Four weeks ago, Starbucks CEO Howard Schutz told the NY Times that the company was assessing increasing threats to public safety over it's "all inclusive" 2018 bathroom policy that encouraged homeless people and drug addicts to make copious use.
Now, the company is now shuttering 16 locations in major cities over incidents related to drug use and 'other disruptions' in its cafes, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The company on Monday announced that it would be permanently closing six stores each in Seattle and Los Angeles, as well as two in Portland, OR, and single locations in Philadelphia and Washington DC by the end of the month.
The move comes after workers reported incidents involving drug use by customers and members of the public - which, logically, comes after the company's 2018 virtue signaling campaign which eventually included the installation of needle deposit boxes at various locations after employees signed a petition demanding the company do more to protect them.
Oh yeah this is normal in any fast food restaurant. I work in a McDonalds and we often have druggies in the toilets. We keep a couple of sharps boxes around because of them.
We shut our toilets on the overnight because if we didn't then we'd be dragging a corpse out in the morning. Management got sick of having to shut the store every morning to deal with bodies/overdoses/people who had collapsed.
Carter Perry
It is really not my problem.
Jackson Mitchell
Hey Jeremy no one gives a shit, corporations steal from the ppl. Let it crumble
Robert Perry
why not change the bathroom policy rather than close the stores?
do they care that much about their retarded ideology that they can't admit it was the wrong move? they would have close stores and hurt income than admit they were wrong?
its more likely its an excuse rather than the reason Better to say something is about external factors beyond your control rather than admit a store is unprofitable
Jackson Parker
I always poop in the bathroom sink when i go to Starbucks.
Kevin Torres
>rich sheltered white guy is out of touch and learns why you can’t just be nice to everyone all the time
Cameron Walker
The Western world, specifically it’s brand of law and justice where everyone is equal, is not setup to deal with the problem of mass homelessness and a population that doesn’t fear incarceration.
Luke Robinson
Never been here, was it ever any good? I think it's more the backlash to changing these policies and being anti-homeless which already happened before lol
Nicholas Sanders
They aren't going broke. They just punishing their employees for unionizing
