[toupsie]

Think that is my last coffee from Starbucks and I had a 3 dollar a day habit. Can you imagine the GREED required to charge a Rescue Worker for a bottle water to save another human's life? Very, very sick. One thing this tragedy has done has made it easy to seperate the bad from good...

[2Jedismom]

I never liked going in Starbucks...always felt underdressed for some reason. I think I'll just stick with my Maxwell House.

[CatoRenasci]

Well, what do you expect from the people who have ruined coffee in the United States, buying cheap quality beans, roasting them very dark to disguise the low quality, and emphasizing espresso drinks that can tolerate the cheap quality coffee.

The whole rise of espresso and similar very dark roasts in Italy and France was a result of the simple fact that the average citizen couldn't afford decent quality coffee beans. Low quality beans are lousy when medium roasted to the point where high quality beans have the greatest flavor and aroma.

[cicero's_son]

Interesting.

I've had some *horrible* experiences at NY Starbucks. Love their coffee, but the service and management here is just atrocious.

Schultz should be ashamed.

[liberallarry]

I had the same thing happen to me in Venice, Ca. when I came to the aid of a car crash victim. It did not involve Starbucks but rather another coffee shop. These places have a policy of not providing free water in order to discourage bums from free-loading. I imagine what happened is that the Starbucks bureacracy was not nimble enough to adapt to the situation and the employees didn't want to risk their jobs.

[Hail Caesar]

"One thing this tragedy has done has made it easy to seperate the bad from good..."

Amen to that.

[airedale]

Two things the local "partners" may not have had the authority to give away the water and didn't want to take a chance of having their "partnership" arrangement terminated. The "partners" are very young and probably have no authority at all. Second what to bet that the "partners" weren't compensated for the time that management of Starbucks gave them off to be with their families. A time when my guess that no one was buying coffee. Seems to me that Starbucks save a bunch of $$$ by that action. I’m sure the idea of cost savings never crossed their minds. Anyone know if the Starbucks near the disaster area have hiked their prices?

[The Shrew]

Thanks for posting this. After election 2000 a member of the DNCCongressional Campaign Committee was quoted as saying, "We lost every precinct that didn't have a Starbucks!" I find that statement prescient.

During X42's reign a friend of mine and I would go to Starbucks so that we could loudly talk about the scandals. We knew we were on enemy territory and reveled in it.

Did you also know that they are a significant donor to Planned Parenthood?

Regards,

TS

[MadIvan]

We have Starbucks here in the UK now. I am very grateful I bought my own bloody cappucino machine and know how to make my own coffee. This is beyond disgusting.

Regards, Ivan

FreeBritannia.co.uk

[boycott]

I can live just fine without Starbucks.

[Looking4Truth]

Who needs that overpriced yuppie crap anyway.

Plain, black Maxwell House, thank you!

[Monkey Face]

Now I know why I was never interested in Starbucks...

Had I been an employee (partner) I would have given the water and belled the cat with a visit to the media had I been terminated.

Greed will always come back to haunt, even though it may be disguised as hardship.

[Monkey Face]

Now I know why I was never interested in Starbucks...

Had I been an employee (partner) I would have given the water and belled the cat with a visit to the media had I been terminated.

Greed will always come back to haunt, even though it may be disguised as hardship.

[Fiddlstix]

Starbucks
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[537 Votes]

They were in New York City. They hired New Yorkers to staff their store. New Yorkers are legendary for being rude. That was true the day before the tragedy, and apparently it was true on the day of the tragedy.

Here's how it works. The rest of the country is sending aid to New York, and New Yorkers are charging each other for their services. Don't tell me to be sensitive, I've donated money to the relief funds. Tell them to be sensitive!

It's obvious here that someone is trying to blow up the rudeness of a single Starbuck's clerk into an public relations fiasco against the company and its thousands of employees. This tells me that someone wants some money from Starbuck's, on the threat of further adverse publicity. So who's trying to profit off this tragedy?

[toupsie]

Click Here to complain about Starbuck's retail stores.

[Agamemnon]

Big DNC contributors too, don't forget.

[Tarheel]

Went to Starbucks web site--this was found under Starbucks Social Responsibilty page--in light of your report the below is a MAJOR BARF alert!

'Building Community Our many community building programs help us to be a good neighbor and active contributor in the communities where our partners and customers live, work and play. We encourage and reward volunteerism and participation in neighborhood clean-ups, walk-a-thons, and leadership activities.'

Double Barf!

The Tarheel

[jwa3]

wow

[Twodees]

Well, here's a thought: bottled water is store stock. Employees of most businesses I know of don't have the authority to give away their employer's merchandise without permission.

The Starbuck's nearest to me has a large, old fashioned water crock with a spigot sitting on the counter with disposable cups so that customers or browsers can drink water at no charge, so I wasn't even aware that Starbuck's sold bottled water.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to jump Starbuck's about this simply because they didn't already have a company policy in place which would allow store employees to donate the merchandise of the store without explicit permission.

Take a closer look at this. It ain't as if Starbuck's corporate management or even the manager of that store quickly decided to profit from the attack.

[MississippiMan]

Can you imagine the GREED required to charge a Rescue Worker for a bottle water to save another human's life?

I'd be willing to give the company the benefit of the doubt seeing as how they probably had a bunch of snot-noses running that place that have not a clue. But that benefit ran out with the way they handled the follow-up.

I order all my coffee from DunkinDonuts.com. It's great.