Posted on 04/29/2016 3:15:36 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz visited Ferguson last year, he saw the still-visible signs of unrest. But he also saw promise, and in July the company announced it would open a location there and partner with a local nonprofit to create job training opportunities.
On Saturday, Ferguson’s first Starbucks will open at 10776 West Florissant Ave., the company said Friday.
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One riot and it’s goodbye latte.
Let’s start the pool on the shutter date - I say Nov 1st.
This will be their loss-leader store. Could not happen to a better company. Got 2 of them in my town & I never set foot inside of them.
I wouldn’t put any kind of a business in Ferguson for the next 40 years.
Do they sell Swisher Sweets?
I own shares of SBUX and it ha been good to me, but this sort of nonsense pisses me off as the CEO is using **my** money to play social experiments and to make himself feel better.
that brand still doesn’t have any coffee taste
I wonder what took them so long.
He visited last year, the town said they would do it in June or July, and then... Did they need to hire someone to clean up the neighborhood first ?
Who is buying stuff at this starbucks ?
I don’t even think it will last to the next riot. It will close up after the first robbery and murder of a cashier or after two non-fatal robberies.
I bet that place is insured for ten times what it is worth. That is about the only way that it has 'promise' as a profitable business venture.
Many people have stated that Starbucks’ coffee tastes burned so they’re building it in the right place.
It must be because of the good-heartedness of the owner(s) for their venture, why not giving out freebies, too?
Yeah right.
Overpriced coffee drinks and $5 lattes.
I hope they lose money and their store gets robbed.
The CEO should be about the business, I agree with you. Aside from the politics, I’m not a big fan of the product. I don’t drink much coffee, but when I do, I find their stuff too bitter. So it’s easy for me to not go in there.
Barring arson, they’ll stubbornly keep this store open, no matter what. Public relations with their customer demographic.
Everything’s free there, right?
Come on Whole Foods,join the fun
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