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Fest & Flauschig
Ab hier übernehmen die Pferde
My philosophy is that we don't achieve the orderly state. It is the question whether it is desirable to achieve the orderly state. So the only task of the police can actually only consist of guaranteeing the smooth coexistence of people. Adolf, guaranteed is exaggerated. Tried, tried to regulate and guarantee. It's just a try, it doesn't always work. Exactly, completely right.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
The new CEO, Brian Nickel, since he joined the company last year, has said that he needs to work on the environment of Starbucks stores. He says they need to be inviting, have that coffee shop, you know, cafe environment again.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
And so he's doing little things to enhance that, like bringing back condiment bars so people can doctor their own coffee with milk and Sharpies for people to write on their cups with. But then he's doing bigger things like tightening up a policy that Starbucks has had since 2018 that allowed anyone... to use its cafes and its bathrooms.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
And so the company says, we care about the public, but we care about our customers and our employees, and we have to make our cafe safe and welcoming environments for them. And they hope this will be a way to enhance that.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
Is there some truth in that? I think this is a pretty common policy for retailers that you're supposed to buy something to be in the store. And these cafes are for people who are patrons, not necessarily just hanging out with no purpose, I guess.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
I think critics would say, you know, this is a reversal that Starbucks after that incident in Philadelphia where two black men were arrested at one of their cafes. That was a real embarrassment for Starbucks. And this policy was meant to address that. You know, a lot has changed since they passed that. We've had the pandemic. We've had a lot of changes in society here in America.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
And in some ways, things have gotten more complicated. challenging for a retailer like Starbucks to just allow the public to use the stores as they wish.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
I think that's absolutely true. You looked at the latest homeless count numbers that were released and we're at very large numbers of people who are just unhoused. They don't have a place to go. And some of that is, again, just how society has been uprooted since the pandemic. So, yeah, it does seem to be that there needs to be other places for these folks.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
And Starbucks itself says that, that they do have places. community outreach programmes, and they do try to direct people who need more resources to services. And, you know, their cafes can't just be drop-in centres, that there needs to be other resources for these folks.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
Probably unlikely, because from what I understand, this 2018 policy of access to all was only in North America.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
Correct. Yeah. So that's also a big mandate for this new CEO is that they've had several quarters now of drops in sales and drops in traffic and transactions. And clearly he is there to try to reverse that. And that's going to take a lot of work.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
And this is one part of what he's doing to try to just make people want to go to Starbucks again and hang out and not just order their coffee, flee or just not go anymore.
Global News Podcast
Talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Qatar
I think this is a pretty common policy for retailers that you're supposed to buy something. And these cafes are for people who are patrons, not necessarily just hanging out with no purpose, I guess.
Something Was Wrong
(2/3) WCN Presents: [J.E.] S6 Updates
I just really appreciate you being willing to share it with everybody. And I'm just so sorry for everything you went through. And it's incredibly resilient and brave what you did. Wow, you're so talented at writing and I can't wait for your book. I'm going to be the first person to buy a copy. Thank you again for reading it. It was very moving. Oh, thank you.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Latino Trump Voters SOBBING IN TEARS as Trump BETRAYS THEM
Y'all, we need to come together.
Watch What Crappens
#2713 RHOP S9E17: RHOPooptomac
I think there's just a lot in the news as to why you'd want to avoid airports and airplanes. I get it. I've gotten way more scared of air travel over the last couple of years.