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Starbucks CEO's refugee comments sour customer views of chain: survey
Yahoo Finance ^

Posted on 03/10/2017 4:39:20 AM PST by Red in Blue PA

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp's (SBUX.O) vow to hire thousands of refugees after President Donald Trump's first executive order that temporarily banned travel from seven mostly-Muslim nations appears to be hurting customer sentiment of the coffee chain.

Trump supporters have used Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites to call for a boycott since Jan. 29, when Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz vowed to hire 10,000 refugees over five years in the countries where it does business.

Schultz in a letter to employees said the promise of the American Dream was "being called into question" and that "the civility and human rights we have all taken for granted for so long are under attack."

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To: Red in Blue PA

But... but...Aren’t Starbucks’ staff and clientele mostly comprised of guilty white liberal hipsters and aren’t they all about Diversity?
Maybe those latte-slurping Gender Studies majors balked at the idea of surrendering their barista careers, eh?


21 posted on 03/10/2017 5:07:07 AM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Paul Newman coffee is awesome.


22 posted on 03/10/2017 5:07:11 AM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Even before the CEO said he did not want investors or customers opposed to homo-hitching (marriage it ain't) Starbucks was on my NFW (No Fricking Way) list.

Only thing more I can do is drive an alternate route so I don't have to drive by their stores.

23 posted on 03/10/2017 5:08:02 AM PST 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: Red in Blue PA

what they need is more stores to relieve the crowding

Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded


24 posted on 03/10/2017 5:08:37 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: Londo Molari
It is so crowded, nobody goes there anymore?
A classic Yogi-ism. There's plenty of Cuban owned mom and pop bodegas around Tampa that serve great strong coffee at much more reasonable prices and without the pretentious aura Starbucks is known for. Besides given Starbucks progressive corporate culture you'd think they would want us to BUY LOCALLY.
25 posted on 03/10/2017 5:10:33 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an Islamophobe like it's a bad thing)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Target and Macy’s and JC Penny are still making excuses for their plummeting revenue.


26 posted on 03/10/2017 5:11:17 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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To: Red in Blue PA

It’s the holier than thou attitude, people might not know the details but they can sniff out the holier than thous a continent away.


27 posted on 03/10/2017 5:16:19 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Shut up and make the coffee.

Haven’t been in a Starbucks since the gun letter.


28 posted on 03/10/2017 5:26:43 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Watching Obama tap dance.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Fortunately I’m not a coffee snob. Just the opposite. I can’t stand flavored or fancy coffees of any sort. If I buy a cup of coffee from a store, it’s DD or Burger King. I don’t like McD as I think it’s hazelnut or something.


29 posted on 03/10/2017 5:28:40 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Red in Blue PA

Muzzie immigrant women can’t touch or wipe themselves, so they use water bottles to rinse themselves. It leaves a wet unsanitary mess all over the stall, empty bottles laying around, a toilet seat nobody wants to sit on. It’s just nasty. Hire away, $tarbuck$.


30 posted on 03/10/2017 5:31:10 AM PST by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Well, since I never go to Starbucks, I can’t boycott it. It always seemed like a bit of a fad to me. Hopefully this dope is pushing the end of the fad along a little with his radical liberal comments.


31 posted on 03/10/2017 5:50:25 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: rbg81

Walmart sells ‘great value’ ‘Donut Shop’ coffee for about $6.50 a can.

From what I can tell it’s the same as Dunkin’ Donuts coffee except you brew at home.


32 posted on 03/10/2017 5:51:48 AM PST by Beagle8U (Long live Yoga Pants! ( and boycott 84 lumber. Let's bankrupt the bastards!))
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To: Red in Blue PA
The idiodic business decision is to do something solely to be PC rather than looking at the operational requirements for basic business sense.

Another obvious thing that is stupid is to hire 10K employees that are not proficient in the language of their host country.

Even worse, can you image an employee accusing you of a microagression for ordering your coffee black?

33 posted on 03/10/2017 6:46:23 AM PST by pfflier
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To: grania
I routinely drive through for McD's coffee, tastes the best and at 1.00 can't be beat.
34 posted on 03/10/2017 6:50:28 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Red in Blue PA

“It’s so crowded, nobody goes there anymore.”


35 posted on 03/10/2017 6:56:03 AM PST by aquila48
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To: lafroste

I stopped going about a year ago because they have a policy that places preference of the online orders over the human customers. It was taking longer and longer to get a cup with fewer people in line.


36 posted on 03/10/2017 7:00:13 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: pfflier

“Even worse, can you image an employee accusing you of a microagression for ordering your coffee black?”

Or not ordering black. Do you have something against black?


37 posted on 03/10/2017 7:00:18 AM PST by aquila48
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To: junta

Today that’s known as “virtue-signaling”.


38 posted on 03/10/2017 7:03:33 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Red in Blue PA

Their brown DRINK isn’t coffee and now they think adding third world immigrants to their native airhead staff is a good thing. That might fly in Seattle, but flyover country isn’t buying.


39 posted on 03/10/2017 7:07:50 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: aquila48

I see a $100K settlement on that conundrum.


40 posted on 03/10/2017 7:34:40 AM PST by pfflier
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