• Bertuccio@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I started boycotting Starbucks when I learned they had partnered with Nestle for store-bought products - their Sumatra and Komodo Dragon coffees were pretty good.

    I send an email every year or so to let them know, since boycotts aren’t effective if the group being boycotted doesn’t know why, with predictably apathetic responses.

    Anyway, if you’re a no-Nestle person then Starbucks is on the list…

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      3 months ago

      Thanks! Did not know about the Nestle connection. We stopped going to Starbucks when it moved to a fast food type experience vs the cafe feel it had at launch here.

      Will be verifying they moved the hell away from Nestle before we consider returning.

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        3 months ago

        Awesome. Unfortunately the agreement was made “in perpetuity” so there’s no obvious route to them leaving Nestle.

        That’s part of why I actually email them, and in the first email I said that I’m bothering to send anything because I do really like their stuff, and I think their other charitible actions mean I can hope they’ll take customer feedback. As opposed to Nestle which I expect to tell me to gfm.

        I’ve steadily leaned away from that belief as the company digs farther in to being every crappy anti-labor chain.