divyaFor everyone who drinks Philz coffee in Bay Area, please note
spiegelmama@divya Well, that does it for me! Thanks for the bummer news, Divya. /gen
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Caroline Kinlund
Roknrol like the slur
Varx@alice @divya @caroline And even putting on my "soulless capitalist" hat for a second .... who removes a pride flag from the SF location? And not just San Francisco, but in the Castro District? Talk about not understanding your customers!
This is one of those decisions that is so utterly stupid it makes no sense from any perspective.
Paco Hope@divya The cause of this, like so many businesses before it, is buried 8 paragraphs deep:
Philz…was sold to Los Angeles-based private equity firm Freeman Spogli for $145 million in August of last year.
Private equity are a cancer. Everything they touch dies.
@spiegelmama @divya Nothing is sacred. They’re doing dentists, funeral homes, you name it. Buy it up, tear it apart, let it fail. Lather, rinse, repeat. Red Lobster and Toys R Us are other classic examples.
youknowthatonepersonwithaface@spiegelmama @paco @divya and same folks who bought the newspapers are "flipping" the Greyhound stations (literally, same folks who destroyed my local paper bought up and sold the local Greyhound station). Buses suck but at least you used to be able to sit out of the weather and have a restroom to use, now last time I got a bus there, I had to wait 6 hours under an awning in below freezing with no bench and no restroom cause the gas station nearby closed at 10 pm.
George B
Andrew (Television Executive)That is terrible. I would ask "how is that even allowed" but I suspect the answer is "it's not but who's gonna stop them"
samiamsam
Hubert Figuière@divya owned by pirate equity. No need to say anything else.
Paul_IPv6
B'ad Samurai 🐐🇺🇦@divya so the only thing in the Castro pride-less will be Philz. From the brilliant minds of PE.
Pia Herself 
@divya Nothing says inclusive like excluding a group. plus possibly sending the message that they're okay with a swastika flag instead.
Ianto Jones@divya lol because this was obviously a great plan in a San Fran coffee establishment. My gods these people are stupid.
Dr. Sundancer@divya A family member of mine has an acute sense of taste. He stopped going to Phillz last fall because the coffee taste changed. None of us knew that Phillz's owner changed. I thought he was being dramatic for attention, but now I'm starting to think he could have been correct.
instantiatethis@divya noooooooooo I don't even live there anymore but this makes me so sad
Justin
Coach Pāṇini ®Creepy weirdos are terrible at reading the room, so bad, that if they make anyone in the room feel uncomfortable, then the room itself must change.
Wendroid 🇺🇦@divya Never went, never will. Still occasionally stop at my local Peets.
Jocelynephiliac 
@divya @quephird
> “We are working toward creating a more consistent, inclusive experience across all our stores, including removing a variety of flags and other decor. This is a change in how our stores look, not in who we are,” Sadarangani said in the statement.
That word, inclusive. It's telling a WHOLE LOT.
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