If you want to overpay for coffee, keep frequenting Starbucks.BTW, this is for all the smug folks who wrote "check your source, the story is false." The story is partially true. The Starbucks CEO didn't say it to customers. He said it to a shareholder.The story was carried by Forbes.com.“In the first full quarter after this boycott was announced, our sales
and our earnings, shall we say politely, were a bit disappointing,” said
the shareholder, Tom Strobhar.Shultz replied "We employ over 200,000 people in this company, and we want to embrace diversity. Of all kinds.”
At that point the audience interrupted in cheers and applause. Then
Schultz concluded, “If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher
return than the 38% you got last year, it’s a free country. You can
sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank
you very much.”Like all liberals, when he says "support diversity" he means support diversity as long as it's the same as us. Supporting diversity falls short of supporting people who are against changing marriage to include gay couples.
@fcabanski: All those smug folks are correct, the story is completely false.Neither the company nor the CEO released the quote that was claimed in the original post, not to customers, shareholders, or anyone else. These BS quotes and false statements get everyone so riled up it's ridiculous. The CEO affirmed his company's commitment to diversity at a shareholders meeting as you correctly stated, and made the point that he is delivering above average returns while doing so. There is no reasonable way to translate the original quote into what was stated at the shareholders meeting. The original quote is false, and was distributed intentionally to cause controversy.
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