- Jan 17, 2010
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I came across a column published on an online newspaper recently...and it just about set me off, because I hear the same thing all the time from other people and I just need to rant about this for a minute...
First, he babbles on and on about how we need to look first at fixing our own poverty and unemployment issues before rushing off to hand out aid everywhere. Then he has the absolute audacity to call Starbucks and terrorists one and the same. He "heard" somewhere that Starbucks was not sending coffee to the troops because they "didn't approve" of the war. He called for people to support a boycott on Starbucks.
First off...dunno where he "hears" things, but my mother has been a manager of a Starbucks store for quite a long time and sends boxes upon boxes of coffee out to the troops quite regularly. I have personally participated in the delivery of said boxes...we were recently sent a very neat thank you from a Lt. Colonel including some photos and the flag they had flying over their base for a couple months...very touching. I KNOW hers is not the only store doing this.
How can someone have a call to arms about eradicating our own unemployment problems one paragraph, and then announce boycotting an entire company the next? yeah sure, that makes loads of sense! Does he have any idea of how many jobs would be lost if that were to happen? Of how many have already been lost? How can someone contradict themselves so badly? I don't get it.
You see, I hear this "boycott Starbucks" thing quite a lot around here for varying reasons and it makes absolutely no sense to me. I realise it's currently the "in" thing to do, but all because the coorperation is big and rich doesn't automatically make it evil. Starbucks in fact manages to do a lot of good where it can, which is more than can be said for the tiny little local businesses...yeah, I'm all for supporting the local coffee joints, but I really wish people would bother to educate themselves a bit better before jumping all willy nilly on the bandwagon here.
End of rant...
First, he babbles on and on about how we need to look first at fixing our own poverty and unemployment issues before rushing off to hand out aid everywhere. Then he has the absolute audacity to call Starbucks and terrorists one and the same. He "heard" somewhere that Starbucks was not sending coffee to the troops because they "didn't approve" of the war. He called for people to support a boycott on Starbucks.
First off...dunno where he "hears" things, but my mother has been a manager of a Starbucks store for quite a long time and sends boxes upon boxes of coffee out to the troops quite regularly. I have personally participated in the delivery of said boxes...we were recently sent a very neat thank you from a Lt. Colonel including some photos and the flag they had flying over their base for a couple months...very touching. I KNOW hers is not the only store doing this.
How can someone have a call to arms about eradicating our own unemployment problems one paragraph, and then announce boycotting an entire company the next? yeah sure, that makes loads of sense! Does he have any idea of how many jobs would be lost if that were to happen? Of how many have already been lost? How can someone contradict themselves so badly? I don't get it.
You see, I hear this "boycott Starbucks" thing quite a lot around here for varying reasons and it makes absolutely no sense to me. I realise it's currently the "in" thing to do, but all because the coorperation is big and rich doesn't automatically make it evil. Starbucks in fact manages to do a lot of good where it can, which is more than can be said for the tiny little local businesses...yeah, I'm all for supporting the local coffee joints, but I really wish people would bother to educate themselves a bit better before jumping all willy nilly on the bandwagon here.
End of rant...
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