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Starbucks to conservatives: Please come back

MARCH 23, 2017

For years, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has thumbed his nose at conservatives – and it has hurt sales.

Now Schultz is on his way out the door, and the company wants conservatives to come back.

After five straight quarters of decreased sales, Schultz is leaving his post as CEO and will be replaced in April. Additionally, the coffee company wants to make things better with Trump supporters.

Starbucks on Wednesday announced a HUGE expansion of their veteran hiring program, which Fortune Magazine reported is an attempt to make things right with conservatives.

Financial analysts have put at least partial blame for Starbucks lackluster sales growth on Schultz’s outspoken liberal activism – which dates back to the early days of the presidential primary.

Donald Trump called for the first boycott at a campaign rally in November 2015 following the controversy surrounding the coffee maker’s non-denominational holiday cups.

 


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The next day, November 11th 2015, Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) stock opened at 62.55.

It has been downhill ever since.

Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 the stock closed at 55.89, down more than 11%.

Critics say it’s because, instead of focusing on coffee sales, Schultz used his public platform to push his liberal idealism on consumers again and again and again and again – including an outright endorsement of failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillarious Clinton in September 2016.

And customers responded.

According to a YouGov poll, public perception of the Starbucks brand has tanked under Schultz, especially following his controversial statements in January that the company would give preferential hiring treatment to refugees around the world.

Yahoo Finance predicted this crash in consumer sentiment towards the company would ultimately impact the company’s bottom line. Schultz, on the other hand, denied the boycotts would have any effect.

But the numbers hint at a different story.

In January 2016 – around the time of the latest Starbucks boycott, when the CEO vowed to hire 10,000 refugees – the company announced more disappointing sales growth figures, “the company’s fifth consecutive quarter of missed expectations for same-store sales in the U.S., its largest market.” MarketWatch reported. “U.S. sales have slowed repeatedly in recent quarters. Starbucks previously blamed the economy. The company has said it would return to its historic same-store sales growth rate of 5% in the U.S., though it hasn’t said when.”

In other words, since autumn 2015 – around the time Trump first called for a boycott of the coffee chain – sales growth for Starbucks in the U.S. has plummeted.

And every time Schultz weighed into another political controversy, critics say it hurt Starbucks’ brand (and sales) more and more… so much so, the company appears to have felt the pressure of the disappointing performance and has taken action to win back conservative customers.

The coffee maker has been hiring veterans and their spouses around the U.S. at a feverish pace. On Wednesday, the company announced they’d hired more than 10,000 veterans and their spouses – and announced their veteran-hiring program was so successful, they would expand their goal to 25,000.

With Schultz out in April and a robust veteran hiring program, is it time to end the Starbucks boycott?

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1 hour ago, ranger173 said:

Thanks for that whatshername. Just like target, I refuse to step foot into a starbucks. I hope conservatives continue to pass by to get there coffee

Thanks Ranger.  They are feeling the consequences of using their brand, product and anti-American hiring practices to push their political agenda.  That's generally bad for business but these are positive steps taken by Starbucks (it's almost as though an adult is in charge for a change;).  It's a good start anyway.  We'll see... and in the meantime, I say the beatings should continue until morale improves!  :eyebrows:

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