Departing Starbucks CEO Schultz Refuses to Admit Support for Clinton Was a Mistake
‘We feel very strongly that our role in our company … is to demonstrate social impact’
Dec 4, 2016 3:13 PM
By Grabien Staff
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SCHULTZ: "I don't think at any level that the brand or what we represent is at odds with the President-elect or his supporters. 90 million customers a week are going through Starbucks and I assume many of them voted for Donald Trump. We feel very strongly as a company that our role and responsibility, in addition to making money and building shareholder value, as you know, is to demonstrate a level of social impact in the communities that we serve. We as a company, the board, me personally, Kevin, have been deeply concerned about a number of issues, social issues, that for the most part have not been addressed by the Republican administrations in the past and hopefully will be addressed by the President-elect. I think that as we go forward we will have an active voice in demonstrating what I've said before - the moral courage to address things that we think are important to the promise of America and the American dream."