BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Les from Hull
Date: 19 May 08 - 10:20 AM

I would never go into any of these multinational megacorps outlets if there is any choice. I would much prefer a small, local concern.

Anyway Rene Magritte had a different view click 'ere

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 19 May 08 - 10:59 AM

Perhaps they should read this article. Scroll down far enough and you see the mermaid holding a comb and mirror - she's been on the ceiling of an abbey for the last 600 years.

Interesting, but way off when it comes to Sheela na Gigs! See The Sheela na Gig Project for a more enlightened overview...

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 19 May 08 - 11:00 AM

The Sheela na Gig Project

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: meself
Date: 19 May 08 - 11:40 AM

Re: the Sheela na Gig Project: "quasi-erotic"? Even "quasi" is a bit of a stretch, isn't it? I've seen some unlikely images on the internet that apparently have erotic appeal for somebody, but this takes the cake ... !

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Ernest
Date: 19 May 08 - 01:55 PM

The really improtant question is:

Does their coffee taste like fish???????

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: open mike
Date: 19 May 08 - 10:59 PM

These Resistance folks sure caused a lot more people to checkout
that image..do you suppose they are getting a commission?

It is like the Christian ministry giving life to satan by keeping
his name alive and mentioning him often. Whose side are they on,
any way?

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 May 08 - 11:11 PM

It's like a barking dog, they just can't help themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 May 08 - 05:59 AM

Ah, but those Sheil na gigs are on the OUTSIDE of religious buildings where they put the gargoyles - that mermaid in Sherborne is on the inside and is very well endowed... albeit with a 42 long instead of a 38D.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: The Vulgar Boatman
Date: 20 May 08 - 04:49 PM

And what, pray, is an "anatomically correct mermaid"? Talking of which, why is there so much power in the hands of a bunch of duckwits who deny the fossil record anyway.
There appear to be some who still believe it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 20 May 08 - 05:09 PM

I say Boycott until they move her damn hair out of the way!

Why should they bow to the pressure of the so called "moral majority"?

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: EBarnacle
Date: 20 May 08 - 06:36 PM

Micca, the complete quote is:

One man's meat is another man's poison,
My favorite car is an Avions Voison.
Ogden Nash

The whole tempest is further evidence that there is no bad publicity.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Kim C
Date: 21 May 08 - 10:38 AM

I don't think the new logo is obscene as much as it is just plain ugly.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: GUEST,VO
Date: 21 May 08 - 03:28 PM

I agree. But it's as good an excuse as any for me to boycott them anyways: I've always hated their coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Kim C
Date: 21 May 08 - 03:46 PM

Technically speaking, if Starbucks is named after Starbuck from Moby Dick, then maybe the logo should be a whale. Just a thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: open mike
Date: 21 May 08 - 04:51 PM

if you want whales with you coffee get this one'
http://store.thanksgivingcoffee.com/product_info?products_id=118

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: GUEST,MeepTheSheep
Date: 21 May 08 - 10:19 PM

That's a Melusine! They are a type of siren and are different to your common or garden mermaid because of those two tails they seem to have.
http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefsmelusine.htm

I like the picture at the bottom of the article ... so that's how Starbucks get their coffee, is it?

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 May 08 - 11:57 PM

The latté, perhaps.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 09:19 PM

Apparently the new logo wasn't enough:

Starbucks to close 600 stores in the U.S.

Company greatly increases plans for store closures amid weak economy
By Allison Linn
Senior writer
updated 5:29 p.m. CT, Tues., July. 1, 2008

The old joke that there's a Starbucks on every corner may soon not ring quite as true.

Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday that it has drastically increased the number of stores it plans to close and could eliminate as many as 12,000 full- and part-time positions as a result.

The company said it now plans to close 600 company-operated stores in the United States, up from its previous plans to close 100 stores.
Starbucks also said it will open fewer than 200 stores in its coming fiscal year, which begins Sept. 29. That's down from a previous target of opening 250 stores during that period.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said the job cuts represent about 7 percent of Starbucks' global workforce. Still, Starbucks said it expects many workers to find jobs in nearby stores.

The Seattle-based gourmet coffee retailer said in a conference call with analysts that the stores it decided to close were not profitable and that many had opened in the last few years. In addition, Chief Financial Officer Pete Bocian said the vast majority were located close to another Starbucks store.

The closures will account for 8 percent of all company-operated U.S. stores, and will leave the company with about 6,600 U.S. outlets, Bocian said. He said the stores closings will begin in late July and are expected to happen over a period of months.

There are currently more than 16,000 Starbucks stores worldwide.

/quote: more at the link

John

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 09:36 PM

"There are currently more than 16,000 Starbucks stores worldwide."

I think there are about 12 in the CBD of Brisbane - Oz...

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 11:26 PM

There are two Starbucks in Pensacola, Florida so close together that you can stand in the parking lot of either and plainly see the sign for the other. Somehow, the term "oversaturation" comes to mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Bert
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 11:56 PM

I don't by Starbucks because it is the worst coffee that I have ever tasted. And that includes the time I was driving throught the night to Alabama and stopped at a filling station around two in the moirning. I went in and filled a cup of coffee and the woman said "do you ant me to make you a fresh pot, that has been stewing for hours. I said no, that is just what I need right now." It was Baaaad bud not nearly as bad as the one and only cup of fresh Starbucks I have ever had.


Don, you say...(which ought to be obvious to anyone who isn't totally obsessed with sex).

I ask - Is there such a person??? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 03:27 AM

Sounds fishy, all right.

Terrible coffee, but delicious cinnamints, which they don't sell on this side of the Atlantic, the nasty people.

It's really kind of those Christians to give us a much-needed laugh in these gloomy and recessionary times.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 07:56 AM

I do avoid Starbucks. But it has more to do with individuality. I am not a number.

an iffy cup of coffee in an establishment that reflects the owner is preferrable to a corporate formula. And the taste is more to my liking - but I only have one or two samples to compare.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 08:53 AM

Man oh man! When I first saw that new logo I right away wanted to go out and screw a fish.

Some people have too much time on their hands and too much sex on their minds....

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 09:47 AM

Remember the couple in 'A Mighty Wind' who both worked in Starbuck--across the street from one another?

It really is a sort of joke. They're as ubiquitous as MickeyD's and way more expensive. No, I don't pay that much for coffee. I buy Peet's, which is expensive but still work out to less than $1 per cup.

Starbuck's could stand to scale down a bit.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: irishenglish
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 09:53 AM

I think that is literally about to happen Jeri.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: irishenglish
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:00 AM

By that I mean that they just announced a downsizing and a closing of 600 stores.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:48 AM

Yep, I got that from the message from JohnInKansas that revived this two-month old thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: irishenglish
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:51 AM

Shoot, my bad-didn't scroll up far enough. Said Gilda Radner-Never mind!

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: EBarnacle
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 11:21 AM

I currently go to my local Borders book store to read books and converse with friends as well as holding business meetings.

Borders will soon be taken over by Barnes and Noble, which has Starbucks as their inhouse cafe. One characteristic of Starbucks is that, as long as you have a Starbucks card with $5 on it, you have free wireless access.

A $2 extra large cup of tea for those benefits seems fair to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 06:36 AM

I was chatting to a guy fom just near bangalore recently about the price of a cup of tea in the UK.

He works in the tea Kiosk at Leicester railway station where you can buy a regular tea for the princely sum of £1.80.

In India you can buy a cup of chai for 2 rupees from a station vendor.

There are 80 rupees to a pound.

So a cup of tea in a uk station is about 144 rupees.

Many Indian agricultural workers earn about 50 or 60 rupees a day.


The campaign against the mermaid is as offensive if not more so than starbucks prices.

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 02:37 PM

Starbucks prices are far more obscene than their logo. Gasp!!..A cartoon, too revealing????...you guys are really whacked!

Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Starbucks for Obscene New Logo
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 03:36 PM

Nobody got my 'scale down' pun. It was pretty lame though.

I didn't know about the the wireless.