Two years ago, National Legal and Policy Center’s Carl Horowitz foretold that policies implemented by Starbucks, in response to a nationwide uproar over an incident in a Philadelphia store, “will not work.” Horowitz emphasized the failures of mandatory diversity training, which the company imposed on employees across its more than 8,000 locations in May 2018, while shutting down […]
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Sorry Starbucks, You’re Stuck With Howard Schultz
Now that Howard Schultz supposedly has disengaged himself from Starbucks and is considering a run for the presidency in 2020, the company fears his political pursuits will hurt their bottom line. Well too bad. After decades of liberal activism and supporting Democratic candidates like Hillary Clinton, Schultz now says he may run as an independent. […]
Time for Starbucks to Break With Schultz’ Left-Wing Politics
It has been reported that the idea of former CEO Howard Schultz running as a Democrat for the presidency is giving Starbucks investors, financial analysts, and company officials cause for concern. It’s apparently not far-fetched. When he finally announced his long-anticipated departure from the company on June 26, Schultz told employees he would think “about a […]
Starbucks ‘Anti-Bias’ Training Will Not Work
Never before in the history of corporate America has a company so welcomed accusations of racism as Starbucks. But that could have been expected given the worldview of Executive Chairman Howard Schultz. Several weeks ago, Schultz announced that on May 29 he would close around 8,000 of the company’s outlets to train employees on how to recognize […]
Starbucks Closing Stores on May 29 for ‘Anti-Bias’ Indoctrination
The term “corporate diversity” these days refers far less to a diversity of opinion than to a diversity of demography in which people submit to rigid codes of speech and behavior if they want to stay employed. Of the many companies enforcing this regime, Starbucks has been especially zealous. On April 18, 2018, Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard […]
Starbucks’ Refugees Move Costs Them With Customers
Starbucks and its CEO Howard Schultz are known well for wading in to divisive political issues and in support for liberal candidates like Hillary Clinton, yet it never seems to cost them significantly in either sales or stock price. Even when Schultz told shareholders to sell if they don’t agree with corporation stances on issues […]
I’ve Had My Last Cup of Starbucks Coffee
At the Starbucks annual meeting on March 20, CEO Howard Schultz told a shareholder named Tom Strobhar to sell his stock if he disagreed with the company’s embrace of gay marriage. Shareholders do have this prerogative. That is the beauty of securities markets. But the issue is not so simple. Institutional investors now own the […]
Memo to Starbucks: Dig In, Smell the Coffee, Fight Back
Starbucks, that epitome of a socially-conscious corporation, is now the target of a campaign among self-styled socially-conscious activists. One can understand why radical activists would go after discount retail behemoth Wal-Mart. But who would have thought they’d have classy Starbucks in their sights? Last month, Brave New Films, an independent documentary production company based in […]