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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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?
Paul Newman coffee is awesome.
Only thing more I can do is drive an alternate route so I don't have to drive by their stores.
what they need is more stores to relieve the crowding
Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded
Target and Macy’s and JC Penny are still making excuses for their plummeting revenue.
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.
Shut up and make the coffee.
Haven’t been in a Starbucks since the gun letter.
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.
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, $tarbuck$.
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.
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.
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?
“It’s so crowded, nobody goes there anymore.”
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.
“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?
Today that’s known as “virtue-signaling”.
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.
I see a $100K settlement on that conundrum.
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