BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:24 PM

Starbucks is trying to gain back some lost business owing to high prices (they're restructuring the price stuff) and I think they have lost control of their quality control, hence the training.

I personally could give a shit less but like Shane I will kill to save Tim Horton's. Karen and I are both hooked on Tim's coffee (the local drivethrough calls us by name) and the dog is nuts for Apple Fritters. Most of their menu of food type items is half assed okay but the friggin' coffee is GREAT!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:19 PM

Not being a coffee drinker, I didn't notice. I understand that some folks refer to them as charbucks, because of the charred coffee taste. The four cups of coffee I have ingested over the years to be polite have not won me over.

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: Greg B
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:13 PM

Well, props to Starbucks for being one of the few US employers to even
offer health insurance to their part-timers. In fact, I understand a
number of 'artists' work at Starbucks part-time just to qualify. On
the other hand they've resisted mightily the efforts of the IWW to
unionize them.

As to the closing, it reminded me of an Air Force or Naval Aviation
'stand down' in which after some sort of incident or accident everyone
stops flying for a day of re-education. We did that in the CAF a few
years back after a bunch of guys managed to de-restore a few of our
WW2 era fighters and bombers, some of them getting out of the shallow
end of the gene-pool in the process. I was kind of thinking "what is
that, an espresso machine or a flippin' F/A-18?"

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:13 PM

Furthermore, If I'm gonna spend the kind of money Starbucks wants for a cup of coffee, I want to fuckin' get high from it. For what they want for a Macho Grande Whatever you can buy a hit of blotter acid and lose your mind for eight hours.

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:06 PM

Staff Development for Starbucks employees? Those are reel perfessionals, there.... What, continuing ed credits for crema?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:00 PM

Starbucks? Is he associated with Shatner?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, living in Richmond, Maine, without a Starbucks

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:59 PM

I always thought Starbuck's coffee tasted like it was burnt. I also refuse to adopt their language (not small, medium, large, but large, grande and another word). I just refuse to become trendy. I don't have a Starbucks near me, but there are plenty of Dunkin' Donuts should I ever forget how to make coffee at home.

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:59 PM

No, man. I don't flippin' care. They are a buncha flippin' loosers! NObody that I know ever goes to STrawbucks. I never have. Strawbucks is for retreads and people that wear them little coloured skarfs and drink Lattay! If Tim Hortons closed fer 3 hours, tho, then I would be flippin' worried, eh?

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:58 PM

Viva Starbucks!
Our coffee culture has been much improved by their innovations.

Now I can sip on a bold while shopping in Safeway if I don't have time for a refueling stop. An ideal pairing of two great American institutions.

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:58 PM

I can't even think about Starbucks coffee without getting indigestion. In fact, I think I'll take a Tums right now. Crunch, chomp, smack. Mmmmm.... Orange. My favorite.

Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:48 PM

Ah! Apparently it was only in the US and was a vast teach-in for Starbucks' employees.

I still didn't care.

Subject: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:45 PM

I understand that all the Starbucks everywhere closed for three hours today for some reason or another.

I didn't care -- did you?