Posted on 03/24/2015 6:17:13 AM PDT by jonatron
Brilliant marketing strategy ( sarcasm intended)...alienate and carve away potential customers until only the Elite may purchase the product with the company’s permission
I do not go where I am not welcome, nor do i willingly give money to people who hate me.
Chik-fil-A sells coffee.................
Marxists are tolerant of everyone except those who disagree with them. He is going to feel this one since nearly half of his customers were just told they are not welcome in his stores.
Pray America is waking
Didn’t the Rolling Stones write a song about starbucks?
Oh no...wait.. that was starF...
never mind.....
I do go to Starbucks, but because of this, I will cease.
That's because it is over roasted on purpose to make it seem darker and richer than it is.
You must have a palate for lighter coffees. I like the strong stuff but not the way SB does it. I went to a Starbucks once years ago. Never again...and not because of the coffee.
In the movie “Idiocracy,” the hamburger chain Fuddruckers was named “Butt******s.” Starbucks had become a house of prostitution. Maybe we’re closer than we think to the year 2505 (or whenever that movie was set).
The only time I will ever drink the over priced, poor quality crap they sell for coffee is under captive conditions eg certain airports and such. Maybe in their earlier days they had a good cup of coffee but I have never had one.
Yes, you can. And you can urge all your friends and acquaintances to do the same. And you can urge them all to avoid purchasing any product from Starbucks.
That is what free enterprise is all about. It worked very well for JC Penney.
Easy for me, I don’t buy their crap anyway.
I've always liked their coffees. I like ridiculously strong coffee that borders on espresso. My favorite of theirs is the Verona Dark roast. So, that puts me in a position to boycott their coffee. I can live with the fact that their company has views contrary to mine, but the intolerant attitude they show to differing views (to the point they don't even want my business), and the ridiculous race-bating campaign they recently tried means it is time to move on. I almost never bought beverages in their stores anyway, but I have bought their coffee beans and ground coffees for years. No more. If I brew coffee, I will use Peet's from now on, or I will continue to buy Peet's and Barista Prima Italian K-cups for my Keurig machine.
Well, you know, publicly held companies don’t really get to tell the public whether to buy or sell their stock. That’s the public’s decision. If every American who believed in traditional marriage bought just one share of Starbucks’ common stock, I bet we could set the agenda at the next shareholder’s meeting.
Schultzy is intent on cratering his sales.
When you have a successful product....you sell the product...not some moral theme deal which is connected to the product. Any successful businessman knows that (ten lessons of a successful long term product).
Something tells me that they are about to engage in a loss strategy and watch a quarter of their market share drop in one year. Just firing the CEO won’t be enough, and I’ll go ahead now and make this 2016 prediction....they get sold off to someone else in the market, or they rebrand the entire product.
Years ago, I had some professor who did a business introduction class, and one night...he did the ten lessons of life about a business. He’d actually started three businesses and watched two of them go into ‘epic failure’. One of the lessons of the failures was that you never involve morale lessons in the product you have or twist it into some political statement. Once you do that....half the crowd will hate you and you lose your customer base.
Starbucks Board. If anyone thinks this guy is going anywhere, think again. Just don’t buy their stuff:
Howard Schultz
Starbucks
founder, chairman, president and chief executive officer
William (Bill) Bradley
Allen & Company LLC
managing director
Robert M. Gates
former Secretary of Defense
Mellody Hobson
Ariel Investments, LLC
president
Kevin Johnson
Juniper Networks, Inc.
retired chief executive officer
Olden Lee
PepsiCo, Inc.
retired executive
Joshua Cooper Ramo
Kissinger Associates
vice chairman
James Shennan, Jr.
Trinity Ventures
general partner emeritus
Clara Shih
Hearsay Social, Inc.
chief executive officer
Javier Teruel
Colgate - Palmolive Company
retired vice chairman
Myron Ullman, III
J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
chief executive officer
Craig Weatherup
Pepsi-Cola Company
retired chief executive officer
Exactly...I used to buy their shit for coffee, but no more.
I’ll wash my hands of this product from here on out.
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