Posted on 07/17/2022 6:17:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz placed blame on woke elected officials in Democrat-run cities for the abrupt closure of 16 stores located primarily on the West Coast.
On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal was the first to report that six locations each will shut down in Seattle and Los Angeles, in addition to two in Portland, Ore., one in Philadelphia, and one in Washington, D.C., by August. The company cited repeated safety incidents behind its decision.
“In my view at the local, state, and federal level, these governments across the country and leaders, mayors, and governors and city councils have abdicated their responsibility in fighting crime and addressing mental illness,” said Schultz, who returned to the company as chief executive in April. “We are going to have to refine and transform and modernize many of the things we do to meet the needs of our customers in a very changing operating environment in which customer behavior is changing.
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I haven’t paid for a starbucks in 10 years.
Support your local communities and friends running independent coffee shops.
Even in Red TN my favorite drive through people get drinks, food, other things thrown at them. Somehow if your fries are not they way you like them, violent behavior is okay. Perpetual toddlers. The cops don’t care here either.
Everyone can be a liberal until they get mugged a few times.
Crime rates drop considerably if you take blacks out of the equation. Some may not like that but it’s a fact.
“Starbucks CEO Blames Woke Elected Officials For 16 Store Closures In Dangerous Cities”
Ha! That’s rich......a little like a burglar complaining that he got robbed isn’t it?
You made your bed sucker.....now lay in it.
One of the reasons I took an early retirement is the mindset of the “woke” employees coming into the workforce lacking any maturity at all in how to work within an organization among employees. They behave like children wanting the world to cater to their every whim. They have not grown up.
I had an encouter with a gal I said ‘No” to. Oh my gosh she went crying to management who addressed us both in full view of an audience. Asking that we both apologize. I said No I would not apologize for something I did not do. Which surprised management. They did not go any further but the gal never messed with me after that. In fact she went to another department - Ha! Victory is sweet!
Every now and again when I get the urge to pay twice as much as anywhere else for some seriously burnt coffee, there’s no better place to go than Starbucks.
This Starbuck’s CEO has about as much self reflection and insight as a rock. His company did all they could to elect woke officials and have some direct responsibility for the outcomes.
People don’t go to Starbucks for coffee, they go for dessert.
I love coffee, ergo I don’t go to Starbucks.
Didn’t Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz invent Woke ,LOL
Isn’t he the one who mandated that Starbucks have an open bathroom use policy, and allowed people to come in an loaf around without buying anything?
Agree with your comment about taking blacks out of the equation.
For at least 15 years I had black neighbors on both sides.
On the right were “American” blacks. She was from NC. She got divorced, kept the house and got remarried to a guy from the miami area. The daughter had a child out of wedlock. They couldn’t andle the maintenence on the house or the yard. Our HOA was continually sending them letters and once actually put their property in preforclosure.
They finally moved and a flipper came in and rehabbed the house. He told me of all the houses he’s put back together that one was THE worst he’s ever rehabbed.
In contrast the black family on the left emigrated from Ghana west Africa. Both parents were educated in the UK and both are in the medical field. The daughter graduated from college and is now a nurse. The oldest son graduated college and is now in the cybersecurity field. I fully expect the youngest son to follow suit.
They are without a doubt THE best neighbors I’ve ever had.
The difference between the two families is just to obvious to ignore. Many American blacks are truly spoiled and lazy.
But like Rush Limbaugh used to say “telling the truth in this country nowadays will get you in trouble.”
His company did all they could to elect woke officials and have some direct responsibility for the outcomes.
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ELECT ‘woke’, go broke.
No tears from me for Starbucks. I have not patronized their stores for many years. A guy I worked for many years ago always bought Starbucks for the office coffee machine .... he had very poor taste in coffee - it was not good.
Yep. A rabid dog doesn’t care if you’ve been feeding it or not. It’ll bite you just as quick as anyone else....but most people have the common sense to know that.....most people.
Common sense ain’t so common anymore.
Lie down with dogs...wake up with fleas, Schultz.
Yeah, better to keep them open so the baristas can continue to be assaulted, homeless can hang out in the seating area all day and take over the bathrooms as well to shoot up drugs.
I’m sure the workers don’t mind cleaning off poop in front of the store every morning and sweeping aside needles - they’ll have to mind the homeless guy sleeping in the doorway too.
He has more right than they or their customers do.
Don’t see a problem with it, not at all.
Fiexed it.
Many American blacks are spoiled and lazy but they’re also told the hate everything about the USA.
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