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Starbucks to close over 8,000 stores in U.S. for anti-bias training

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They won't be getting another dollar from me. I refuse to have my money spent on pathetic pandering like this.

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Publicity stunt and a huge waste of money.

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Teach them how to make a descent coffee first surely..

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Sounds like re-education Chairman Mao wold be proud of.

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Starbucks did absolutely nothing wrong !

Anyone abusing my business premises would be asked to leave too..,.,

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Everyone is biased due to our different histories with different sorts of people.

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Starbucks did absolutely nothing wrong !

Anyone abusing my business premises would be asked to leave too..,.,

Their premises weren't being "abused", get off it. Don't try to make it dramatic. The manager of the store abused his position by call the police to deject the 2 men SITTING when he could have easily handled the situation himself. If someone in a store is being abusive, violent, etc then by all means get rid of them and call the cop. This clearly wasn't the case.

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Starbucks did absolutely nothing wrong !

Spot on.

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I suppose they did nothing wrong if you discount years of low wages and harassing workers for any attempts to unionize. I suppose there's nothing at all wrong with discriminating against people of color, either.

Which is why it will be just fine for me to discriminate against any Americans setting foot on my premises. Because, you know, they're all troublemakers... right?

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I still not heard of the man they were suppose to meet with that fantastic business/real estate deal. I cannot help but wonder if the whole thing was a set-up either by the company for publicity or by the two men that are now millionaires.

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I may be old fashioned but ...

i hate seeing people sitting in Starbucks after they’ve clearly finished their drink and studying or reading or sleeping for another hour. Maybe okay if it’s half full but I’ve felt like telling people to leave when there are people who can’t sit down because students are using it as a library.

Worse is how a singly person will sit in a four person booth.

As as for the racism. Sorry, but stereotypes exist for a reason.

and whites are the least racist in my experience - though I haven’t actually lived in certain parts of the US

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Their premises weren't being "abused",

Yes they were. These two men chose to sit their senseitive privileged behinds on the couch along the wall taking up two tables instead of sitting across from each other, and didn't order anything. All races do it, it's not about race it's about character. It really bugs me when people take handicapped parking spaces when they clearly don't need to.

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We could use some of that kind of training here in Japan

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As as for the racism. Sorry, but stereotypes exist for a reason.

Because certain people insist on perpetuating them.

and whites are the least racist in my experience

Odd, I find it the opposite, in my experience. Up close and real personal, like.

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I was boycotting Starbucks long before this incident because of their over-priced crappy coffee, but this latest PC nonsense has now given me another good reason to never give them a red cent of my money.

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This is an issue I really dont get. I've long understood that when you sit around inside a business premise like a cafe, part of the price you pay is for the real estate you're occupying. As kids we'd have to use stealth to use the washrooms in Ronne D's, because we knew we werent allowed to go in and use them useless we bought something there. Having the manager throw out kids like us was a common - and accepted - occurance.

Dare I say this Starbucks thing is an issue of racial entitlement?

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Starbucks has always been a progressive company founded in Seattle by yuppies (young up-and-coming professionals)

This is just on par

They'll run their business as they have always been

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Wait -- I thought Starbucks was a "progressive" company, and that "progressive" people were supposedly more racially and culturally enlightened than the rest of us.

Why, then, do they need "racial sensitivity training" in the first place?

Lol, never hired people, have ya?

Unfortunately, not every hire is what ya expect them to be

Even the police has training for Ethics and Professionalism - even though, as police authorities, they're already expected to be ethical and professional to serve and protect the public

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@econstats

But if this had happen in Japan, you would be screaming murder.

LOL. Pure speculation on the charactor of someone you basically know nothing about. Anyway, you're wrong (once again), because I wouldn't. I first came to Japan way back when a coffee at a Ginza kissaten was $12, 10 times the price as in foreign countries at the time. Before arriving I had read - and understood - the rationale that most of the $12 was to cover the exorbitant rent and other costs paid by the proprieter.

Thus, I made a point of spending no time at all in such places, either legitimately and certainly not illegitimately.

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Any business offering any type of service for free is going to be taken advantage of and will eventually be forced to close.

Freeloaders do not a business make......

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JeffLee: I've long understood that when you sit around inside a business premise like a cafe, part of the price you pay is for the real estate you're occupying.

Absolutely. I often go to a local cafe that charges 300 yen for a cup of hot tea. This is ridiculous in and of itself: hot water is essentially free, and I can buy a box of 15 teabags at the neighboring supermarket for less than 300 yen. But I feel the price is warranted for my "rental" of the space, the atmosphere, the comfortable shelter from the rain or humidity, etc. I wouldn't dream of expecting that to be provided for free.

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@rocketpanda

The manager had asked them to leave-they didn’t so he called the police.

I would have done exactly the same....

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