Starbucks Bleeds RED

Starbucks just made a really stupid PR move.  They’ve decided to sponsor Product (RED), which in turn donates to The Global Fund to fight HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.

Sounds great, right?

Except that Starbucks will only give 5¢ for every beverage you buy, and only at participating US and Canada locations, AND this excludes ready-to-drink beverages and Ethos® Water.

Real generous, Starbucks.

They even paid Facebook to give them preferential visibility on the right sidebar:

Facebook users, predictably, provided some great responses. Here are some of the more than 32,000 so far:

Lee Longfellow (PNCA):
YOU PAY STARBUCKS 3 DOLLARS
STARBUCKS PAYS THIRD WORLD FARMERS TWO CENTS
STARBUCKS DONATES 5 CENTS TO CORPORATE CHARITY…
CONGRATULATIONS,
YOU’RE STILL A TOOL.

Quinn Erickson (Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN):
oh yes, make her feel good about buying a six dollar fucking beverage.
people, you cal live without six dollar beverages. how about instead of buying rip off shit you make a 30¢ cup of jo at home and donate the remaining $5.70? that will make a much bigger difference. nice try star**cks.

John Wilde (Atlanta, GA):
NAZI CORP. 5 cents of a 5 dollar coffee.. nice donation.

Sarabeth Benjamin Neumann (Fossil Ridge High School):
Personally, I am not interested in attending World AIDS Day. I do not want aids in my coffee.

Christopher Morgan (Bridgeport / Stamford, CT):
AIDS is engineered as a ‘soft kill’ bio weapon that targets ‘black’ people. If you want to help save lives in Africa, take a stand against the global elite that have engineered this.

Lillian Martin (Myrtle Beach, SC):
what 5 cents????? f*** starbucks!!!

Cameron Newland (Seattle):
WOW! FIVE WHOLE F***ING CENTS! THANK YOU STARBUCKS YOU HAVE SINGLEHANDEDLY CURED AIDS WITH YOUR MAMMOTH GENEROSITY! HOLY FU** BATMAN!!

Sara Phillips (Rutgers):
They charge $5-7 per drink… you think they could spare more than a nickel.

Jonathan Yen (Michigan State University):
5 cents outta $3 dollar profit, that’s awesome.

Robert Hancock (MidAmerica Nazarene):
Starbucks is fail

Judd Furlong (Des Moines, IA):
Starbucks does blow balls.

Ryan Reed (Seattle, WA):
You guys gave out free drinks for voting… aids < voting?

Rick Marr:
your mom has aids.

Brian Rubinow (Loyola Marymount):
The so-called “AIDS epidemic” is a scam set up by the liberal media. DON’T BUY INTO THE LIES. VOTE RON PAUL.

Hieu Nguyen (JMU):
where did starbucks get all this money to donate 1% of each drink to a relief effort?!?!?

F Cole Anderson (University of Alaska Fairbanks):
the only way to even begin to cure AIDS is to completely clear Africa

Rashied Amini (Washington University in St. Louis):
Great, I’ll pay for an overpriced cup of coffee so I can take some smug satisfaction that I marginally improved someone’s life whom I’ll soon forget about!

Anthony Reid (Arkansas Little Rock):
5¢, oh you guys are just too generous. Cheap C*nts.

Emily Anna Rose Lynch (Bend, OR):
i hate you, starbucks.

Drew Jones (CSCC):
f*** this idea

Kevin Yazdi (Saddleback):
i hope starbucks gets aids.

Mark Baker (New Orleans, LA):
WTF? You sure Starf*cks can afford it???

Alex Khan (Baylor):
wow! 5 cents of my 6 dollar beverage goes to aids. way to go all out guys!!!!!

Drew Jones (CSCC):
my seed is going to bust all over the owners face

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