I despise Starbucks. Hate the coffee. Hate the company. Hate the smarmy leftist CEO Harold Schultz.
This is pompous a-hole who told someone at a board meeting: “If you support traditional marriage over gay marriage, Starbucks doesn’t want your business.”
This whole Starbucks issue is just silly. They’ve never had “Merry Christmas” on their cups. They have holiday cups that the design changes yearly. No-one has told their barista’s to not say Merry Christmas. They even sell Christmas gifts there.
As for the CEO stating what you have said, that was completely fabricated. He had one of his shareholders argue with him over gay marriage.
His statement was exactly this, “If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38% you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.”. HIs reply was based soley on business.
Starbucks is sold all over the world. I’ve personally seen them in Brazil, Mexico and Japan. Their marketting is done in the USA. They are not a Mom and Pop shop anymore and try to please the majority to keep sales up.
The guy who started this whole “controversy” is a troll. He is just looking for his 15 minutes of fame and we have given it to him. That being said, he looks pretty stupid.
If you don’t like the coffee, don’t drink it. It’s very simple. The color of a cup shouldn’t be the answer though. I don’t recall seeing scripture on any other coffee chains cup. I may have missed it in my travels though....