Posted on 05/23/2018 6:21:11 AM PDT by blam
When people go into a Starbucks, often the first thing they smell is roasting coffee. That's about to change. Starbucks, stung by phony charges of racism when two black men were arrested for camping out in a Starbucks without making a purchase, has changed its official policies.
From now on, not only is anyone welcome to use a Starbucks bathroom without making a purchase, but the public is also welcome to come in and sit at tables and never buy anything.
The implications of this are obvious. Some people will use tables as personal offices and never purchase anything. Table space, already at a premium, will be largely unavailable for paying customers. What will that do for sales?
But even worse, in urban areas which have large homeless populations, guess who will come in and camp all day?
The unpleasant appearance of the homeless, combined with their smell, will drive customers out of Starbucks. I am convinced that this will be the end of Starbucks. This is a gross overreaction to the arrest of two black men.
Companies typically do lip service to perversity that doesn't affect the bottom line in a major way--allowing men in women's bathrooms, forcing employees to go through diversity training, giving money to racial hustlers, and so on. But this policy change will destroy Starbucks. How can it not?
Starbucks says it is treating "non-paying guests" as "customers". How out of touch is that?
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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.
I’m waiting for winter to kick in, and see the number of homeless people increase dramatically just to keep warm.
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.
Right up there with J.C. Pennys
Enjoy the roaches and rats. I think Starbucks charges extra for them.
I say we all begin transporting homeless to the local Starbucks. Free rides. I’m in!
I've often thought of attaching a sign close to my front door:
Won't do such to my nice neighbors. Plus, the wife would go ballistic...lol.
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.
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!
Very good point. It's gonna be fun to watch the closings of so many Starbums come next winter, or even before.
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.
“I’ve got an idea! Let’s chase away all our customers!”
“Starbucks is stupidity stuck on steroids, but that pic is SO photoshopped!”
won’t be long though until photoshopping will be unnecessary ...
“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 ...
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.
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.
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..."
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.
Clothes, backpacks...sure to happen
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