You ENJOY others aggrresive attempts at being bored to tears?

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Have you heard his podcast?

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Starbucks PR machines working overtime today.

well at least someone is working at Starbucks today

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

The location next to my office only has black baristas these days. There used to be a white supervisor, but he disappeared a while back.

So I'm not sure what they're going to talk about other than how much they hate their customers (probably 75% white professionals from the various banks and law firms on this block).

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Randall said it best ... This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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Guessing the homeless don’t drive revenue


Starbucks will close 150 poorly performing company-operated stores next year, about three times as many as it typically closes.
The affected stores are located in mostly urban areas that are densely populated with Starbucks locations.
The company told investors late Tuesday that it expects same-store sales to grow just 1% for the quarter that begins next month, lowering its previous guidance. The stock slumped 3.5% in after-hours trading.

"Our recent performance does not reflect the potential of our exceptional brand and is not acceptable," Starbucks (SBUX) CEO Kevin Johnson said in a statement. "We must move faster to address the more rapidly changing preferences and needs of our customers."
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"In this last quarter, we had an unplanned initiative related to the incident in Philadelphia that culminated in closing stores," Johnson said on a call from the Oppenheimer Consumer Conference on Tuesday afternoon. "It is not an excuse," for the 1% growth rate, he added. Chief Financial Officer Scott Maw said that the closures "had an impact."
Starbucks closed 8,000 stores on the afternoon of May 29 to offer about 175,000 employees mandatory anti-bias training after two black men were arrested at a store in Philadelphia while waiting for a friend. Outgoing chairman Howard Schultz said the training cost Starbucks "tens of millions" of dollars. The training also delayed the launch of Starbucks' spring and summer marketing campaign by about two weeks.
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To help boost sales, Starbucks will develop more healthy drinks, like low-sugar iced tea, for an increasingly health-conscious customer base. The company said that so far in 2018, Frappucino sales have fallen by 3%. Last year, sales of the sugary blended beverage were up 4%, compared to 5% in 2016 and 17% in 2015.
The company is also planning on boosting its digital initiatives and getting more customers to sign up for its app.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Plotting those points would show that the variation is to be expected and more noise than signals. Yet another example of a corporation reacting too soon because of too few data points.

Part of the challenge with the under performing stores is that they can't easily make the physical improvements they want to drive sales. For example, in the rectangle between Madison/Wacker and Jackson/Clark, there are 10 stores. On Adams, there are two tiny stores at Wells and at Clark with virtually no seating, and each of those stores is a block away from another larger store.

Sure, they're going to lose some walk up sales if they close those locations, but the higher value "sit and do a job networking meetup" people who are likely to buy a pastry or a sandwich aren't going into those locations anyway.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Open bathrooms + Diversity training = The need for needle disposal bc of all the crackheads you have to allow in now

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/st ... on-n957176

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