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Starbucks or Bust
By newsguy | July 21, 2008
They’re everywhere they’re everywhere. Wowzers even on the web starbucks rapes my senses with their massive amounts of green and brown. Now make no mistake I love my starbucks coffee but even I have my limit. Where I live a starbucks has found a way to spring up right across the street from another. In all fairness to them it’s a drive through as opposed to one where people have to take the time to get out of their climate controlled comfort zone and actually wait in a line with people around them. I hate it so much that they are that close even more though I hate that I broke down and ordered from that particular starbucks.
Starbucks has some great things to offer mind you I mean my five dollar and thirty-five cent grande jave chip with a dopio espresso is delicious, and the environment they make is nice and is one of the real reasons that you pay such a high price for your drinks. I am just worried that they are going to expand even more and start taking business from other places then coffee houses. Already they are selling the vivanno a healthy juice drink, and I supposed that I should be happy about the healthy alternative, but I find myself worried for my local smoothie shops should they decide to pursue it further.
My local coffee shop has a bit of an edge on our starbucks since it incorporates the local art and music scene bringing in customers with art openings and shows with local musicians. The environment is so much nicer than starbucks since it has this whole family feel to it I mean I have friends that have played there and I have gone to art openings where I ran into one of my favorite artists whose work I saw when I was in southern France. Starbucks is trying to corner the music scene now with the new stores that let you burn cds and build playlists of local artists. It is great but I am worried for the local buisness.
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