This follows Seattle's Mamdani-like mayor, Katie Wilson, who called for a boycott of the company to support union agitators, which apparently was a last straw for Starbucks, following the city's 9% wealth tax on those making $1 million; unchecked bums and crime lowering the quality of life; and so many other businesses leaving the city and heading out to places like Tennessee that it would not have been a promising market with growth potential anyway.
Here's what was going on at Starbucks headquarters just five months ago:
So too bad about the Pike's Place heritage and all that. The company, being a business, needed to go someplace where it could actually grow and profit, so now the Mermaid flourishes in the rocky green hills to Tennessee where the local government does not hate, demonize, and curse successful businesses.
The reaction from Wilson to this fiasco was pretty putrid:
"I think the claim that millionaires are gonna leave are state are, like, super overblown, and if, you know, the ones that leave, like byeee... " (giggles)
It's redolent of California political ward boss Lorena Gonzalez, who told Elon Musk who had been threatening to move Tesla to Texas over California's COVID restrictions: "F*** Elon Musk.' to which Musk replied "Message Received" followed by a pullout.
They don't seem to understand what a disaster the company exits are.
For Seattle and its environs, it follows the loss of most of Amazon, which took most of its operations out of Seattle and whose CEO packed up and moved to Florida last month; most of Microsoft, which went back to Redmond; Payscale, which packed out for Boston; Boeing, which ended up in the lobbyist's paradise of Arlington, Virginia; and the 2,000 small fry businesses that closed shop since 2020 in Seattle alone.
As the lefties like to say, this is 'not sustainable.' Yet they keep acting as though it's business as usual, even as their cities decline as a result. Speaking from California with all its cutbacks and budget deficits, things are going to get really bad from this exit. Yet this idiot seems to think this is the way to govern her once-great city, choosing decline and calling it shinola. Too bad they don't pay attention to the city that created that choice word -- Detroit. Yes, decline is a choice
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