Posted on 03/21/2013 7:17:53 PM PDT by Fzob
Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz on Wednesday defended the company’s decision to support marriage equality, and told investors that if they weren’t on board, they could sell their stock and go elsewhere.
Howard Schultz Last year, the Seattle-based company announced its support for legalizing same-sex marriage in Washington state, prompting opponents of the measure — notably the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage — to launch a boycott of Starbucks.
At the company’s annual meeting Wednesday, shareholder Tom Strobhar described Starbucks’ first-quarter performance as disappointing, and suggested that was due in part to the boycott.
“In the first fill quarter after this boycott was announced, our sales and our earrings — shall we say politely — were a bit disappointing,” Strobhar said.
Unfazed, Schultz replied that the company’s decision to support marriage equality was not the bottom line, but about respecting diversity, reported KPLU.
There’s only one way to know it taste like sour ads and that is to be one of those LGBT fools.
Fagbucks!
Around here, they and Dunkin Donuts are about the same price for a straight (as it were) cup of coffee. Egg-sausage-cheese sandwiches about the same price, too. They've been in heavy competition—except that DD coffee locally is so weak as to be undrinkable. Starbucks regular coffee can be very good, depending on the store, since staff competence varies.
But yuck, who cares. Pride is a mental disease, Howard, and I don't want to think about diseases of any kind near my coffee. These days, I grind my own, thanks.
Am on the road a lot.
McD’s coffee is very good, when it’s good. If it’s been sitting on the burner for a couple of hours, even in the morning, it’s not good. It’s bad like the coffee one gets in a fighter squadron at 3 in the afternoon, which is coffee time in Germany. Burnt.
I never frequented Starbucks because of their prices. Recently I purchased a $7.00 frother and make my own lattes for half the price. Dark French Roast, real cream, a bit of sugar or Sweet & Low and I’m set.
I used to buy Starbucks regularly. Have not spent a dime there for months now. They can stick their support for perversion.
Support their competitors
Sell,sell,sell.
Can someone explain why this guy feels as if he has a greater fiduciary responsibility to “diversity” than to his shareholders?
Never been in one , never will, “marriage equality” or no “marriage equality”.
I suspect that most people who buy coffee at Starbucks are social liberals anyway, they need to be part of that ‘in’ crowd.
This is the point in history where you declare that you are for ‘marriage equality’ or you get left behind. Its the (very new) cultural norm and Obama is the cool modern version of LBJ who was at the wheel when it happened,
That is the modern cultural mindset, precisely.
This country has truly gone to hell.
My view is the same as when movie stars voice their lamebrain liberal ideas: If they have talent, I don't care what their views are. If they're only mediocre, I boycott them.
In this case, I happen to like Starbucks, so I will continue to buy their coffee.
What a latte of baloney.
Now just try to imagine the uproar, especially from the "media", if the Chick-Fil-A CEO had said similar words regarding their support of traditional (real) marriage, and told investors to take a hike if they didn't like it.
STOP BENDING OVER (figuratively) FOR THE RADICAL HOMO AGENDA!!! Sorry for the shouting - sometimes it is needed...).
So long as they support the second amendment, I have nothing bad to say about them. I mostly drink Folgers instant regardless.
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He’s bluffing. If they do dump all of their stocks he will crap himself...lol
I won’t go there again.
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