Probably, but still a dumb PR stunt. Why would anybody think serving coffee would boost album or concert ticket sales?

100% this. People actually think that folks track the inner-political bullshit at Starbucks?? The delusion of some people is incredible.

If you don't like Starbuck's agenda, then how about you just stop buying food from there? Oh, but that is a bridge too far for most. Hell, I bet 1/2 the people crying in here have probably bought from Starbucks and ordered from Amazon and given money to other anti-worker companies in the last week.

I'm not sure why that would disqualify him for scab behavior. Also anyone basing this much of their branding around pumpkin spice bullshit should at least be a little aware of the situation with the union.

I always find it nice when people call it boycott rather than canceled

So, thank you

He's a ridiculously successful pop star! His PR team has a PR team! There's at least a handful of people whose sole full time job is to make sure that he doesn't make any mistakes out of ignorance that might make him look bad.

This was on purpose and with all pertinent information available.

Jezebel is part of the original Gawker Media (now "Go Media") network, and is a glorified blog. Hardly a "news outlet".

It's also not even scab behavior. Scabs are people who take shifts at places where unions are on strike. This is a store with no union, so he's not doing union work. It's maybe anti-union, but it's not scab-y.

And while I'm generally pro-union, my experience with unions is they are very, very against non-union members doing union work. So if Ed Sheeran wanted to pick up a shift at a Starbucks for a promo, I can see why he might have had to pick a non-union location. I'd be curious to find out if he asked or what his agents discussed. Doesn't seem likely to me that Sheeran himself said "I want to do manual labor for several hours, make sure it's at a union-busting location."

This whole story seems overblown.

A scabby one, it seems

And his music sounds like the peeling of one.

What's a mall?

Especially the one with him and Camilla Cabello

The other workers were managers.

Where do you get the idea that "he has never worked a normal Job in his life" from?