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The revised Starbucks policy suggests a code of conduct for store visitors, who should use the spaces as intended, be considerate of others and act responsibly.
It also directs employees to a procedure for dealing with customers that behave in a "disruptive manner," including guidance on how to approach disruptive customers. Employees who witness a situation that "presents an immediate danger or threat to partner or customer safety" are still instructed to call 911.
Doesn't solve anything really, as this still leaves an opening for store managers to act of their own accord regardless.
Wow, what a really stupid decision just to be politically correct. Wait till the homeless and drug addicts, and there are a lot of them in many cities, make it their prime location to get out of the heat, get out of the cold, use the bathrooms to shoot drugs into their arms leaving needles on the ground.
Who's going to want to stop at Starbucks for coffee when you're standing 10 ft away from someone who hasn't showered in a few weeks? I suppose you can hold your nose and look the other way and pretend they aren't there while they're waiting for a handout from you.
Homeless people have never been the issue with the Starbucks around me. The loitering issue revolves around those who camp out with their laptops all day for the free wifi. But even then, it's hard to resist the intoxicating scent of coffee for long. Eventually, Starbucks will get their money out of everybody who comes through the door.
Homeless are a huge issue around here. They'll use any space possible to do whatever they want to. The local big box store had to get rid of all of their shed displays out front because the homeless were in there having sex and doing drugs. It became not only a nuisance, but a safety issue with used needles left on the ground, urine left in bottles and worse things i won't even talk about.
The local Walmart right by two Starbucks had to change their business hours because the store was plagued with homeless people trying to sleep there at night.
Homeless are a huge issue around here. They'll use any space possible to do whatever they want to. The local big box store had to get rid of all of their shed displays out front because the homeless were in there having sex and doing drugs. It became not only a nuisance, but a safety issue with used needles left on the ground, urine left in bottles and worse things i won't even talk about.
Oh dear, I will never look at Home Depot the same way again.
That's because they know they will be asked to leave and arrested if they don't. Once that threat is gone all bets are off.
There are a couple of homeless men who hang out at my neighborhood Starbucks. One is a veteran, and I sometimes buy him a gift card, so he can get something to eat, although I've been told that the staff takes care of him regardless. To my knowledge, neither has ever been asked to leave.
There are a couple of homeless men who hang out at my neighborhood Starbucks. One is a veteran, and I sometimes buy him a gift card, so he can get something to eat, although I've been told that the staff takes care of him regardless. To my knowledge, neither has ever been asked to leave.
I have sympathy for the homeless but business is business and you can't have a blanket policy of letting anyone hang around. If that is the policy it's going to cause them problems in lot of areas especially cold winter climate with a large population of homeless.
Why thank you. We all know the starbucks bathroom is always the cleanest around.
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