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Starbucks Closing One Of Its Flagship
Locations As Crime Overtakes Founding City

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Posted By: snakeoil, 1/3/2025 12:47:29 AM

Starbucks is closing one of its stores located near Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, due to an increase in crime. The Seattle-based coffee chain told KOMO News on Tuesday that they are closing the location on the corner of 1st and Pike, across the street from the popular market.

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Went into one of these fancy coffee shops. Had to stand in line and pay for it. But they were giving coffee and even cash to the "homeless."

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 1/3/2025 12:56:37 AM (No. 1865699)
Leftists destroy entire cities with their destructive policies that "there's no such a thing as a bad person".
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Reply 2 - Posted by: NotaBene 1/3/2025 1:11:38 AM (No. 1865702)
Pike Place is the touristic center of downtown Seattle. Go Woke go broke.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 1/3/2025 1:37:17 AM (No. 1865713)
Which means the restroom will no longer be available for use by the homeless addicts, which means...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: commonsence 1/3/2025 2:29:07 AM (No. 1865718)
The crazy of it is, the residents voted for this
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Strike3 1/3/2025 4:44:07 AM (No. 1865737)
Such a shame, now the honest, paying customers will have to walk a few blocks to find a seven-dollar cup of coffee.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: nwcudagal 1/3/2025 7:47:02 AM (No. 1865818)
I was there about 20 years ago. We were waiting outside for our ride back to our motel when the homeless people started coming out of the alley. Very scary.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: FunOne 1/3/2025 8:16:13 AM (No. 1865836)
This is an embarrassment when a Starbucks closes in Seattle, the historic home of that Coffee provider. Where are the brain-dead liberals going to get their daily dose of foul-tasting, overpriced coffee now in Seattle?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Skinnydip 1/3/2025 8:16:27 AM (No. 1865837)
I have no sympathy for Starbucks at all. As one of the most woke corporations in the world, they have no one to blame but themselves.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: padiva 1/3/2025 9:57:41 AM (No. 1865893)
What an elitest attitude! Criminals are people too. /s
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Reply 10 - Posted by: downnout 1/3/2025 10:37:02 AM (No. 1865906)
Karma strikes!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: paral04 1/3/2025 3:22:51 PM (No. 1866103)
Maybe they need to get rid of the people running that city instead of promulgating their "Wokeness".
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