@conscious.app: Starbucks is now closing 250 more stores in the US and Canada after a global boycott hurt its sales. On September 24, Starbucks announced it's closing about 250 stores, on top of 627 last year, saying they weren't making enough money and never mentioning the boycott. The boycott started in October 2023, when Starbucks' baristas union posted support for Palestine and Starbucks sued it over its name and logo. The boycott spread across the Middle East and the US. In January 2024, Starbucks said it hurt US sales, and its Middle East operator cut about 2,000 jobs. The announcement doesn't explain why these stores weren't making enough money or whether the boycott damage recovered, so we think the boycott is a big part of it. Starbucks has also fought its workers for years. In 2008, a labor judge ruled it illegally fired three New York baristas for union organizing. Over 700 stores have unionized since 2021, still with no contract. A 2023 Senate report found Starbucks faced more labor cases than any other private employer, and judges ruled it broke the law in most of over 100 cases. Baristas also launched a boycott on August 25 demanding a contract. And somehow, a Brazilian farm reportedly kept Starbucks' ethical sourcing certification after 20 workers were rescued there from slavery-like conditions. Starbucks calls its coffee ethically sourced and is loved by millions, but few people know what it actually does. Some more ethical alternatives to Starbucks are Counter Culture Coffee, Dean's Beans, Onyx Coffee Lab and Equal Exchange. I found all of them through the Conscious Spend app, where you can see how ethical almost any company is, who owns it and much more.

Annapifemmina 🍉🎨✨🦜 :

Can we do the same for McDonald’s and Coca-Cola please 🙏

Purrlitikal :

I haven't stepped foot in a Starbucks for the past several years, not to mention all the poison they put in their s*** and the way they treat their employees

✧ 𝕿𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕳𝖔𝖔𝕶𝖘 ✧ :

Don’t forget to add Adidas to the boycott

Curlyheadgenel :

Why are they boycotting do we know

Sanne w :

Beccabugz :

Dutch bros is better anyway ❤️

🫶🏽 :

Good I make $15.25 bro

꧁༒•𝓡•༒꧂ :

And also if they didn’t make there drinks so expensive.

Colette :

amazing!!! any chance this app will be on android soon?? 🤞

🤷 :

Mooooore

sunshineyday85 :

#hopecore

Heelaxish :

Thanks goodness

Puppy film Maker :

Yay no more Starbucks [Red heart]

Memarthio :

Good to know!!!

Kalpana Mistry :

Love this

Iris :

A Bean 🌈🍉🫒 :

This news made me ridiculously happy. BOYCOTTS WORK! ❤️❤️❤️

MVHPia Free 🇵🇸 :

Still boikotting 🫡

Miss Ellie :

Sorry, not sorry

Leanne :

Plus they now put bad ingredients in their coffee!

iran the warriour :

There's boycott and there's support. We should start support resistance countries.

TrutherSeeker888 :

Hopefully more stores close permanently. thier food is toxic! slow 🐌 poison,that goes unnoticed until its too late. which is why they need to go!

That one stick of butter :

They either unionize or die. That simple

Illusion Nightblood :

Oh nooo how sad anyway I mowed the lawn today