Is Starbucks A Cult?

The Daily Caller ^ | Mickey Kaus

[US Navy Vet]

“Room for smarm in your latte?” Isn’t there something creepy about Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz having [in Politico's words] “asked his Washington-area employees to write ‘Come Together’ on each customer cup today, tomorrow and Friday, as a gesture to urge leaders to resolve the fiscal cliff”? Did Schultz take a poll of his employees–sorry, “partners,” he calls them–before ordering pressuring asking them to join in this lobbying effort? What if he were, say, the CEO of Chick-fil-A and he “asked” his “partners” to write “Preserve the Family” on the outside of cups and containers.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “The free market is a wonderful thing.” <<

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Probably would be if we had one.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ I spend my money on the product. What is done with the profits is irrelevant to me.” <<

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Well, Stu, that is what makes you the epitome of what is wrong with this country, and a total misfit at FR.

We care about things that turn our country into a toilet here, and can’t even imagine what vital anatomical part you were born without. (actually we can, it’s the thing that is supposed to occupy the space between your ears)

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Of course, the clientelle there is somewhat more select.” <<

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Not for long! :o)

[stuartcr]

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[stuartcr]

‘The rise of Starbucks tracks the decline of America’

What does that mean?

[stuartcr]

Thanks, that was refreshing and a bit original.

Happy Holidays

[editor-surveyor]

>> “The rise of Starbucks tracks the decline of America”

>> “What does that mean?” <<

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It means that America was once a sensible nation that would never have tolerated the acceptance of the kind of mediocrity that StarPukes and similar businesses gratuitously embrace.

[stuartcr]

When was that? Which businesses do you consider to not be mediocre?

[dennisw]

Exactly. The rise of Starbucks and other foo-foo food and retail outlets signal brain rot and the feminization of the economy and society. Less production oriented and more consumption oriented. Complete with female heroine movies, the epitome being “Hunger Games”