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So apparently Starbucks have ‘partnered’ with mermaids

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Kenworthington · 29/01/2020 13:57

So the manager of my local one told me today. She looked aghast when I said I didn’t agree with it then as I started explaining, she had to take a drive through order. We had been chatting about my eldest ds being gay and she obv thought I’d approve of this collaboration. Hah. . I’m thinking of writing down where I stand on it and passing it to her. I take my elderly mum in there every day for a coffee and pastry. Not any more. Sigh. I hate thats it’s made me ‘that’ person

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AnneElliott · 31/01/2020 12:58

I boycott them anyway due to their non payment of tax in the UK. They got very fed up too with lots of people that work in my government department giving their name as 'tax paying British citizen' when they went for a coffee.

The toilet comment is amazing. I may well borrow that.

misscockerspaniel · 31/01/2020 12:47

Yes, it's on their twitter a/c

twitter.com/starbucksuk

Needmoresleep · 31/01/2020 12:46

Ah and yes the Ben Hunte story is up on Starbucks UK twitter. No comments yet....

Needmoresleep · 31/01/2020 12:45

And let's all be "that woman"

Needmoresleep · 31/01/2020 12:44

Costa pay taxes....as do local coffee shops.

HandsOffMyLangCleg · 31/01/2020 12:43

Does Ben really care about equality when it comes to the 'L' I wonder?

When asked on Twitter to comment on the attack on lesbian Julie Bindel by 'TownTattle' Ben said nothing.

But a cookie? Is that a woke cookie?

jadefinch · 31/01/2020 12:35

The BBC's LGBT correspondent, Ben Hunte, has confirmed this is true. And is happy to promote Starbucks now they're selling a 'trans cookie' with some of the profits going to Mermaids, but he's never once mentioned that a teenager committed suicide following illegal 'treatment' from Mermaids doctor Helen Webberley

So apparently Starbucks have ‘partnered’ with mermaids
So apparently Starbucks have ‘partnered’ with mermaids
So apparently Starbucks have ‘partnered’ with mermaids
AutumnRose1 · 31/01/2020 10:41

be that person OP! We need those people desperately.

I'm no use as I don't buy outside coffee but I would boycott them if I could!

EverardDigby · 31/01/2020 10:34

They are also launching an ad this weekend where a transgender teen is trying out their new name

Surely lots of possiblities for this to backfire given how appalling Starbucks are at getting names right....

I only really go in them when travelling, so my few coffees a month won't be hard to give up.

Doyoumind · 31/01/2020 09:59

I've just read that Starbucks are indeed partnering with Mermaids. They are aiming to raise £100k through sales of special cookies. They are also launching an ad this weekend where a transgender teen is trying out their new name.

WeetabixBananaHipsterFFS · 29/01/2020 20:45

Their coffee tastes like burning tyres.

Coyoacan · 29/01/2020 17:57

This is the Starbucks that claims never to have made a profit in the UK because it buys its coffee from itself at twenty million times the global market price?

Yeap, I never buy there myself, but this might motivate me to be a bit more annoying with my friends and family that do buy there.

Redshoeblueshoe · 29/01/2020 16:59

Babdoc I'm stealing that

jamrollyolly · 29/01/2020 16:57

Babcock- your daughter is Ace!

SunsetBeetch · 29/01/2020 16:54

I don't buy their sorry excuse for coffee anyway.

MermaidUnicorn · 29/01/2020 16:50

Sounds like perhaps SB have got Mermaids as (a) charity of the year this year (charities can apply to be selected by corporate organisations). Often there's a shortlist of charities that customers/staff then vote on and an overall winner is chosen. If this is the case, then I think a few (thousand) emails explaining exactly what Mermaids have got up to is in order..

BillyCotton · 29/01/2020 16:41

I love your daughter BabdocGrin

Babdoc · 29/01/2020 16:36

I rather like my DD’s approach to Starbucks. She never buys their coffee on principle, as she objects to their tax evasion, but she goes into their shops purely to use the toilet at their expense.
When the staff sometimes shout across to ask if she’s actually a customer, DD shouts back “No, but unlike you I pay my taxes, so I’m getting my money’s worth!”

PrinkingPreening · 29/01/2020 16:33

Haha yes stillathing I'm with you there!

Joisanofthedales · 29/01/2020 16:21

scapaflo I had no idea that Starbucks did that on 9/11. Disgusting. That and a possible link to mermaids mean here is another business that has lost my custom. Thank God there are a lot of great independent coffee shops in the town where I live so I won't go short on good coffee.

HandsOffMyLangCleg · 29/01/2020 15:27

The only mermaid I can see reference to at the moment is the one on the logo.

But nothing would surprise me with such a collaboration/transaction.

Green has access to decision makers up and down the country.

BritneyPeedOnALadybug · 29/01/2020 15:15

I think either you or her have got the wrong end of the stick. There’s nothing online about this at all and even if it is true and it’s not public knowledge (yet) then the manager shouldn’t be telling customers about it anyway.

stillathing · 29/01/2020 15:06

I'd love to boycott them but I already do because their coffee is rank.

ScapaFlo · 29/01/2020 15:02

The charging of emergency workers for water while they were dealing with 9/11 has made me avoid Starbucks for 18+ years already. Don't need another excuse.