Thread: Starbucks Begs Conservatives to Come Back

-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz dissed conservatives and it backfired in a spectacular way.

Five straight quarters of decreased sales prove that ripping conservatives is bad for business. Makes sense because conservatives have tremendous buying power. Cause we work.
Starbucks' CEO Howard Schultz's repeated attacks on conservatives have hit Starbucks in the wallet and caused Shultz to lose his job, proving boycotts work.

It all started at a campaign event in 2015 when then-candidate Trump said,

"I have one of the most successful Starbucks, in Trump Tower. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks? I don't know ... That's the end of that lease, but who cares?" Trump said during a campaign rally. "If I become president, we're all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, that I can tell you. That I can tell you."

The next morning Starbucks' stock opened at 62.55. And the slide has continued, driven ever downward by Schultz's repeated attacks on conservatives.

The final blow to Starbucks came in January. When Schultz, responding to Trump's first travel order, announced Starbucks would hire 10,000 refugees worldwide.

It was a dumb move on many levels. National security, politically, and economically but Howard didn't see it that way.

Schultz claimed the uproar and boycotts that followed his disgusting behavior would have zero effect on Starbucks.
But within weeks Starbucks lost 24% of its brand value...

https://wnpjournal.com/starbucks-beg...ves-come-back/

He should be made to serve customers and given a 90% pay cut

Originally Posted by Cardinal TT

He should be made to serve customers and given a 90% pay cut

I suspect he wouldn't notice the pay cut except on paper.

I drink the .99 cappuccino at 7Eleven myself.

I too, don't do Starbucks but Millennials do especially in large cities...it was viewed as a 'status' symbol...Some believe if it costs more it must be better and besides by buying the more expensive 'I feel a sense of heightened value'..Having used to work in a high-rise in Midtown Atlanta I can tell you my conservative friends and coworkers did...I have not asked them if they participated in the boycott...but apparently a lot of people did...

Makes me wonder why Target is even still in business...thy have not recanted any of their radical views...that I know of?

Originally Posted by Quest

I too, don't do Starbucks but Millennials do especially in large cities...it was viewed as a 'status' symbol...Some believe if it costs more it must be better and besides by buying the more expensive 'I feel a sense of heightened value'..Having used to work in a high-rise in Midtown Atlanta I can tell you my conservative friends and coworkers did...I have not asked them if they participated in the boycott...but apparently a lot of people did...

Makes me wonder why Target is even still in business...thy have not recanted any of their radical views...that I know of?

What is a millenial ? Is that someone who was a young adult in 2000 ? I was 28 when the millenium turned, does that qualify ?

I don't do Starbucks either - Tried it one time, and it made me gag - Too strong, and it tasted burnt! - Even if I liked it, I refuse to pay that much for a cup of coffee.

Oh, and I haven't shopped at Target since they instituted that "Gender Neutral Bathroom" policy - Guess it's been over a year ago now.

Originally Posted by Romans828

I don't do Starbucks either - Tried it one time, and it made me gag - Too strong, and it tasted burnt! - Even if I liked it, I refuse to pay that much for a cup of coffee.

Oh, and I haven't shopped at Target since they instituted that "Gender Neutral Bathroom" policy - Guess it's been over a year ago now.

I haven't been to a Target since the Gender Bathroom policy either. I have never been a coffee drinker so didn't bother me there with SBucks. I am glad people are still boycotting both places. Boycotts do work. I remember years ago, the American Family Association ask people to boycott KMart because of their owning a book store that sold porn. They asked them for over a year to pull out of the book store business. They refused so we all boycotted KMart and even after it was lifted a couple years later, I don't think KMart ever bounced back. We are creatures of habit so if people are like me, once they get out of the habit of going someplace we don't normally go back. (Beside Wal Mart, Dollar Tree and Dollar General are much cheaper).

Originally Posted by Colonel

What is a millenial ? Is that someone who was a young adult in 2000 ? I was 28 when the millenium turned, does that qualify ?

Generally speaking, Millennials are the ones born between 1980 to about 1995, although some take the age group to have been born in the early 2000's. They're the ones born to the younger Boomers, like myself, or into the older end of GenX being their parents.

My kids, born in 79, 80 and 82 could be considered young end of GenX or the older end of Millennials... but get into the Mid 80s to late 90s and you have the real Millennials. Completely different mindset of GenX and most certainly of their Grandparents, the Boomers.

Boomers were the generation born after WW2 to about 1963. Children of the Boomers = GenX. Children of GenX = GenY to start with but gradually were renamed Millennials.

Clear as mud, right?

I think the original idea was what I described, 18 or a bit older in 2000. Then those got older and it changed. By now the term has little meaning.