Topic: Starbucks

Farewell to straws? January 29, 2023 Thomas Lifson Two of the biggest sellers of drinks normally consumed with straws are testing out plastic lids that have no hole for a straw.  Both companies implicitly acknowledge that paper straws are worse than useless. Another quality of life degradation in the name of a nonexistent envirnmental threat.
Starbucks to phase out its iconic disposable cups March 20, 2022 Eric Utter The Seattle-based chain claims it is aiming to “create a cultural movement towards reusables” by 2025 – by coercing the public into getting their drinks in reusable containers.
Bezos discovers that $17 million doesn't buy much protection from the mobs August 10, 2020 Thomas Lifson If Bezos thought that virtue-signaling big donations would buy immunity for Amazon from the mobs, he was mistaken.  
Starbucks caught insulting cops...again December 16, 2019 Monica Showalter Seems to be a pattern with these leftists, given that they've had three anti-cop incidents in less than six months.
Starbucks open-bathroom policy driving customers away –study November 18, 2019 Monica Showalter Maybe opening the bathrooms to all comers wasn't such a good idea after all.
Starbucks armors up its baristas for onslaught of angry Pajama Boys January 31, 2019 Monica Showalter Company officials expect leftists be angry at Howard Schultz's possible run for president and are expecting them to take it out on Starbucks's hapless baristas.
Democrats take aim at Starbucks to 'school' Howie Schultz January 29, 2019 Monica Showalter Poor Howie Schultz. All he wanted was to do good in the world in that liberal way of his, and now he and his company are facing the wrath and destruction of Democrats.
Howie Schultz in all his Alan Alda glory January 28, 2019 Monica Showalter He's a nice guy, but how's he going to take on the bums in the bathroom?
Disney/ABC Should Merge with Starbucks and the NFL June 3, 2018 Clarice Feldman On the one hand, in popular culture we get nothng but craziness. Whereas in politics we get... more craziness. 
Starbucks decides to turn its cafes into homeless shelters May 20, 2018 Ed Straker Starbucks has opened its tables and bathooms to the public and, boy, are Seattle's homeless gonna be happy this winter...
Starbucks chairman announces free bathrooms and table space for the homeless May 11, 2018 Monica Showalter Watch how Howie Schultz's customers, franchisers, shareholders, and labor force love him for this.  
How I got Starbucked at a Hampton Inn April 20, 2018 Jack Cashill Starbucked: verb, past participle - Asked to leave a commercial establishment because one is not paying for the services he is using.
Starbucks, and all those staged events and phony outrage April 20, 2018 John Dietrich It is becoming more obvious that progressives are staging events.
Starbucks in the Land of Fruits and Nuts April 6, 2018 Ted Noel California's bureaucrats aren't up to regulating coffee as supposedly cancerous. But somehow, they've decided that coffee is guilty until proven innocent and are doing it anyway. Here's why they are clueless.
Can someone smack Starbucks' Howie Schultz out of his 'Unicorn' dream? April 29, 2017 Monica Showalter What's with Starbucks majordomo Howie Schultz praising his Unicorn, another sugary drink he's foisted on us?  Howie!  We like the coffee!  How about more of that?
Would you like some dialog with your coffee? March 26, 2015 Hugh MacKenzie A setup lurking in the shadow of Lenin's directive to "make everything a political issue."  
Starbucks ends 'race together' campaign March 23, 2015 Thomas Lifson Our national nightmare has ended.  For now.
The High and Low Road of Gun Rights October 6, 2013 Jack Eldon Jackson People who scream something are always wrong, even if they happen to be right.
Terror attack in San Jose? April 30, 2013 Lee DeCovnick A disturbing story of a failed poisoning at a local Starbucks leaves us with many unanswered questions. It will be instructive to watch the follow-up reporting (or lack thereof) by the hyper politically correct MSM of the San Francisco Bay Area