So you tried to donate them and homeless folks said "No thanks, I'll starve"?
Starbucks sells food too. Even a few dollars left on a gift card, a homeless person would have happily accepted.
Starbucks Discrimination
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So you tried to donate them and homeless folks said "No thanks, I'll starve"?
Starbucks sells food too. Even a few dollars left on a gift card, a homeless person would have happily accepted.
natural in ATL
15+ years natural
Since you’re trying to police my giving, I’ll explain a bit more. I don’t live in an area where there’s an abundance of homeless people (actually none that I’ve seen). I don’t plan to drive 40 min to find them and give them my two cards. I asked a few people I know personally.
Menina Preta
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Why you even explaining lol? Do you. Who is anyone to tell you how to boycott? Smh.
Not trying to police your giving, my point was that Starbucks profited from you cutting up gift cards, while someone else could have benefited. And there are many avenues to donate gift cards nowadays that don't require a 40 minute drive. Some people even use it as tax deduction.
natural in ATL
15+ years natural
I get it. But actually Starbuck profited before I cut them up...they profited when the original buyers purchased the cards (they were gifts given to me). That was the point of my response a few posts back - the amount of money in product they'd spend on me or someone else going in to redeem a gift card is minimal. They've got the money, but they're not getting my time/effort of going into their stores to redeem.
chicitygirl
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All I'm saying is, it's not a boycott if they got the money and didn't have to provide a service or product. That's what they want. They don't care if they see you step foot in there or not. They got their money, so the jokes on the cardholder. It's not a personal attack, just facts. But I get what your motive was.
FemmeCreole
Island Gyal
Thanks.
I saw this Gayle King's interview with a starbucks exec, who confirmed the woman is not long with the company.
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ThirdEyeBeauty
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I understand what is being said but the joke is not on the OP as a receiver. She can throw the cards in the trash as soon as she recieved them. The joke is on the person who purchased the card but if they were giving it as a gift then they should not judge how the gift was used/not used.
Now as a "payback" one could give it to black homeless men who has several other homeless men with mobile phones.
awhyley
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Haven't been through the thread again yet, but has anyone posted the Starbucks alternatives for the coffee-addicted?
Link: https://shoppeblack.us/2018/04/black-owned-coffee-tea-starbucks-alternatives/
Link: https://shoppeblack.us/2018/04/black-owned-coffee-tea-starbucks-alternatives/
Southernbella.
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atlien11
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Am i wrong for feeling like i want to walk into a starbucks today and be extra demanding with my order just to see the white barista's tap dance to get it right (or else...!! 
).
"I would like a double tall, sheep milk , half caramel pump, pomegranate swedish fish latte. With Hennessy whip cream, a sprinkle of vanilla beans grown in the south west region of madagascar and please hold the graham cracker crust".
*sigh* Can someone drag me off an airline flight or ask me to leave an establishment so i can sue and get paid please? (asking for a friend
).
)."I would like a double tall, sheep milk , half caramel pump, pomegranate swedish fish latte. With Hennessy whip cream, a sprinkle of vanilla beans grown in the south west region of madagascar and please hold the graham cracker crust".
*sigh* Can someone drag me off an airline flight or ask me to leave an establishment so i can sue and get paid please? (asking for a friend
).Christina Dior
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Seriously? My cafe?? You are not a damn franchise owner in anyway dummy. Probably wasn’t even making enough, what 45k a year??? To make that phone call? And now be let go? They are DELUSIONAL.
Everything Zen
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Just start calling the cops on them for stupid asinine things.
Did I tell you guys about the white bike riders who called the cops on a black couple in a car last summer in front of my condo? It was almost fisticuffs on my street and I knew right away it was some BS.
Apparently black dude in the car cut off the bike riders as they were riding in Chicago traffic and could have potentially hit them. Tell my why did the white dude PUNCH the side of the black dude’s car multiple times bc he was angry about it and demanded that they pull over.
The white couple called the cops on the black couple and stayed out there looking like they made a a citizen’s arrest for a good thirty minutes in front of our condo. It was ridiculous- you should have seen it- 2 white bicyclist behind a parked car
. They thought they were really in the right too when the cops arrived.
Cops come talk to both parties and after a few minutes let the black couple leave. The bike riders were shocked! Shocked I say when the police talked to them for a good 15 minutes after they let the black couple go bc basically the white dude assaulted the man’s car, made a false call to the cops and detained the couple against their will, etc. Of course the police let them go but I believe if the shoe was on the other foot the black couple would have been in trouble.
Did I tell you guys about the white bike riders who called the cops on a black couple in a car last summer in front of my condo? It was almost fisticuffs on my street and I knew right away it was some BS.
Apparently black dude in the car cut off the bike riders as they were riding in Chicago traffic and could have potentially hit them. Tell my why did the white dude PUNCH the side of the black dude’s car multiple times bc he was angry about it and demanded that they pull over.
The white couple called the cops on the black couple and stayed out there looking like they made a a citizen’s arrest for a good thirty minutes in front of our condo. It was ridiculous- you should have seen it- 2 white bicyclist behind a parked car
. They thought they were really in the right too when the cops arrived. Cops come talk to both parties and after a few minutes let the black couple leave. The bike riders were shocked! Shocked I say when the police talked to them for a good 15 minutes after they let the black couple go bc basically the white dude assaulted the man’s car, made a false call to the cops and detained the couple against their will, etc. Of course the police let them go but I believe if the shoe was on the other foot the black couple would have been in trouble.
msbettyboop
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Seriously, this police have no work. Someone called that two people aren't making a purchase and leaving a coffee shop and you send not 1, not 2, not 3 but 7 police officers???? She didn't even ask if they looked dangerous or threatening or anything.
MzLady78
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Am i wrong for feeling like i want to walk into a starbucks today and be extra demanding with my order just to see the white barista's tap dance to get it right (or else...!!
"I would like a double tall, sheep milk , half caramel pump, pomegranate swedish fish latte. With Hennessy whip cream, a sprinkle of vanilla beans grown in the south west region of madagascar and please hold the graham cracker crust".
*sigh* Can someone drag me off an airline flight or ask me to leave an establishment so i can sue and get paid please? (asking for a friend
Girl, I have to kill some time and I'm tempted to go post up at a Starbucks. I'm tired of working.
chicitygirl
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In Chicago, they would have asked if anyone had been shot or injured and when the answer was no, they'd have said they ain't gon be able to make it out there. I guess that's the only upside of them having real crime to deal with
. My old neighbor stayed calling the police about stupid stuff like this and they never showed up.It looks like LA Fitness already fired 3 employees. As @Zaynab mentioned, it seems other companies may be paying attention to this Starbucks fiasco. Good. Also, I'm not sure how to properly post as a story. Sorry, ladies.
https://articles.nj.com/hudson/inde...kicking_2_men_o.amp?__twitter_impression=true
https://articles.nj.com/hudson/inde...kicking_2_men_o.amp?__twitter_impression=true
DH just told me he noticed the sane thing when he’s been out.
Also Last week we made a large home purchase at a store I’ve previously bought other items. But this morning the store manager called to ask how everything was going, thanks for my purchase and If I needed anything to let them know. I’ve never ever had that happen. It wasn’t a customer service/survey call either Also, when DH and I went in to purchase he was in his usual laid back sweatpants etc probably didn’t look like he had $5. NOW I’m certain these companies and stores are on high alert and treating black customers differently because they don’t want to be the next Starbucks.
ThirdEyeBeauty
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^^^ See people. Never underestimate the power of money.
It was very strange. I have never had anyone call me from the store before
This may be true. But if Starbucks keeps losing customers (finances) they'll get their legal teams to validate dismissing that store manager as a Starbucks employee. Right now, no matter how much they apologize, hold classes on 'ethics', invite Black families to their 'family picnics', happy hours, sent Black children to camp or college funds -- none of that will mean anything as long as that manager remains as one of 'theirs'... a member of the team at Starbucks. Her being there speaks that they share her views and support what she did.
If Starbucks is truly sorry, she's no longer with them. She does not represent a sincere apology or who they want 'us' to believe that they are.
Did this manager ever apologize? No, she did not. She needs to go.
How brazenly wicked for no reason does one have to be to literally sit around cooking up ways to harm people that don't even know you exist?! Racism is a collective, vile sickness. So insecure in your supposed superiority that you have to waste valuable time, energy, and resources to prove time and again how much better you are. Except they aren't, and they know it, which is why they've spent centuries in a twisted obsession of us. If we were that inferior, they really wouldn't need to bother.
So unnecessary to make that call.
Everything Zen
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I swear it’s partial racial bias, partial power trip.
naturalgyrl5199
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Good! LA Fitness FIRED those employees for racial profiling! Good riddance!
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