I will boycott Starbucks

[louis c]

Howard Schultz is the founder, former chief executive officer (CEO), and the single-largest shareholder of Starbucks. Schultz holds 33 million shares directly and 1.7 million shares indirectly through trusts as of Jun. 26, 2018. Schultz joined the Starbucks Coffee Company as the director of retail and marketing in 1982. Updated Dec 13, 2018

[BigmanPigman]

1. That idea was mentioned on MSNBC this weekend.

Dems do not want it and will boycott. I think is in place of a "no" vote. Will Howard's ego ignore the red flags?

[Stuart G]

2. He will not run. It will permanently destroy the business, and he knows it.

[dem4decades]

4. If he runs, the boycott is forever. What kind of idiot thinks

Millions of people boycotting their business forever is a good idea.

And MAGA hats don't like that elitists coffee either.

[Stuart G]

47. Talking about "running for President" is not running..

..Kind of checking the cold air, before going outside. Sometimes, it is too cold, you don't go. Sometimes the rain is too hard,,you don't go outside. Lots of reasons. He will not run, if this will destroy his business. While he may have some desire to run, he is not that stupid in my opinion. But anything can happen, and it already has.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Charbucks, purveyor of burned beans. No need to go there!

[sheshe2]

5. I think their coffee tastes like burnt beans.

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. they are burned beans - I am a home roaster, and Starbucks creates

a house style that obliterates the regional characteristics (and after a cup, one feels like they've smoked a cigar!)

[ginnyinWI]

20. We are home roasters, too.

And yes their coffee is burnt and overpriced. The worst of their coffee seems to be in airport terminals!

When we are out and need to buy coffee, Peets and Caribou are good. Will drive out of our way for a Peets, right past any number of Starbucks stores.

[NRaleighLiberal]

21. I've been roasting Sweet Maria beans since 2007. Now we are totally spoiled!

As I type this, there are half pound containers of City+ roasted Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya. Makes each morning an adventure (we travel with a grinder and French Press!)

[ginnyinWI]

24. We have been since 2003.

My husband started out buying from Sweet Maria, then found a co-op which is cheaper. We buy from one of the co-op members who operates out of his home, dividing the big bags of green beans into smaller amounts.

Here is the co-op: greencoffeebuyingclub.com. If you can find a member who is driving distance like we did, you can pick it up. Otherwise you can have it sent to your home. We pay about $3.50 to $4.50 per pound in green coffee weight this way.

[NRaleighLiberal]

30. GREAT - thanks!

I am using the same stainless steel whirly pop that I bought in 2007 - 11 years old using every two weeks - Coleman stove, sitting on the front porch. My wife likes roasting day - I smell like a cup of coffee until I shower (hoping that coffee roasting smoke is nothing too bad for one's lungs)....

[ginnyinWI]

34. It actually is bad for your lungs.

He roasts in the garage with the garage door open in winter, and out on the deck in the summer. Has a contraption made combining parts from a Stir Crazy popcorn maker and a convection oven. But when he started out, he used air pop popcorn makers from Goodwill. Burned out a few of those, and now the new one is higher powered and quicker.

http://turbocrazy.atspace.com/index_files/project.htm

[lame54]

18. Yes - expensive ones

[NastyRiffraff]

6. I will too, but honestly

it's no problem for me as I hate their burnt bean coffee and their stale sandwiches and pastries.

[CountAllVotes]

12. stale sandwiches and pastries

Ah ha! You've got a real winner of a StarSucks where you live too eh?

[NastyRiffraff]

13. Yup. About a mile away from my apartment.

[lame54]

19. Dont worry - they'll build 2 more closer to you

[CountAllVotes]

59. That is rough!

Good god! You have my extreme condolences!!

[BillyBobBrilliant]

7. I have been

boycotting the company for over a decade, after finding out that he is a big supporter of Israeli Zionism. Not to mention the smug fucks that are behind the counter at every store.

[sprinkleeninow]

8. Husband goes there for something and a coffee pretty much each morning.

I texted him the link to schultz likely declaring and told him to boycott starting Monday morning--tooday!!

He rings up a daily tab for around $5-6 weekdays. That amount times 20ish work days. A bit of a luxury when there's other places comparable. You fall into a habit. I don't drink coffee per se, but the ones I had there weren't that spectacular. 😏

[HipChick]

9. My stomach boycotted SB a long time ago

[CountAllVotes]

10. Been doing that for years

Not only does their grossly overpriced coffee suck, they suck as well.

There is one close to where I live (OF COURSE) and the pastries they have are so old you have to wonder are they just plain OLD or is it really MOLD?

& recommend!!

[akraven]

11. I've had exactly one medium plain coffee from Star$$$

It tasted burnt and I never again bought any. I think it was in 2000.

[Hekate]

14. I'll do that right after I use up my $50 gift card

[louis c]

15. You may as well. He already has that money.

[Hekate]

22. This is kind of an amusing thread, you know. There's a local purveyor I like better, but...

...they aren't all over the country and in airports (thus, local).

Starbucks is known to be a good employer, in a country with too few of those. I've never had "smug" service -- though recently I've experienced weirdness due to people using some kind of app to call ahead. In a pinch I have purchased a meal from them, and it's been fresh and tasty enough each time.

Furthermore, I remember coffee before Starbucks. Coffee served in public spaces was often dreadful. Like battery-acid dreadful. (Denny's was a particular offender.) It was like all those eateries had a compact to put a pot on the hot-plate and leave it there for days. How they achieved that I have no idea -- they must have brewed a fresh pot some time.

After Starbucks, coffee got noticeably better nearly everywhere -- it's like they all discovered French Roast. The exception (there's always an exception) is McDonald's, which should come with a warning sign.

Anyway, no boycott from me, if for no other reason than last I heard they remain a good employer. I'm just not a regular customer. For the money, I'll buy beans from Peet's.

[louis c]

23. Let's see. Good employer vs. 4 more years of Trump

I bet we can more easily find another good employer to serve coffee. We won't be able to find another country.

[Hekate]

27. He made his pile by honest means: conflating him with Trump is asinine. OTT...

...his candidacy is a non-issue. He's not a Dem. Is he? Any so-called Dem or Bernite who votes for him is an idiot and isn't voting for a Dem anyway.

Non-issue.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. How is a potential third party candidacy that siphons votes

How is a potential third party candidacy that siphons votes from the Dems and theoretically tipping the election to Trump a "non issue" ?

[louis c]

33. Imagine a DUer thinking a billionare, third party anti-Trump candidate is a "non-issue"...

...the most important thing in politics is being able to count

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. I just have to say it. I thought better of it but I just have to say it.

If he helped to re-elect Trump I would drink my own urine before I drank his coffee.

[Hekate]

35. What demographic are you positing to vote for a non-Dem?Aside from the bots who "voted" Jill Stein?

Just curious. Who at this point is voting for a non-Dem candidate?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

37. Presumably Democratic voters who would vote for the Democrat if Schultz wasn't on the ballot.

[Bradshaw3]

42. Obviously some didn't learn from 2016

"Bots" didn't vote for Stein, a number of people who helped switch Fl to tRump did. Enough people to flip the election could vote for a third party candidate again, especially if the Dems nominate a candidate who can't win the upper midwest by enough to overcome election meddling, etc.

[LiberalLovinLug]

52. If he runs as third party, don't you think he will also siphon off disgruntled Republicans?

Especially if Trump manages to be able to run again. The so-called moderates the Mitt Romney Republicans. The John McCain Republicans. The ones, though, that are still poisoned by Putin's trolls, and think the Clinton's, and by extension, all Democrats are not to be trusted. But they acknowledge that voting for Trump was a mistake, even if privately. And are grateful for another, big capitalist success story choice besides Trump.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

53. Josh Marshall puts it more succinctly than I ever could.

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I would say at the moment, electorally Trump is dying. So any reshuffling is good for him.

[louis c]

31. All we need is enough idiots to screw us again...

...Nader was a nice guy and Jill Stein was just terrific.

Yet, look what the idiots did. Bush and Trump. I guess we'll never learn our lesson.

Instead of using his money to get Trump out of office, Schultz will use his money to siphon votes from Trump's only viable opponent.

Lenin had a name for assholes like Schultz, useful idiots. And the people who support him will be in the same category.

[Hekate]

36. Lennon? Maybe Lenin did.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. What if his candidacy led to a second Trump term?

[Hekate]

28. See my reply#27 above

[Recursion]

45. Oddly enough, no

Retailers don't get to realize revenue from gift cards until they're redeemed.

[erronis]

55. So the money stays with the credit-card issuing company until spent, or lost.

Thanks for that info.

Somehow I'd rather even Starbucks or Macys or anybody other than Citi/Chase/Amex/whatever gets to use the money.

[Doremus]

16. He's as "Democratic" as Ronnie Raygun

"We can't afford single payer health care"
"Tax cut for corps was a bit much" but would've given one
"Deficit is too high"
Etc etc


Dump doesn't know how to run a country but this douche does with the same credentials. Why do assholes like this have egos the size of Texas?

[Laffy Kat]

25. I already do.

Ever since they partnered with Nestles.

[IronLionZion]

32. I've wondered what sort of people go there

since they have one on every block in my city, someone must be buying their products.

I've been buying whole beans and grinding/brewing coffee at home for years. Buying coffee from shops every day is such a waste.

Dude has worked there longer than I've been alive so he must have done something right to put one on every corner. That doesn't qualify him to be president.

[volstork]

39. I already do.

Their $5.00 coffee sucks. Plus, it's fattening.

[Ferrets are Cool]

40. LOL I would have to go there to boycott it.

I know I'm an oldie, but dayum, I'm not paying $5 for a damn cup of coffee.

[Ohiogal]

41. I have had it

with billionaire CEOs who have never held public office of any kind, who think just because they made a big pile of money, they know what's best for our country.

[MrGrieves]

43. A brand spanking new Caribou coffee went up

A brand spanking new Caribou coffee went up right by my house next to a starbucks. Easy change for me.

[The Genealogist]

44. Won't be hard. Their coffee sucks.

I guess it is better than some of them generic brand coffee I have had, but it tastes terrible. I've never figured out why people flock to it like it is gold. Pick a mom and pop diner at random and they will have better cheaper.

[stopbush]

46. How do I boycott a place I never go to?

[Soxfan58]

48. Give me Dunkin anyday!

[populistdriven]

49. D I T T O.

X9999999999999999999

[demigal]

50. Only 1 cup of starbucks coffee in 78 years

so I will have no trouble in boycotting.

[George II]

51. No need for a boycott by me, I hate Starbucks coffee anyway.

[MadDAsHell]

54. Agreed. No white male candidates.

Haven't we learned our lesson?

[pansypoo53219]

56. never been. tried their swill at a barnes & nobel. burnt beans suck. i make own much cheaper.

use a $4 vintage stove top drip-o-later. hand filter. make my own butterscotch. hell, i even have a victorian bur grinder.

[Totally Tunsie]

57. I'll take a Dunkin', please!

[SirElaih]

58. Lots of people work at Starbucks

... and good Democrats, many of them. Why should they be punished for some eccentric Billionaire's folly? Doesn't seem right to me.

[milestogo]

60. I already boycott Starbucks, for having coffee that is too expensive

unless I am stuck in an airport where I have no choice.