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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$5.00 fr overpriced burnt coffee is BS. McDonalds has coffee for $1.09 out the door. Plus McDonalds has the same crappy service as Starbucks.
This is just to keep out the riff-raff.
If you are clean, well-dressed and conduct a transaction there, they will 9 times out of 10 give you access to a restroom if you politely and discreetly ask.
Giving them space in a restaurant during the day isn’t going to end homelessness for one single person.
The restaurant isn’t their home. And giving them space in the restaurant isn’t doing anything to get them working and into an apartmemt/home.
Its an idiotic poster. Because feelings.
“Starbucks is a great racket. High prices for sugared coffee drinks.
A cup of freshly ground, organic coffee, brewed at home, is much better, and much, much cheaper”
Yeah, but no one sees you drinking superior coffee at home. Being seen, and therefore being cool, is all that matters to tens of millions of losers paying their $4 for 14oz. of burnt coffee.
I work at a college library. Before COVID we used to get people asking to study or read there because they were avoiding the public libraries.
yeah, but you don’t get a cup with that cool logo ... that will be thrown in the trash.
Honestly a small town coffee shop is far superior to this place. Starbucks has certainly done well with branding, however, to get people coming into a mediocre shop.
I lived in cities for most of my life due to earning potential in my profession. I loved it for the most part.
Currently we live in the country on acreage with great views which we love. We do have two neighbors we see which I like so we can tell we are alive! Yes, we do love the country over the city currently!!!!
We move where God wants us to be when he needs us...
Everyone here at FR should make a sign and hangout in front or nearby Starbucks, or homeless shelter and generate more foot traffic... once a month by just a few thousand do goodness could help this CEO “out”!
Funny, SF, I almost got into a fist fight there, at Fisherman’s Warf, 22 years ago. A bum refused to let me walk by without giving a donation, got in my face screaming at me.
I live in FL now, and have a neighbor from California. He admits, the state is insane. He gave up on it and moved to FL.
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