https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/starbucks-to-close-16-us-stores-over-crime-rampant-drug-use/ Starbucks to close 16 US stores because of crime, rampant drug use Starbucks is shuttering 16 store locations nationwide after store managers reported a surge in drug use among customers and outsiders as well as an increase in crime in certain areas. Six Starbucks locations will be closed in the company’s hometown of Seattle and six more will be shuttered in the Los Angeles metro area. Two Starbucks restaurants will cease operating in Portland, Ore., while one store each will close in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, according to the Wall Street Journal. Store managers have complained to company executives that employees have not felt safe amid a surge of assaults, thefts and drug use in and around each location. This story demonstrates the truth of the old adage. Chickens come home to roost. There is a lesson to be learned here. Well actually many lessons, but certainly one lesson is that progressive liberalism leads to anarchy, crime, a loss of jobs, and a decent into the proverbial cesspool. Will the liberal Billionaire CEO who closed 8000 stores for half a day to provide his workers with unconscious bias training perhaps learn this lesson?
Only sixteen? Crime is up in democratic cities all over the map, if employees “feeling unsafe” is all it takes to close a store down, hundreds ought to be shuttering. methinks these stores are also not making a profit—perhaps due to crime but regardless, It says something about the company’s true feelings about their employees safety if profit is really the main motivator here behind the closings and employee safety is just PR cover story.
Starbucks is in bad shape... http://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/business/starbucks-bathrooms-stores-closing/index.html
According to the CEO, they were closed because the store managers feared for their personal safety. A far more credible theory is that the CEO is closing stores to kill off a unionization drive. With billionaires, it is ALWAYS about the money. Weird how woke capitalists like Bezos and Schultz like to virtue signal while ruthlessly stopping unionization. This demonstrates that wokeness is top down phenomenon meant to distract from class grievances and divide the working class. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news...ks may not be done,This is just the beginning.
First, they allowed loitering, then free use of the restroom, then they had to training employees how to handle needles in the restroom. Theres nothing like paying $4 for a coffee and enjoying it with a bunch of crack heads!
Easy to understand. It seems it would be hard to do really well charging 3 to 5 dollars for an espresso that I can make at home for 35 cents and even avoid the crowds while I am at it. We have mini starbucks in the supermarket we use. It is next to a similar counter run by the store. The store owned counter has better coffee at half the price. I think Starbucks probably needs to freshen up its business model.
Isn’t this the same woke virtue signaling CEO who promised to hire 15,000 Muslim refugees that Obama was importing from all over the world?
Just because there isn't a news story doesn't mean the little guys and small businesses are not feeling the same hurt and shuttering their store fronts. The lucky ones will be able to move, the unlucky are either stuck trying to make a living in the violence or forced to close. Look at what's happening in the video below in San Fran. How long before these small businesses just high tail it out of there because the city not only does nothing to help protect their business, they punish the businesses with fines.
The virtue signaling may have simply been a cynical ploy to attract woke customers, i.e., the sort of people that would pay premium prices for overpriced coffee and girly man coffee and sugar drinks
Liberals don't care. Most have no conception of the work required to start a small business or the risk of investing personal capital.
