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lilsubl -> RE: Do You Think Starbucks Employees Look Down on... (6/22/2007 8:08:55 AM)
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol
Starbucks is one of the most evil companies today. They're at least as evil as Mickey D's because:
- they contribute to the great disfigurement of our environment with their ugly shopfronts and corporate iconography;
- they serve complete and utter crap to beliguered customers - and they charge a fortune for the shit they make;
- they go and build shops in areas where they know they will make a loss, purely with the purpose of closing down the already-established local businesses, so that they may reap their customers after they went down (this happened in Geneva - Suisse - in 2005: all of sudden, THREE Starbucks, no less, opened within the city. I'm talking intra-muros here, not the outskirts);
- Mickey D's employ subhuman ill-educated epsilon minus semi-morons; Starbucks hire genius staff with at least a college degree and a sense of style.
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when i lived in San Francisco, there were three local coffee chains: Peet's, Spinelli's & Pasqua. Starbuck's set out to destroy Spinelli's & they did this by finding a location on the same block as each Spinelli's & offering the landlord of said location 3 times the going rent, opening the Starbuck's & with their marketing & product placements in movies, tv shows & magazines, drew in enough customers to run Spinelli's out of business. In this instance, however, they were somewhat foiled by a rival Seattle company, Tully's--who, btw, have great coffee & real espresso--who bought out the Spinelli's & thrived & became actual competition for Starbuck's.
Starbuck's no longer makes real espresso, they have a machine into which the "barista" pours whole beans, then pushes a button & the machine grinds the beans in a measured amount & the "espresso" flows out the spigot into a cup. if you've ever had the espresso made by hand, you would never frequent Starbuck's. i don't frequent them or buy their products because i disagree with their business practices, the lack of customer service-oriented employees & their poorly made, over-priced products.
thank you for allowing me to rant on your thread, Popeye & i will now return it to you...
ps: i did get the joke & found it rather funny
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