July 23, 2022 1:03pm | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 07/23/2022 2:12:53 PM PDT by conservative98

Howard Schultz should have listened to me.

A decade ago, I wrote a book in which I observed that one of New York City’s most infamous and intractable municipal problems — its lack of public restrooms — had been in part solved by the private sector, and by one business in particular: Starbucks. That was the case in my neighborhood, at least: On any given afternoon, the Starbucks at Park Row and Beekman would have a restroom line ten or twenty long, mostly European tourists carrying Century 21 shopping bags — it must have been in a guidebook somewhere.

It was a classic case of the private sector creating a public good while bringing in new customers. But

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Schultz ushered in a policy allowing anyone to come off the street and use Starbucks’ bathrooms, without having to pay like these customers. The move backfired when junkies started using the facilities to shoot up.

Only a few years after opening all of its bathrooms to the general public as a grand social-justice gesture, the coffee chain is closing stores around the country — mostly in big, progressive, Democrat-run cities — because the locations have become too dangerous for customers and staff. Homeless people camp in the bathrooms or make mad scenes in the cafes. So many junkies are using Starbucks restrooms to shoot up that the company has been obliged to install needle-disposal boxes in some of its stores — Welcome to Portland! — and the employees who had to clean up those messes understandably complained about possible exposure to HIV and hepatitis.

Here are two things that don’t go together very well: 1.) Selling caffeinated adult milkshakes for six bucks a cup and 2.) hepatitis.

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To: conservative98

About 15 years ago or so I was in a Starbucks in Boston with my young daughter. We purchased food there and we were waiting for the restroom to open. It took forever and everyone in line was wondering why the person inside was taking so long. After quite a long while the door opened and two young men walked out. I was aghast. I didn’t even want to go in there after that.


21 posted on 07/23/2022 2:50:55 PM PDT by cantfindagoodscreenname (I really hate not knowing what was said in the deleted posts....)
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To: EEGator

You’re right, of course, but a psych evaluation, medication, rehab, and job training wouldn’t let them feel so good and smug about themselves as that brain-dead, nonsensical poster.


22 posted on 07/23/2022 2:53:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“...see whether we in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I was on a business trip to San Diego maybe 20 or 25 years ago and brought the family. We stopped in the lobby of a downtown hotel where there was a single-person restroom off the lobby. I went to use the restroom and heard two guys in there making the most God-awful noises. I hustled the family out of that hotel stat. One of the grossest things I’ve encountered.


23 posted on 07/23/2022 2:56:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“...see whether we in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”)
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To: conservative98

A company gets the unions that it deserves. Despite leftist union busters, the employees in the blue core areas are opting for representation to protect them from their elitist overlord.


24 posted on 07/23/2022 3:00:37 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: packagingguy

Plus he French are not noted for brushing their teeth


25 posted on 07/23/2022 3:01:43 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: conservative98

Kevin Williamson? Oh, is he that real big fat guy?


26 posted on 07/23/2022 3:06:29 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: BrexitBen

I think I’m the only who brings his own coffee to work. I really dont get why you have to pay $6 for a “small” size coffee from that overrated place.

Here in L.A. I know ALL those places that closed down. It didnt surprise me one bit. Those locations are ground zero for violent homeless/antifa to do their thing. The only locations that I know of are “safe” are the ones INSIDE GROCERY CHAINS like Target and Vons..


27 posted on 07/23/2022 3:11:04 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: conservative98

Is this the CEO that allowed workers to spit in policemen drinks?


28 posted on 07/23/2022 3:12:54 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: conservative98

Allowing someone to use a business’ restroom is somehow supposed to end homelessness?


29 posted on 07/23/2022 3:13:54 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: skr

They got some bad PR for kicking some homeless out of their store a few years ago - so they changed their policy. We see that the change in policy has not paid off.


30 posted on 07/23/2022 3:30:43 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: skr

They got some bad PR for kicking some homeless out of their store a few years ago - so they changed their policy. We see that the change in policy has not paid off.


31 posted on 07/23/2022 3:30:43 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: metmom

San Francisco Starbucks about 4 years ago...I was in line of about 20 for coffee. Strange short man in front of me, almost midget size. He kept motioning me to get in front of him and finally I did, guarding my purse. He kept collecting food when we got close. He caused a skirmish right when my coffee was ready. He screamed foul words where children were present and scared. He then ran out of the store with probably $20 worth of food. He went across the street and he and his dog had breakfast on starbucks!!!

We avoid the city, which I loved for two decades, completely now. Cannot even ride BART from Fremont to SF without being threatened by yutes, thugs and druggies just daring you to look at them wrong.


32 posted on 07/23/2022 3:31:23 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

I’ve posted often that all a CEO has to do when pressed by the “woke” is offer a simple statement that “We don’t get involved in politics. We make cars.” (or coffee or sandwiches or whatever).

A good 90 percent of Americans would appreciate a simple statement like that, and the other 10 percent probably weren’t customers to begin with.


33 posted on 07/23/2022 3:49:05 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

I never was a big fan of cities, and I wouldn’t want to even go near them now.

I like my off the beaten path house where we can’t see the neighbors and what we do see are deer, and owls, and hummingbirds, and dragonflies, and the occasional eagle from the nearby river.


34 posted on 07/23/2022 3:52:08 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: JennysCool

Exactly.

I’d give someone like that my business before someone catering to the woke crowd trying to appease them.


35 posted on 07/23/2022 3:52:54 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: rktman

Me neither.

Long for the day we hear kids asking their dads; “Dad, what’s a (Muslim, communist, socialist, LGBTQ+, Starbucks)?”


36 posted on 07/23/2022 4:04:31 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: conservative98

But has he learned anything?


37 posted on 07/23/2022 4:11:45 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: BrexitBen

I don’t even buy ground coffee with Starbucks brand.
Why anyone would pay 6 bucks for any coffee drink?


38 posted on 07/23/2022 4:20:06 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: algore

There is also the problem that they recently offered to pay travel expenses for women who needed abortions if their state made abortion illegal.

Businesses never, ever admit that they are being boycotted, since that makes the boycott even bigger as more people now know about it.

I see these closings as camouflage for the harm the boycott by life-loving people has caused them.


39 posted on 07/23/2022 4:31:21 PM PDT by firebrand ( )
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To: packagingguy
On the other side of the coin you can just do it French style and pee on the sidewalk.

Same thing when I was coming into VietNam in'69. A lady squatted and peed with people walking all around her.

A little culture shock for a bumpkin from Louisiana.

40 posted on 07/23/2022 4:34:54 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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