The Customers Can Go Fuck Themselves

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Any food that doesn’t get sold at the end of the day has to be thrown out.  It doesn’t matter if it’s still in the unopened wrapper, it has to be thrown out.  If we take any of it home, any of what has now become garbage, it’s considered stealing from the store.  We can’t give any of it away to the homeless either, because the food is considered expired, despite the fact that it all stays fresh well past the required two-day expiration date.

Because not only are they wasting food, they are taking food out of peoples mouths who needed it.

 A lot of those people being the very people that starbucks employs, because even at a higher than minimum wage most places do not pay a living wage, many food service workers subsist on the food they serve to make ends meed each month.

 On top of taking that food they are branding these people who are mostly trying to feed themselves, friends and family thieves. They are terminating people for “acts of theft” for food that is unfit to sell. Which not only takes money out of their pockets ( a still not livable wage even if they boast a higher than minimum one) but they are also blacklisting people from getting hired elsewhere.

And even when the food was not going to starbucks staff often times would be handed out by us or others to homeless people, or collected by churches and shelters.

Starbucks is not gaining any money through this policy, this policy does not benefit the customer. They are literally punishing us for being hungry and not paying for the food that many of us could not afford otherwise.

Mail

Starbucks Customer Service PO Box 6363 Dover, DE 19905-6363

Phone

800-Starbuc (800-782-7282) Mon – Fri 5 AM – 8 PM (PST) Sat – Sun 6 AM – 4 PM (PST)

MSG

http://customerservice.starbucks.com/app/contact/ask_retail_stores/