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Starbucks Decides To Turn Its Cafes Into Homeless Shelters (COO Rosalind Brewer)
American Thinker ^ | 5-23-2018 | Ed Straker

Posted on 05/23/2018 6:21:11 AM PDT by blam

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To: Ikeon

By the time of the Nov 2020 elections, I predict that Starbuck’s operations manual will be a poster child for how NOT TO RUN A BUSINESS.


41 posted on 05/23/2018 8:20:30 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: pepsionice

I’m waiting for winter to kick in, and see the number of homeless people increase dramatically just to keep warm.


42 posted on 05/23/2018 8:25:17 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: EdnaMode

I’m glad I do not patronize Starbucks restaurants. By now, with such a stupid suicidal egalitarian policy, it would have approximately the same appeal as sitting on a NYC subway car with a stinking bum stretched out on a seat.


43 posted on 05/23/2018 8:36:48 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: ridesthemiles

Right up there with J.C. Pennys


44 posted on 05/23/2018 8:36:49 AM PDT by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: EdnaMode

Enjoy the roaches and rats. I think Starbucks charges extra for them.


45 posted on 05/23/2018 8:40:47 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: blam

I say we all begin transporting homeless to the local Starbucks. Free rides. I’m in!


46 posted on 05/23/2018 8:56:50 AM PDT by jobim
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To: wmileo
"Starbucks Stores are already “Gun Free Zones” as of a few years back."

I've often thought of attaching a sign close to my front door:

NOT A GUN FREE ZONE.
TRY NEXT DOOR.

Won't do such to my nice neighbors. Plus, the wife would go ballistic...lol.

47 posted on 05/23/2018 8:58:15 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: blam

Maybe the coffee is really weak because they haven’t woken up yet what they are doing. They are sleep walking towards some unreal dream of utopia. Starbucks will become the Star and Sickle of the leftist notion of paradise... where everybody can use the washroom for their daily shower and to shoot up in to experience true unitary paradise — at one with the cosmic order that exists without God.

But all the real trendies, the radial chic, the real interlopers will avoid the place like the plague... because you actually might get the plague... and that is not hip, despite all the fashionable courtship with death, the romance of living on the edge, the pale sickly pose of the “artist” that hipsters are prone to.

So Starbuck will be out of its base lucre real quick and cannot help the bean farmers in Guadalajara or wherever they grow magic beans. It will become the new none workers paradise and a source for other drugs than coffee.


48 posted on 05/23/2018 8:59:04 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: blam

Left wing racists can kill a thriving business faster than an economic depression can.

Costco and Dunking Donut stores and stock owners will be laughing to their bank to deposit their new gains.

Lenin and Marx are winning thanks to PC!


49 posted on 05/23/2018 8:59:35 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: blam
Remember that Starbucks' employees wash their hands where their new fans are camped out.
50 posted on 05/23/2018 9:02:19 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: LibertarianLiz
"I’m waiting for winter to kick in, and see the number of homeless people increase dramatically just to keep warm."

Very good point. It's gonna be fun to watch the closings of so many Starbums come next winter, or even before.

51 posted on 05/23/2018 9:03:07 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: blam

To finish their business, Starbucks needs to hire Colin Kaperdic as their spokesperson.

Then, have full size photos of Colin kneeling in front of our flag wearing his Che T shirt.


52 posted on 05/23/2018 9:09:21 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: blam

“I’ve got an idea! Let’s chase away all our customers!”


53 posted on 05/23/2018 9:27:05 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: elcid1970

“Starbucks is stupidity stuck on steroids, but that pic is SO photoshopped!”

won’t be long though until photoshopping will be unnecessary ...


54 posted on 05/23/2018 9:37:40 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: FES0844

“Customers are probably walking out with more than coffee. The germs & bed bugs must love it in there.”

i hadn’t thought about that, but the bedbug thing is real. our local library had to replace all their cloth-covered furniture with bed-bug-proof Naugahyde because of the damn bums hanging out there ... once word gets out that people have caught bedbugs at starbucks, that will be all she wrote ...


55 posted on 05/23/2018 9:49:41 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: blam

I think that I have been to a Starbucks once in about three years. I call it Charbucks. The buy the cheapest greenest coffee beans. Then to cover that bad flavor they burn them during the roasting process. UGGHHH.

I do agree with others, this is going to take Starbucks down. They are going to lose customers like crazy. A friend of mine gave me a Starbucks gift card last summer. I have not used it. My husband is trying to cash it in anywhere he can. Unfortunately, the only place that will take it is Starbucks. Hmm, Perhaps I will see if I can cash it out at Starbucks before the madness amps up.


56 posted on 05/23/2018 9:55:26 AM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (Will the last responsible person leaving California, please turn out the lights.)
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To: catnipman

Yeah, I didn’t think Starsucks had long wooden tables suitable for sleeping.

Going to be quite a culture & lifestyle clash within their walls, and soon. Their coffee taken black & barefoot is so awful the homeless will demand to be paid to drink it.


57 posted on 05/23/2018 10:07:48 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
I've only been to a Starbucks once.

Not worth the money, imho.

Does Starbucks sell any hard goods? Preferably unbranded.

Victoria's Secret, at one point years ago, had the highest sales of classical music CDs. Impulse purchases.

Might be a way to burn off the card.

Buy the branded stuff and donate.

Or, show the card to a bunch of bums, and say "Follow me. I'm buying while the card lasts..."

58 posted on 05/23/2018 10:14:01 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: jobim
"I say we all begin transporting homeless to the local Starbucks. Free rides. I’m in!"

Great idea! Just need a movement coordinator and some small funding. It could be expanded to other socialist/PC companies.

Some Starbuck slogans, mottos, and signage:

Your Place To Pee.
Free Loitering, No Exceptions.
Starbucks is now Starbums.
Morning Specials now include free anti-biotics.
A Morning Without Starbums, Is a Morning Without Stench.
We now Include E-Coli Seasoned Pastries. Available Only From 6am to 6am The Following Day.
Starbums Hours: 24 hour trash delivery and pickup. No Waiting For GoldBum Members.
I HEART(moji) Starbums.
Please Show Your e-coli Release Upon Entrance.
A Place To Wake-up, A Place To Relax, A Place To Sleep, A Place To Defecate.
Forget The Sidewalks. We Have Your Special Spot.
Tables, Bars and Countertops Assigned To GoldBum Members Only.

Feel free to add more, and any other chain companies like Target:

Men And Women And Things Welcomed In All Bathrooms.
Please Excuse Our Man/Woman/Thing As They Watch Your Daughter Pee. WE DO NOT DISCRIMINATE!
The Man/Woman/Thing Restrooms Are At The Back Of The Store. PLEASE WATCH YOUR STEP BEFORE ENTERING.

59 posted on 05/23/2018 10:42:03 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: catnipman

Clothes, backpacks...sure to happen


60 posted on 05/23/2018 11:06:31 AM PDT by FES0844 (SGould the allow it. Hi call the shots. IÂ’m sure Laura would have stayed Oman)
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