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Another reason to not go to

Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2019 in General Discussion
Starbucks

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7219611/Five-police-officers-kicked-Starbucks-customer-complained-didnt-feel-safe.html


A group of Arizona police officers were asked to leave a Starbucks coffee shop on July 4 after a customer complained to staff that she ?didn?t feel safe? with them being there, reports say.

Five cops from the Tempe Police Department were drinking at a branch of the coffee chain in the city when they were approached by a barista and told that a customer had made a complaint about their presence.

The worker is said to have told them to either move out of the complaining customer?s line of sight or leave the premises entirely, the Tempe Officers Association claimed in a series of tweets.

President of the union, Rob Ferraro, believes the treatment the officers were subjected to is an unfortunate sign of the times.

?It?s become accepted to not trust or to see police and think that we?re not here to serve you,? Ferraro told FOX 10.

As if there were not enough reasons. I wouldn't go in one to take a dump.
RLTW

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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just another example of how to win enemies and influence more of them! :lol:
    What's next?
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  • diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,336 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Any Biotch that would go tell them that, is a freak that would poison their orders.

    F Starbucks and the Red Cross.

    Harrumph
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    I wouldn't be caught dead in a Starbucks! Over-priced swill made for Yuppies and wanna be socialites.

    Just give me my Maxwell House original roast black in the morning at home without adding to much to the family budget!
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I was one of the cops I would have told the worker to give her a message for me..."if you don't think you feel safe now just wait until you get outside!"
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  • mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You have to understand Starbunks policy of open door for vagrants and homeless occupation. So yeah, I can see why their clientele might be scared.

    Cops need to be at another donut house when that Starbucks ever calls the police.
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,042 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I will contact their HQ and tell them I WAS. A regular but will boycott now - just because
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Most people are pro law enforcement. I believe Starbucks will lose business because of what they did.

    :D Mabe the customer did not feel safe because they have warrants out on them. :D

    The only negative for the cops is people will wonder if they have that much money to waste at Starbucks mabe they are overpaid.
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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,283 ******
    edited November -1
    Cue-Queue
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  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,276 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Seems to me that the manager of that joint needs to explain simple economics to the person that asked the cops to leave.
    At table 'A' I have five paying customers. At table 'B' I have one paying customer. Table 'B' is uncomfortable so they ask Table 'A' to leave? STOOPID!
    This is, of course, leaving out the whole issue of one snowflake being scared of the big bad police that are there to protect said snowflake...
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A Gadzillion years ago, the NYC Police were complained on by the Diplomats and their cronies around the UN building. Seems the Leo's were putting parking tickets on illegally
    double parked cars that were obstructing traffic. THE NERVE OF THEM WRITING TICKETS!!
    The local station house pulled all the cops from that area.
    Then by some mysterious thing, windshields were getting broken on double parked cars.
    :D :shock:

    The UN people called back and complained about NO law enforcement in the area!!!

    If left alone, most cops know how to handle A_H+=les like those in Starbucks... ;);)
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  • SW0320SW0320 Member Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Brookwood wrote:
    I wouldn't be caught dead in a Starbucks! Over-priced swill made for Yuppies and wanna be socialites.

    Just give me my Maxwell House original roast black in the morning at home without adding to much to the family budget!

    Well I would be caught dead in there, that is the only way I they are going to get my body in Starbucks.
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  • Quick&DeadQuick&Dead Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have never been in one and never intend to.
    There is NO WAY I would pay what they charge for their overpriced so-called "coffee."

    :D
    The government has no rights. Only the people have rights which empowers the government.
    We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
    Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.

    I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
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  • Quick&DeadQuick&Dead Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never been in one but have heard what they charge.

    There is NO WAY I will ever go to one.

    8-)
    The government has no rights. Only the people have rights which empowers the government.
    We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
    Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.

    I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    In truth, just about all of the "fast food" places make more money on their fancy named coffee drinks than they do on the FOOD!

    I do enjoy a good milk shake once in a blue moon and even one that Arby's calls a Mocha shake. They cost about the same as the other Lati-da coffee stuff, but my taste buds do crave ice cream more than sweet coffee.
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  • fatcat458fatcat458 Member Posts: 436 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never did like Starsucks ;)
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  • droptopdroptop Member Posts: 8,363 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wonder why ANY police person would pay for expensive coffee in paper cups in the first place. :?
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  • mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hypothetical question. Suppose another customer got in the face of the whiner while the cops were present. Would the cops have to protect the idiot who didn't feel safe as they were getting beat down by another irate customer?
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  • mnrivrat48mnrivrat48 Member Posts: 1,707 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Coffee should be strong and black. You want something else throw in, set the cup next to a fire hydrant for awhile.
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd rather Starbucks continue to allow anyone to use their restrooms than have to step over poop on the sidewalk.

    Neal
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  • WearyTravelerWearyTraveler Member Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I drink a pot of brewed coffee every morning. But whenever we go to ?the big city? we like to stop at a coffee place. Ms. WT usually gets a whipped cream topped frappa something. If we?re in one place I get a double espresso. If it?s the Starbucks I get a chai tea. ?Fancy? coffee is our treat to ourselves when we?re in a city with a coffee shop. So, to us, that ~$10 is well spent for 2 drinks and Wi-Fi that?s faster than our 700kb internet.

    Yes, I?d prefer to visit a small business vs. Starbucks, but we usually visit Starbucks in Winchester on our every other month trip.

    I?m not sure that boycotting Starbucks because one manager in a store screwed the pooch. Especially since Starbucks responded the way they did. Now, if Starbucks policy was ?no cops? or ?no guns? that?d be a different story. Or if Starbucks corporate responded with ?we stand with our local manager decision? that?s a different story.

    Now, if you don?t want to pay $4 for a coffee, then don?t. But I?m pretty sure that as long as the economy stays vibrant, Starbucks will have plenty of customers...
    ”People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
    - GEORGE ORWELL -
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  • bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,792 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just remember that this is likely a regular employee that may (or may not) have handled it the way the company wishes. I am not defending them. I have never been in one, don't drink coffee anyway. But, just because an employee does something, doesn't mean it reflects company policy / stance. If/when they address this publicly will show how the company itself feels.
    Fanatic collector of the 10mm auto.
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  • WearyTravelerWearyTraveler Member Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    bambihunter wrote:
    Just remember that this is likely a regular employee that may (or may not) have handled it the way the company wishes. I am not defending them. I have never been in one, don't drink coffee anyway. But, just because an employee does something, doesn't mean it reflects company policy / stance. If/when they address this publicly will show how the company itself feels.

    Exactly... And the company issued a statement that they disagreed with what that individual employee / manager did.
    ”People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
    - GEORGE ORWELL -
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