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People Are Boycotting Starbucks After CEO Announces Plan To Hire Thousands Of Refugees
Business Insider ^ | 1-30-2017 | Kate Taylor

Posted on 01/30/2017 9:45:56 AM PST by blam

Some Starbucks customers are threatening to boycott the coffee giant after its CEO took a stand against President Donald Trump's executive order barring immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US.

On Sunday, Starbucks announced it planned to hire 10,000 refugees worldwide in the next five years.

"We are living in an unprecedented time, one in which we are witness to the conscience of our country, and the promise of the American Dream, being called into question," CEO Howard Schultz wrote in a letter to Starbucks employees about the plan.

While many customers were immediately supportive of Starbucks' actions on social media, others threatened to boycott after the letter's release.

"Upon hearing about your decision to hire 10000 refugees instead of Americans I will no longer spend any money at Starbucks," one such Facebook user wrote on Starbucks' page.

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


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KEYWORDS: boycott; coffee; first100days; immigration; refugees; starbucks; trump; trump45
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To: Paved Paradise

Their burned beans taste like tar to me. I’ve never understood the Liberal love for their nasty coffee.


41 posted on 01/30/2017 10:05:47 AM PST by publana (Great reset button you got there, Hills.)
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To: blam

I don’t ever go there because of all their left wing BS. They lost me as a customer a long time ago.


42 posted on 01/30/2017 10:07:08 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: blam

Starbuck$ supports beating women, keeping women from driving, and the total subjugation of women!


43 posted on 01/30/2017 10:07:56 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Damn, I can’t boycott them because I don’t ever buy any of their crap anyway!

Same here. And these are not "refugees". These are Illegal Aliens. Starbucks is breaking the law by hiring them. The new Trump DHS should charge Starbucks with violations of federal law and deport these aliens post haste.

44 posted on 01/30/2017 10:13:53 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted. It belongs to the brave. - - Ronaldus Magnus Reagan)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Well win you post to their facebook page, don’t tell them that.


45 posted on 01/30/2017 10:20:42 AM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: blam
I guess no one has ever noticed that the Starbucks Trademark contains the Islamic STAR and CRESCENT.


46 posted on 01/30/2017 10:21:01 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: American in Israel

Besides the idea that their coffee sucks, why would I want to trust anything to an inbred muzloid jihadist.


47 posted on 01/30/2017 10:22:46 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: knarf

Hard to argue Starbucks is a failing company but not sure why they would try to piss off a large portion of their customers.


48 posted on 01/30/2017 10:25:14 AM PST by rb22982
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To: blam

This is the same guy who when Christian stockholders raised some concerns, he basically told them to go to hell, which is the same attitude I have for star*fucks. The beauty of America,he has the right to run the business as he wants and I have the right to not buy their overpriced, burned, pretentious, elitist, crap.


49 posted on 01/30/2017 10:38:04 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: blam

I don’t care how much you may like their products, this leftist CEO chirps in on every issue letting us know how unamerican he thinks we are. Screw him, don’t buy their stuff ever again.


50 posted on 01/30/2017 10:51:38 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: blam

Cant boycott what i dont use, but at least its confirms to me not going to them is a great idea.


51 posted on 01/30/2017 10:53:22 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blam

Aside from a one off a year ago with a fried, I’m on the tail end of 2 solid decades of boycott.

Back when we started hearing about their support for deviant life styles, solidified by a business trip to SF and visiting the StarBucks there. Deviant city.


52 posted on 01/30/2017 10:57:14 AM PST by Freemeorkillme
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To: blam
I live in the country....

The nearest SB..is, I think 28 miles from me....if they are still in business.

I was at work the other day..and someone bot the staff SB coffee...it was horrible coffee.

I've never spent a dime in a SB place....and won't ever,

53 posted on 01/30/2017 10:57:51 AM PST by Osage Orange (We can all live together as brothers or perish together as fools)
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To: blam

My wife is a big fan of Starbucks coffee, but last night she said she will find another place to buy her daily latte.

Schultz is trying his best to become the CEO of the late, not-so-great company.

As for me, I can’t stand “Charbucks.” I feel like my teeth are brown after drinking the stuff, with a bitter after taste.

The only one I like is Kenya. I make it at the strength I like, and of course they never sell it by the cup in the store, and they never have it in the supermarket.

No more Kenya for me either.


54 posted on 01/30/2017 11:06:52 AM PST by detch (")
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To: blam

I can’t stand their coffee, so I can’t boycott them because I never patronize them.


55 posted on 01/30/2017 11:14:49 AM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: blam

JC Penney, Target. Another liberal lemming.


56 posted on 01/30/2017 11:16:00 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Heck, the Patriot Gas Station has better coffee...and cheaper.


57 posted on 01/30/2017 11:21:31 AM PST by 91B40
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To: detch

We had eight years of Kenya.


58 posted on 01/30/2017 11:22:35 AM PST by 91B40
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To: blam

I used to spend way too much money at Starbucks.
However, I cannot boycott them now as I haven’t been in one in almost 10 years.


59 posted on 01/30/2017 11:28:02 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: blam

I used to spend way too much money at Starbucks.
However, I cannot boycott them now as I haven’t been in one in almost 10 years.


60 posted on 01/30/2017 11:28:07 AM PST by Lorianne
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