The company was founded on the premise that Starbucks would be a comfortable third place for people to work and socialize; the first two places being home and office. Come in anytime and stay as long as you want with no pressure to buy anything. This was part of the Starbucks culture which created millions of devoted customers. However as Starbucks expanded into very high traffic locations, the big overstuffed chairs, and fireplaces became small tables and stand up bars. Every inch of space was used. I have no doubt that customers that sit for expended periods without ordering would be asked to leave.
Maybe they might want to make an announcement then? Change their corporate motto? I'm fine with Caribou, they are our 'home grown' go to for coffee. But Starbucks still needs to be honest with where they are now if they don't want this snowball to avalanche.
You know how ill-mannered we snowflakes are.
Most Starbuck stores are located in shopping centers and near major shopping and restaurant areas. In these stores, the atmosphere is usually very casual and laid back. My experience has been you can sit in one of these stores for hours and no one is going to suggest you leave. I was in a Starbucks in New York last year and believe me, no one would want to sit in one these places for long. It was crowded and noisy, the kind of place you grab a cup of coffee on the way to work.
Starbucks policies are all about social responsibility, business code of conduct, human rights, equal opportunity, healthcare, and all the things that drives conservatives nuts. This of course is the primary reason why this story is relished so by conservatives; the most liberal and pc oriented major business ejects two black men presenting an opportunity to build a case of discrimination.
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Starbucks can be considered a model, as you describe it,for what liberals want of our society.
Yet we can see that, even when liberals get what they want, it does not lead to racial harmony.
At least one lib was talking ominously of how Starbucks needs to do this or that, before this "avalanches".
This bodes ill for the future, if demographic shift gives liberals the power to remake society as they see fit.
An organization can provide leadership but not all members will follow. In the case of Starbucks, there're over 250,000 employees. Being a liberal is not a requirement to work at Starbucks.
I bet that very few of their managers, are not liberals.
Just a coincidink, not that they would discriminate or anything like that. Oh, NO.
BUT, regardless, Stabucks did nothing wrong and is responding as a liberal would want, throwing the hard working manager to the wolves, and "taking responsibility" and taking steps so nothing as horrible as a manager asking black non customers to leave will ever happen again.
And still they are being mobbed with protesters.
THis bodes ill for the future.
