Starbucks CEO defends equal marriage backing and tells unhappy shareholder to sell stock
At the meeting yesterday a shareholder questioned the profitability of Starbucks’ marriage equality stance by bringing up a boycott being levied against the coffee company by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a group adamantly opposed to equal marriage rights.
The shareholder referred to NOM’s boycott, and said: “In the first full quarter after this boycott was announced, our sales and our earrings—shall we say politely—were a bit disappointing.”
CEO Howard Schultz replied that “not every decision is an economic decision,” and went on to suggest that if shareholders thought their return was not strong enough in the face of opposition for supporting such issues, they could sell their shares.
Mr Schultz said: “If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38% you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares of Starbucks and buy shares in another company.”
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/03/22/starbucks-ceo-defends-equal-marriage-backing-and-tells-unhappy-shareholder-to-sell-stock/
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Not a Starbucks fan really, but now I may go get something if I'm hungry sometime.
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I'm lactose intolerant. 
That said, I drink a LOT of coffee (so does my family) and I buy exclusively Starbucks brand ground coffee in the grocery store. My favorite is "Dark Expresso Roast (bold and caramelly - tastes just like Dutch coffee which I LOVE 
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obsessive compulsive about my favorite French Roast.
I'll have to try the Dark Espresso Roast because of the word you used ... "caramelly" got my attention! 
our sales and our earrings
Why are they worrying about their earrings?
