Steve walks warily down the street with his brim pulled way down low

May 23, 2022 6:26 PM

Magnebro

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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/23/starbucks-will-exit-russia-after-15-years-closing-130-licensed-cafes.html

...aight

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The franchisees will rename their cafes “Cylons”

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

4 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

Lol they already exited half my country cause their coffee is shit and no one bought it.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

better late than never

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

*Latte

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Cool now leave the US too

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Cool. But their coffee is still mediocre.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A few people say it is overpriced too.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ain’t no sound but the sound of his feet. Machine guns ready to go. Out of the doorway the bullets rip to the sound of the beat.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fuck Russia.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

More to do with that "less than 1%" bit than anything else; I'm sure. Ruble is worthless, so they don't want them anymore.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If they cared about Ukraine, why did all these companies wait until they couldn't turn rubles to dollars/euros to make these announcements?

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

because the people who will lose out on these products are the russian people not the russian rulers.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

By your logic, they should still be there. This is about corporate greed, with zero regard for the lives that hang in the balance

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You mean the 80% of Russian people that support Putin? The 2/3 Russian people that support the invasion? Then good.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

yes, because those people know the full picture and are making a decision while knowing the full extent of what is happening.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They'll likely write all of it off in their taxes

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

130 cafes? Ok, but that's just one streets worth in Moscow. What about the rest of the country?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How do we get them to pack up their terrible, burnt coffee, and head back to Seattle?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Good for Star Bucks. That will cost them a latte

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

lmao

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Take your +1 and don't let the door hit you in the ass as you leave.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Get ready for TsarBucks!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I worked security in Seattle and the locations Starbucks is where they trained the Russian girls to open the first starbucks over there

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cant believe that was 15 years ago

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wish Starbucks left Canada too

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

That’ll learn them

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why? Are they unionising?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sorry Russia, no more crap coffee for you.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Sounds like they have grounds to leave.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I see what you did there

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I first read that as “in fifteen years”. WTF.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Shit coffee anyway. Being that said.....Nice!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

…ain’t no sound but the sound of his feet, machine guns ready to go…

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Goodbye Starbucks, hello Cosmorubles.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Francly, I think Euro comment is astra-ounding.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And Russia will just open Sovietbucks in its place.

4 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 3

Redstarbucks

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Vladbucks

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

In Soviet Russia .. Vodka is coffee !

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Старибукс

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tsarbucks

4 years ago | Likes 69 Dislikes 0

So damn underrated ??

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Holy shit! Comment of the day!

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Starbucks uses expresso machines that cost 50k each. What is the Russian economy at at the moment?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Red-Starbucks

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

*Sovietrubles

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Serve boiled beet juice, is just as good

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

"Blecch! Ew! Sheesh! I'll take a crab juice."

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

StarRubles

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

what companies are still operating there?

4 years ago | Likes 389 Dislikes 1

I read a while back citi was still there. May have changed though.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Far too many.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Exon, BP, Shell

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Stolichnaya

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 4

USSR export Stolly was made in Ukraine but has been made in Latvia since 2000 as owner Yuri Shefler left Russia when Putin came to power.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Untrue

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Sad. Was my fave vodka.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I once got a bottle in Langkawi for $6. later i watched a Korean man nearly impale himself when a paragliding landing went bad. What a day!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're fine, they've been out of Latvia for ages

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Rusbucks, RusDonalds, Rusxxon, is very like same, tovarisch.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

FoxNews, I'd assume.

4 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

Raytheon, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, those guys.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Wait, these companies operate out of Russia?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fun fact, IAQG has de-certified all aerospace parts manufacturers and auditors in Russia.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Burger king is still open there

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Marks and Spencer.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

nestlé

4 years ago | Likes 164 Dislikes 0

Nestle would have funded Hitler’s extermination of Jews if they thought it could get them cash. ZyklonB™ brought to you by Nestle.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Swedes, zoegas is nestle. Switch.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh yes you would if you cared to look. They are bad, but no worse then most in that sector! But being non USA makes it easy target.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

NeZtle

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Burger King, Baskin-Robbins, Gap, and Dunkin Donuts to name a few. Lego says they are leaving but stores are still open

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Just another reason I don't eat at burger King

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I also watched those guys walk around the mall awkwardly.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fuck BK. I won't ever eat there again if they don't leave.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

IIRC corporate hq ordered to close up, but the local subdivision or whatever refused to.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

AFAIK most BKs work on franchise, so the hq cant do shit, just like with franchise McDs.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

They can stop giving them BK supplies. The stores can stay open, but will be serving knock off shit. It happened to a branch here in Pgh.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Lego has stopped shipments. The stores are russian owned and not controlled by Lego.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Baskin-Robbins always finds out.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I'm impressed how quickly so many companies left russia.

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

I can't wait to see how impressed you are when they try and quietly go back once it's all blown over. Money is money.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

rats fleeing a sinking ship

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

https://www.dontfundwar.com/directory Just for info, I am NOT making a recommendation to donate to this fund.

4 years ago | Likes 290 Dislikes 1

Thank you for this very informative list. Shockingly long with some surprise names.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lot of green, less red but still too much, alsonstill too much yellow.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's not supereasy for all companies to just pull out, some will need to sell assets to not go bankrupt, some need to get things out ½

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Physically, others have complicated production methods and will need to replace parts made in Russia etc. 2/2

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

upvoted for encouraging people to check out charities before donating

4 years ago | Likes 99 Dislikes 0

Honest, it's hard for me to process the information. Can some one dm me info on macdonalds and Starbucks? Pleases and thank yous in advance

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

McDonald's closed everything already. Starbucks said they will close these days.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Great resource

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ooh!! Thanks!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Weirdly enough it kinda makes sense that banking firms are all "digging in" at some point this will be over and the economy will recover.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Dirty rotten scumbags, all of them, but it makes sense.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not trying to justify,but a lot of those companies digging in are pharmaceutical and medical.Could be argued it’s for the good of the people

4 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 3

Thanks i was gonna post this, its inhumane for pharma to pull out, in a lot of cases means civilian deaths

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I have made no judgments on any of the companies, I am simply providing the link. I doubt JnJ could leave anyway, too much invested.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

People need medicine, not the citizen’s fault the govt is a piece of shit.

4 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 1

Totally disagree. The government only get to be a piece of shit because the citizens sit back and let them.

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 33

It's easy to say they sit back from the comfort of your own home, with most likely a relatively lax police force that won't just on a 1/

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

so let's deny 100% of the citizens their medicine ignoring the fact that the opposition gets killed or poisoned in that country...

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 3

The implication that the citizens of Russia have any ability to remove Putin from power is hilarious.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

I agree that the Russian government is the problem and responsibility of their people. But the suffering you seek to inflict is unacceptable

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Your view is based on the false assumption they have free elections.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

I also noticed cloudflare. Do they provide a VPN or similar service?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They provide DDOS protection for websites. Basically they mitigate DDOS methods and provide server power to outpower them.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A DDOS(Direct Denial of Service) attack is when a hacker sends so many requests(I.E login attempts) that it blocks legitimate users.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sounds like something someone making a recommendation to donate to this fund would say...

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have not looked into this charity at all and can make no judgments on if they are a good one or not. Just use it as a resource.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Awful lot of red in that ledger.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That list is huge. was scrolling forever thinking I got to be almost at the end. Nope, 1/3 from top

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeh, there are a lot of companies in Russia from outside the country.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0