Posted on 08/09/2013 7:10:12 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Starbucks is closing early in Newtown today as a gun rights groups holds a "Starbucks Appreciation Day."
"Today, advocacy groups from different sides of the open carry debate announced plans to visit our Newtown, Connecticut store to bring attention to their points of view," Chris Carr, executive vice president for U.S. Retail at Starbucks posted on the company's Web site. "We recognize that there is significant and genuine passion surrounding this topic, however out of respect for Newtown and everything the community has been through we decided to close our store early before the event started."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcconnecticut.com ...
Well, maybe they should just launch a boycott instead? Seems like maybe they don’t want their business after all.
After 9-11 Starbucks declined donations of bottled water to First Responders.
I’m serious.
I would say to keep reholding the event until Starbucks decides to keep the store open for it.
I agree. Make a statement. Hold it tomorrow. If they close again hold it the next day. Each time, make a clear statement that self defense prevents shootings.
Starbucks is so yesterday. They can keep their burned coffee and ridiculously high prices.
They are the ones losing revenue and hurting their employees, not the protestors. I hope the protest becomes a regular event.
Ah...the Obama approach.
RUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN.
Excellent idea. After a week of zero business, they would come down off that high horse.
That was one shop in NYC. It wasn’t corp policy.
Dunkin' Donuts still makes the best cup of coffee that can be purchased from a franchise. IMHO Beats Starbucks hands down if for no other reason ... you can order a cup of coffee and the order taker is not waiting for all the frilly additions.
I can’t believe so many think that Starbucks is pro 2nd Amendment, you are fooling yourselves, You think Howard Schultz has a Gun Cabinet with a Colt AR-15???
You’re High
Uh, it’s a private business, not government compulsion.
They don’t want to be ground zero for something they don’t understand and don’t want to be involved in when it entails a lot of armed strangers getting wound up to make a point about a locally painful event.
Starbucks just wants to sell coffee. They don’t want to be the stage where a political group dances on the blood of local victims to make a point; this is behavior we condemn in the “antis”, don’t do the same.
So IOW, according to your logic, the left be be involved in activism but the right cannot.
Exhibit A of why we are losing our freedoms!
“Starbucks is so yesterday. They can keep their burned coffee and ridiculously high prices.”
Starbucks is crap! They are the Mickey D’s of the coffee world. Now Peet’s, that’s a whole other matter. Excellent coffee! BTW, Starbuck’s, Tully’s and some others started in Seattle. Must tell you something about the people there. They are all sleepwalking through life. But again, it rains a lot there, so maybe coffee brightens their “dreary days.” waiting for the sun to shine.
“Must tell you something about the people there.”
Well then what does that say about the millions of people throughout the world who frequent Starbucks daily? It’s not just Seattlites, is it?
...a native Seattlite.
I’ve had Peet’s...not as good as sbux and very overpriced.
McDonald’s has good coffee for 1 dollar.
Guns are a big part of what gave these morons who run Starbucks the right to do business and to express their first amendment rights to celebrate sodomy.
Yet Starbucks pisses on true, biblical marriage AND the second amendment.
Ironic, ain’t it?
Whoa. Starbucks most certainly DOES take political stands. They do more than just “sell coffee”.
Your point about it being a private business is absolutely correct, however.
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