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Starbucks CEO Doesn’t Want Your Money If You’re Against Gay Marriage
Investorplace.com ^ | 3/26/13 | Nate Wooley

Posted on 03/26/2013 9:34:13 PM PDT by GilGil

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To: EEGator

Great CEO. Alienate over 50% of the population. Do they teach that to people who get their MBAs?


I had a cow-orker who was taking business courses in her spare time with the goal of getting an MBA degree. (She was a real self-starter and a pretty good sysadmin.) At one point she told us about taking a one-day seminar for managers. I just had to ask...

“Is that the one where they stick the needle in your head and suck out half your brain?”

Peet (notabigfanofmanagement)


61 posted on 03/27/2013 4:50:35 AM PDT by Peet (Notice: Due to the high price of ammo, there will be NO warning shots.)
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To: GilGil
Management has gone from "The customer is always right" to " Just shut up, buy what we sell, and we will tell you what is right."

Guess Starbucks is countinig on low information customers.

62 posted on 03/27/2013 4:58:05 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: GilGil

I used to go to Starbucks every day. I stopped going about a year ago and do not miss it one bit.


63 posted on 03/27/2013 4:59:52 AM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)
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To: Blue Highway

Boycott? I am all IN!


64 posted on 03/27/2013 5:04:12 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.u)
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To: GilGil
“You can sell your shares of Starbucks. It’s a free country.”

Schultz, we can do more than not buying shares, selling ones we own and patronizing your business. However, you're not concerned, you're INVINCIBLE!

65 posted on 03/27/2013 5:08:57 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: GilGil
I am a waiting for someone to start a new coffee shop "Straight Coffee"...

FWIW, the inlaws have a former coffee taste tester in their mist where they reside. His synopsis? Starbucks is awful, Dunkin is good coffee...

66 posted on 03/27/2013 5:13:56 AM PDT by taildragger (( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
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To: GilGil

Since the day that Starbucks refused some troops a bag or two or coffee to send to their mates in Afghanistan, i have not bought a “FourBucks”!

Through the CEO stating, “You had better not do that!”, he has forgotten one basic principle of business.

The customer is king, or says the guy on “Restaurant Stakeout”.

Folks vote with their feet.

“i’m walkin’ .. yeah, yeah, yeah, i’m walkin’...”


67 posted on 03/27/2013 5:41:47 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: RC one

Maybe he has a “vested” interest in queers.

I agree with him about staying away, I will stay out of StarButts.


68 posted on 03/27/2013 6:05:12 AM PDT by X-spurt (Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
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To: LifeComesFirst

then why did the stockholder in the article express dismay at Sbux’ lower revenues since the CEO’s support? Wonder if the CEO is gay or his company is about to implode. TheSbux products are terrible for health.


69 posted on 03/27/2013 8:15:18 AM PDT by GilGil
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To: chainsaw
I don’t like paying $5.00 for cup of coffee anyway.

Nor I. I've bought their beans in the past - but from now on I'll look to the many other vendors of quality coffee beans.

70 posted on 03/27/2013 8:32:36 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: GilGil

He don’t have to worry about getting my money. obama already got it.


71 posted on 03/27/2013 8:35:59 AM PDT by sport
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To: GilGil

I’ll oblige Starbocks by not giving them any of my money.

See how they fall.


72 posted on 03/27/2013 12:34:29 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: GilGil

Ok, no problem. Now I’ll make it a point not to buy their stuff.


73 posted on 03/27/2013 12:36:22 PM PDT by jughandle
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To: GilGil

Starbucks sells a product that is a luxury, and more expensive than ordinary coffee. Their lower sells could be due to all sorts of things related to our down economy.

Now, if the CEO of a more family-oriented company like a clothing store said something similar, I could believe that their sales would be affected, but not a company like Starbucks, or Apple. You know, an image company that liberals love.


74 posted on 03/27/2013 8:03:12 PM PDT by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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To: GilGil

I’ve had a fagbucks gift card in my wallet for years that I got at work. I’ve never made it in to use the card...glad I read this, now I can take it outside and set it on fire. :D


75 posted on 03/27/2013 8:10:55 PM PDT by eldoradude (Let's water the tree of liberty with THEIR blood...)
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To: eldoradude

Look for news that will say something like Starbucks is shutting down hundreds of stores or doing a merger or something like that. This is the kiss of death a la JCPenney. McDonalds and the like must be laughing all the way to the bank.


76 posted on 03/29/2013 9:25:09 AM PDT by GilGil
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To: LifeComesFirst

Except that we are in an economy that wants value not causes.Liberals are especially cheap. Look for stories that says that Starbucks is shutting stores etc. There is so much competition that offers coffee for so much less. That is the problem. Outside the coffee Starbucks products are terrible. Sbux is a one trick pony and this economy will not treat it well.


77 posted on 03/29/2013 9:29:05 AM PDT by GilGil
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To: GilGil

This is what I drink. It is loaded with antioxidants.

http://www.tiemans.com/


78 posted on 03/30/2013 7:57:36 AM PDT by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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