... ask MNers to boycott Starbucks?

[legoballoon]

Personally, I won't be spending any money there again.

When I read the 'we pay our fair share of tax' statement, I almost choked on my (home made) hot chocolate. It's one law for the rich, another for us now is it?!

I think we should support small, UK-based independent coffee shops. Let's support businesses that generate wealth that is shared by local people.

[AKissIsNotAContract]

YANBU. I'm in

[legoballoon]

Go Mumsnet!

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Really I have one, it's very posh. See here.

[MissPricklePants]

YANBU I will add them to my boycott list!

[WorraLiberty]

Am I weird? (rhetorical question so no pushing and shoving at the back!)

I live in a london borough and yet I've never been inside a Starbucks or a Costa in my life

[BestestBrownies]

I already do (boycott that is) as I hate everything the company stands for and they only ever serve lukewarm, ridiculously overpriced drinks. In fact, I don't tend to waste my money on crap coffee when out full-stop.

[BestestBrownies]

oooh, very posh MrsT

[larks35]

YANBU. Quite easy for me as after one over-priced, diluted mud-water I experienced several years ago, I've never been to Starbucks since.

[Bossybritches22]

YANBU.....14 yes FOURTEEN years they've got away with this.

If we each write or email.the CEO it.will have huge impact too.

Go on you nest of vipers do your worst best !!

[PhyllisDoris]

I would boycott, but I've never been in a Starbucks so it wouldn't make much difference! With you in spirit though.

[edam]

Good idea. If enough people stop buying coffee from chains that don't pay their taxes, maybe we'll get some small independent shops opening up that do actually pay UK taxes. Some of them might even serve decent coffee...

[VivaLeBeaver]

I'm in. Love my frappuchinnos but will frequent neros or costa from now on.

[Eurostar]

I already choose independent where possible ever since I read about Starbuck's alleged strategy of moving into new areas where a financial loss is predicted in order to kill off independent competition (they had the financial clout to sustain the losses), which would turn to gains once they had the local market to themselves.

As chains go, Cafe Nero seem to at least do good things for the local community, I wouldn't be surprised though to hear that things are not as they seem.

[dreamingbohemian]

Hear, hear

It's awful coffee anyway

[WorraLiberty]

Oh I'll just have a nice cup of home made tea with PhyllisDoris then

[edam]

(I know lots of companies do this - Amazon for one - but Starbucks could be the poster child for tax-dodging multinational corporations that think they can enjoy a free ride at the expense of ordinary people who have no choice but to pick the slack.)

[expatinscotland]

I haven't been in one in donks, anyway. Over-priced.

[Viviennemary]

Yes I will. But I was looking forward to the gingerbread latte. Still I might get one somewhere else.

[pinkteddy]

Count me in.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Home made tea home made tea home made tea.

[MadgeHarvey]

Starbucks coffee is just brown pisswater anyway - won't be a problem not going there.

[dreamingbohemian]

Shouldn't we all be drinking tea really?

Something about austerity and tea bags seem to go together. Perhaps because you can reuse them? (Note: I do not. Yuck. But I could, I guess.)

[PumpkInDublic]

I'm in.

[storminabuttercup]

I'm in, who wants my gingerbread syrup recipe?

[WorraLiberty]

I have no problem sacrificing my own needs and boycotting a coffee shop I've never been in for the sake of some MN solidarity.

Thank fuck it's coffee and not wine