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March 10, 2010

Guns and retail: No-win issue for business

  • It's frightful territory. Businesses like Starbucks risk alienating customers and losing sales by taking sides on emotional debates.
    • By EMILY FREDRIX and GREG BLUESTEIN
    Associated Press Writers

    NEW YORK — Guns. Religion. Abortion. These are the no-win arguments that spoil family gatherings — and the stuff of retailers' nightmares.

    Starbucks has found itself in the middle of just such an argument as its stores became forums for demonstrations by both pro-gun and gun-control advocates. All for a firearm policy that hasn't changed and is the same as most retailers': follow the local law. If it's legal to carry a firearm in town, it's allowed in the stores.


     
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