Starbucks, one of America’s most iconic brands, citing crime and safety concerns, not profits, recently announced it is shuttering 16 of its stores in major, mostly Democrat-run cities such as Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles was particularly hard-hit, losing six stores. (RELATED: Over 700,000 Signatures Submitted to Recall Soft-on-Crime DA)
In a leaked video of an internal meeting, Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz warned “this is just the beginning, there are going to be many more” closings to come.
“It has shocked me that one of the primary concerns that our retail partners have is their own personal safety,” he said in the leaked video. “America has become unsafe.”
Schultz went on to specifically blame federal state and city government leaders for abdicating their responsibilities to punish crime and to treat the mentally ill. (RELATED: Big City DAs: No Crime Big Enough to Do Time)
This is a far cry from Shultz’s comments in 2018 when he was pandering to the BLM crowd by implementing racial bias training and he said:
“I think it’s fair to say that most people have some level of unconscious bias based on our own life experience,” Schultz said of the training at the time. “So there’s going to be a lot of education about how we all grew up, how we see the world, and how we can be better.”
Now Shultz is rightly blaming rampant crime and growing waves of crazy people.
“Starbucks is a window into America, we have stores in every community, and we are facing things in which the stores were not built for and so we’re listening to our people and closing stores,” Schultz continued.
In June Shultz said Starbucks would likely end its open bathroom policy which gave access to anyone whether they were paying customers or not. This policy followed a nationwide boycott by the left.
The Blaze reported:
The company enacted the policy after two black men were denied use of a Starbucks bathroom in Philadelphia. The men never ordered anything. When they did not leave the shop, an employee called police, and the men were arrested for trespassing. No criminal charges were filed against them, and they eventually reached a settlement with Starbucks.
Still, the incident triggered a nationwide boycott of Starbucks.
After the incident, Starbucks forced its employees to attend an intensive racial-bias training, even closing all of its stores one day in late May 2018 for the training.
Now Starbucks is focusing on a different kind of employee training – safety and security training to avoid being assaulted, robbed or killed while serving cappuccinos and lattes. ALD
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Good, I hope Starbucks goes bankrupt. They’re mega lib supporters. They won’t support our troops, won’t recognize Christmas, etc, etc. So, the best thing for them is to dry up and blow away. They WANTED all the riots and destruction. SO, now they have it. Bye, won’t miss you a second.
Shut down more in Blue States
Shut down more in all states. They are a left-wing, loon organization with overpriced, over roasted turpentine for sale. I refuse to call that slosh coffee. It’s bitter, just as bitter as the owners are towards all of us. They prefer the left-wing wokes and now they are reaping what they have sown. Karma is wonderful.
If Starbucks is closing their stores in Democratic cities, well that makes the Mayor’s of Chicago and New York liars!
They always have been.
Follow the money of this company!
Maybe the ceo should have sent our men and women in uniform some coffee that they paid for, but would not ship it over to Afghanistan, because starbutts didn’t agree with America going into Afghanistan, for me, you can shut them all down for that move. I will NEVER BUY STARBUTT COFFEE, SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT ONE OUT BEFORE YOU OPENED YOUR IGNORANT MOUTH
You might want to do the same with Black Rifle Coffee Co. as well. The owner and founder of the company is an anti-American commie Leftist. I placed my last order after he shot his mouth off with something that should have angered every American veteran.
So going woke to appease the left didn’t quite work out. Did it? At the end money talks.
Woke companies should feel the pain just like the rest of us do.
Isn’t that rich? One of the Marxist, socialist democrat companies that fronts for the democrat party, complaining about it’s policies. Screw them and their over priced coffee. They brought this upon themselves and saying America isn’t safe is just wrong. Democrat policies and foreign billionaires paying for district attorneys, attorney generals and Governors is the where it is not safe. Not where “Americans” still live. Being an American is more than just an address in America.
Another libtard speaking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time. Nothing wrong with the US, that getting rid of a bunch of whiny libtards wouldn’t fix! Hey, ceo – you cannot pander to thugs and then wonder shy your stores are being trashed!
Lib run meccas getting what they deserve…….more unemployment. Just reaping what they sow.
Gee, I wonder how those anti-police pro-criminal cities became suddenly unsafe. Could it have anything to do with promoting Dem politicians, standing with terrorists and anarchists against the police, releasing thousands of prison inmates back into society and refusal to prosecute new crimes? Nah, couldn’t be that. That’s crazy talk.
Like most @holes this CEO didn’t care until it hit his pocket
It is the political party which Howard Schultz actively supports which has rendered American cities unsafe but don’t look for him to make any adjustments in his support.
America is unsafe because of a**holes like you that bend to Groups like the BLM and others. Grow a pair of b*lls and fight for America, not the leftists that are running this country.