{"id":1747870,"date":"2022-11-22T09:33:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747870"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:04:07","slug":"starbucks-closes-another-seattle-store-due-to-safety-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/starbucks-closes-another-seattle-store-due-to-safety-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Closes Another Seattle Store Due to Safety Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstarbucks-closes-another-seattle-store-due-to-safety-issues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747870&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_Untitled_design_-_2022-11-21T224959.786.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>                Starbucks told workers at yet another Seattle store that they will be closing the location after being unable to address safety concerns at the location. The store at Broadway East and Denny Way will cease operation by December 11.<\/p>\n<p>Starbucks spokesperson Andrew Trull <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/starbucks\/starbucks-closes-second-capitol-hill-store-citing-safety-concerns\/\">said<\/a>, \u201cUnfortunately, despite several mitigating efforts, safety and security incidents at our Broadway and Denny store have continued to escalate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The store is located near the former Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, the occupation of 6 blocks of the city by BLM and Antifa during the riots that rocked the city in the summer of 2020. Starbucks stores were a favorite target of rioters.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the coffee giant <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/starbucks-closing-16-stores-in-democrat-cities-over-safety-concerns\">announced<\/a> that it was closing 16 stores in the US in response to spiking crime including assault, drug use, and theft. Five of the locations were in Seattle. The latest closure is the second in Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Starbucks employees have previously told said<em>\u00a0<\/em>that they have to deal with customers &#8220;doing drugs in bathrooms&#8221; and regularly have to clean up drug paraphernalia and needle debris.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, &#8220;the homeless wander in off the streets and harass employees and customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Post Millennial obtained <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/exclusive-starbucks-ceo-explains-why-theyre-closing-stores-in-bidens-crime-ridden-america\">footage<\/a> from an internal meeting of the company during which CEP Howard Schultz explained in detail why so many locations have had to shut their doors.<\/p>\n<p>Schultz said that many parts of the country have become &#8220;unsafe,&#8221; causing the company to close stores that, he says, &#8220;are not unprofitable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>He explained that the decision was made following nearly sixty &#8220;co-creation sessions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In all of those sessions,&#8221; Schultz added, &#8220;it has shocked me that the primary concerns that our retail partners have is their own personal safety.&#8221; He cited the issues of mental health, homelessness, and crime, lamenting &#8220;what happens in our bathrooms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In June, Schultz said the coffee company was considering <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/starbucks-considering-closing-bathrooms-to-non-paying-customers-due-to-safety-issues#:~:text=Starbucks%20employees%20told%20The%20Post%20Millennial%20that%20they,off%20the%20streets%20and%20harass%20employees%20and%20customers.%22\">closing their bathrooms<\/a> once again to non-customers, reversing a\u00a0policy the coffee giant instituted in 2018. &#8220;Mental health problems&#8221; were cited by Schultz as having created threats to staff and customers and interfered with the company\u2019s employees\u2019 ability to manage stores.<\/p>\n<p>In October, former Republican Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley released an ad during which she stood in front of one of\u00a0the shuttered Seattle locations. The remnants of the closed store\u2019s Starbucks sign are barely visible amid graffiti and vandalism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Starbucks sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/starbucks-and-seattle-times-send-legal-threats-to-republican-senate-candidate-after-she-exposes-high-crime-rates-in-city\">certified\u00a0letter<\/a>\u00a0to the campaign claiming that Smiley appropriated its intellectual property and complaining the ad might \u201ccreate an unfounded association in the minds of consumers between Starbucks and your campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coffee giant demanded the campaign pull the ad or change it to remove the barely visible and backward sign and a Seattle Times headline in the ad referencing the closures.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the campaign suggested the coffee giant spend its vast resources focusing on its own problems, such as recent problems with unions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rampant crime near the stores, Starbucks Workers United claimed that the closure of the store is a form of retaliation for the workers unionizing. \u201cThe Broadway and Denny location was the first store to unionize in Seattle, and one of the first locations to organize in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week workers at the Broadway and Denny store walked out during the \u201cRed Cup Rebellion,\u201d\u00a0 on Red Cup Day, an annual event during which customers can buy reusable red cups at Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/safeatlast.co\/crime-rates\/seattle-crime-rate\/\">Safe At Last<\/a>, the Capitol Hill neighborhood in 2020 had a 241 percent higher crime rate than the US and a 46 percent higher rate than the city\u2019s average. The neighborhood\u2019s violent crime rate was 128 percent higher than the US average and according to the data, \u201cyou would have one in 13 chances of being a victim of any crime if you lived in this neighborhood. This indicates Capitol Hill is one of the least safe places around Seattle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The situation has not improved in the area since the deadly occupation. Just this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitolhillseattle.com\/archive\/crime\/\">past weekend<\/a>, there was an armed robbery attempt at a 7-Eleven, a shooting victim was dropped off at the Swedish Hospital emergency room, a business suffered a shattered window, and multiple 911 callers reported at least 15 shots fired at 11th and Union early Sunday. The previous weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolhillseattle.com\/2022\/11\/no-injuries-after-gunfire-reported-outside-12th-ave-nightlife-venues\/\">shots were fired<\/a>\u00a0outside bars on 12th Ave.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks told workers at yet another Seattle store that they will be closing the location after being unable to address safety concerns at the location. 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