“How about you just not get involved in politics at all? I know there’s that huge, leftist-political-indoctrinated-infrastructure you desperately want to capitalize on. I know your ego is masturbatorily stroked when you virtue signal like you were trained to in college. I know you yourself likely have nothing else in life but a career and your recycling and telling me how you have a black friend. And I know you’re all likely just a bunch of low brow, 105 IQ MBA’s with no more creative arrows in your business management quiver.
But how about you just sell good products at fair prices?”
My sentiments exactly. I hope McCafe puts them out of business but I doubt that we should be so lucky as Starbuck’s customers are loyal progressives who must feel good about paying a hefty premium for burn’t Coffee while hanging out in their bubble.
Y’know, Starbucks sells $5 coffee. They’ve managed to trick the market into paying double or triple what it used to cost to buy coffee. That’s a huge profit margin, and explains why they’re so successful. It also explains why they’re vulnerable to delusions of grandeur. (Or is that Grandi-eur? 🙂 )
You could argue that anyone who patronizes Starbucks is enabling their racket, and the social engineering that goes with it. So if you don’t appreciate their injected politics, find somewhere else to drink coffee.
The list of these cringing, virtue-signaling corporations is effin endless.
Chevrolet just had to have 2 men holding hands in their HNIC ad; Toyota has been suckin’ to the greenies for years; and IKEA will probably have a tranny snuggling with a billy-goat any day now.
Thanks for that last mental image.
I’ll never look at those Swedish meatballs the same again…
There’s nothing like the smell of freshly brewed coffee even the cheap stuff like Maxwell House. However, walk by a Starbucks outlet and the aroma reminds me of coffee that has been sitting on the burner for two or three days. Bitter, scorched and unappetizing. I wouldn’t drink a cup of the slop if it was free. Unlike many on this site, I am a diehard Tim Horton’s fan. The service sucks but the coffee is delicious to the point of being addictive.
For those who actually enjoy coffee, Tim Hortons is not an option. Starbucks serves far, faaaarrr better coffee, but at a far, faaaarrr higher price. I agree that their virtue signaling is nauseating and their politics Marxist. That said, Tim Hortons is not a viable alternative. Their coffee is of similar quality to that of a French-press filled with the contents of an ashtray.
Those who believe they love Tim Hortons coffee actually love the thick cream it is mixed with.
Biffjr, when you say Tim’s service sucks, I presume you mean ‘slow’. If so, same here in my little NB town. I can get breakfast at MacDonald’s faster than I can get a cup of Tim’s coffee, FFS!
The reason you so often see cops at Tim Horton’s in the middle of the night is there’s no place with good coffee open.
biffjr, I think Starbucks has the worst coffee on the planet. I will drink a Tim’s occasionally but many today think McDonald’s is better than both and I tend to agree with them.
traditional religion is one the decline, new religion is on the rise. From bible bull$hit to liberal bull$hit!
Cappy, a man with an IQ of 150 (sbs) has a lot of questions, the idiot (think unthing) with an IQ of 105, has all the answers:-)))
Well said Aaron, and as well, all of the above.
We avoid these virtue-signalling corporations as much as possible and do not buy. It is hard to do so when even Costco has more and more ‘organic’ crap all the time in various shades of ‘green’ logos.
We don’t patronize Starbucks.
I started recycling during the 1980s. During that decade, I was on the dole because I, like many other people in my profession, had a hard time finding work. I squeezed as much as I could out of every dollar I had because money was scarce.
I started doing simple things such as using both sides of a sheet of paper rather just one side and chucking it out when I was done. I saw that sheet of paper not as something which might adversely affect the environment but as a way of saving money and that, if it could be recycled and reprocessed, it was a potential resource.
Unfortunately, nowadays, I have to see recycling as a way of keeping some one-legged xim/xer/xit of alternate ethnic inclination living in the jungles of Coleslawvania from having to eat carbon for supper. Uh, no, thanks.
Short answer to the article is
Because there is plenty of profit to be made by virtue signaling.
Switched to Starbucks when I realized that what I thought was coffee turned out to be warmed up dishwater. $2 and change for what amounts to a large dark roast with milk. $3 and change if I go for a 4 shot espresso – great if you have an especially busy day ahead of you.
Could care less about their politics, I’m just there for the coffee.
Give my order at the drive thru, a friendly server gives me my drink at the window without trying to guilt me out of $ for some pet handout du jour….
To each their own I say…
“Could care less about their politics, I’m just there for the coffee.”
Well, I’m more hard-headed I guess. I do my damnedest not give my money to obsequious corporations that help perpetuate myths and support scams. Same thing goes for small local businesses. Any businessman who supports the gender-blender-tax-and-spenders doesn’t deserve any of my money.
Started doing coffee in the Army. Infantry. Open foil packet. Pour into mouth. Take swig of canteen water, the water gotten from sugarcane ditch plus added a couple iodine water purificatio tablets. Its all good after that. Starbucks is too much for tropical toxic bean roasted to burt carcinogenic , hot filtered through bleached wood pulp.
Oh for the simpler day.
A Mad Men tv episode has the guy coming home from work with his drycleaned suit in hand. He takes off the plastic cover and throws it to the toddler on the floor to play with.
Those were the days.
But these days, one feels the need to take an article about the politicization of corporate America and use it to bash Christians.
That’s the world we live in and it’s that type of convoluted mental state that brought us here.
I make a great coffee right at home….DIY style…. grind whole beans and DRIP, DRIP, DRIP! ( 2 heaping Tbsp/ cup of H2O)
Brand name: VAN HOUTTE – DARK COLUMBIAN ROAST
( NO substitutions)
11 oz or 312 g bag size
Price: $11.99/ bag or on sale $7.99 occasionally
( senior’s @ -15% @ 1st Tuesday of month @ Save On)
( N.A. for me cuz I’m 12 years old )
Where to buy: On line or
Save on Foods Grocery store
Price: 10 or 15 cents per cup (rough guesstimate)
5 cents with a good sale.
P.S. I try to buy a years supply, in case of a blizzard!
Haven’t stopped into those fancy coffee shops in ages. They can’t see me cuz I’m too short. They say, next please, right over my head!
Let me know if you try it & like It!
Because you brew your coffee CORRECTLY … I will try your brand of Joe. Melitta drip method ONLY … #6 unbleached coffee filter paper. I make a full airpot every morning, and slowly consume all day. It is my #1 health food routine … as I know my body LOVES fresh, healthy coffee. I have a nice Capresso BURR grinder (the ONLY grinder to use). http://www.capresso.com/coffee-grinders/infinity-conical-burr-grinder-stainless-steel-1.html
My go-to coffee is Peet’s Garuda blend. But is getting too expensive … because I brew mine STRONG, like you. Time to look for a change
https://t.peets.com/garuda-blend.html
Kenji- thanks for your info on coffee grinders. I just found out that the one I own is obsolete (Braun), I grind the beans to a fine powder, so might invest in a new one.
Correction: use 2 heaping tbsp/ 12 oz H2O rather than 8 oz.
( try both amounts, till you are happy)
Good luck finding the coffee! Enjoy!
To be fair to Starbucks, they kicked off a whole generation of people who cared what their coffee tasted like and created half decent lids that weren’t a complete pain in the ass. prior to SB, you could only find decent coffee at some small Italian place, miles from your home, if at all. Before it was the land of time forgotten coffee, where the same pot lurked on the burner all day long. The same happened to beer, Canada lived in a beer wasteland, only made bearable by tasting US beers that managed to be worse somehow. Thank god for cottage brewing.
Moronic. If you don’t like their politics shop elsewhere.
Did you read the article Gord?
The Financial Post has covered this topic extensively.
Corporate Social Responsibility is code for Neo Marxist- Leninist.
The problem is the do-gooders going after these companies are never sated; well maybe when the evil capitalist’s head is lopped off and displayed on a pike in the town square.
So don’t shop there. They’re entitled to their opinion.
“They’re entitled to their opinion”
Corporate social responsibility bylaws and the social justice warriors ensure that yes a company is entitled to its opinion on any number of issues, as long as its opinion is the same as the do-gooders. I think that was the point of the article.
McDonald’s has CNN on 24 -7 (most recent blend is acceptable)
Starbucks sucks, over roasted, over ground, over extracted, over priced. 100% Democrat donations (and apparently, to John McCain which is even more abhorrent.)
Pete’s coffee, similar, with gun ban.
Panera DNC, and Obarfa registered donations (Coffee is OK but often edging on tepid.)
Even the local gas stations sell enviro 5h1te these days.
Dunkin’ Donuts my #1 if proximate.
McD’s coffee is old Tim’s blend. They bought the rites from Tim’s.
Interesting. Drilled down on this a bit and found that Tim’s abandoned their producer Mother Parker, (hopefully unaffiliated with Mother Jones). They apparently have attempted producing their coffee in house. Hard to tell but there seems to be a coincidence with the 3G Capital merge which is steadily screwing franchise owners and customers. The coffee is now apparently bad despite the typical “double double” (2 cream 2 sugar) preparation.
McDonald’s, wisely IMHO, jumped in with Mother Parker filling the void. They, for the first time, are enjoying a decent coffee reputation despite the bitter Cabal Network News atmosphere.
Horton’s is now in bed with Warren Buffet, Heinz, Labatt’s, Anheuser-Bush, Kraft, Popeye’s, etc. under 3G (Brazilian) Capital. So… they’re ruined. Sorry Canada ;(
Son of a gun. That explains a lot. Mother Parker is fairly good coffee. Smart of McD’s to get that, and I agree, their coffee is better than Tim’s, though I don’t mind the Tim’s dark roast (caveat: if you get the bottom of a dark roast pot, it is disgusting, tastes horribly burnt). I’m hardly a coffee connoisseur, though.
All that said, give me my french press at home over anything I can buy out any day. Plain old Costco Kirkland Columbian coffee in that thing makes a pretty good cup of coffee if I do say so myself.
i used to do a fresh grind per pot of mother parkers premium bean, back in the days when i had my coffee shop. it was good coffee then and if mcd’s is using it then that would be why theirs is good.
Yes McD really stepped up their coffee game, the only thing I buy there, in downtown Vancouver the McD and Tims have quite the coffee war going. The Starbuck shops staff work hard at the “personal connection” and I know that influences the buying choices of some of my workmates. The Tims staff are here flipped from mainly Filipina to mainland Chinese
I signal my own virtue with every cup of coffee I purchase retail. I ONLY buy from LOCAL coffee shops. I have multiple apps that help me avoid Star_ucks. “Around Me”, among others that locate all the LOCAL coffee shops. I NEVER go to a chain-store, prefabricated coffee shop. Ever. Star_ucks sells more SUGAR than coffee. Their coffee drinks should come with Federal WARNING labels … warning consumers of the high calories and high probability of Type II diabetes.