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Sunday, September 2, 2001
When I first set foot into the Dominick's near my apartment, I looked to my left and saw a Starbucks. There were only about four tables or so, and it was clear that this was an abbreviated Starbucks... but it was still Starbucks. In the downtown area of my suburb, too, there's a Starbucks smack dab in the middle. It's highly visible. Well, we had a new Jewel open up and guess what coffee shop is inside? That's right, it's Starbucks! Now both Jewel and Dominick's have Starbucks inside. A few weeks ago, upon visiting the home decor store The Great Indoors, what was there? Yep, a Starbucks! And the shopping carts had cupholders up front (unlike Jewel and Dominick's - the cupholders are right by the handlebars at those grocery stores.) The question is, what's the deal with Starbucks being the de facto beverage stop? I'm certainly not one to turn down a tasty beverage. But do we really need Starbucks at Jewel? When I go to the grocery store, I really just want to get in and out as soon as possible; I rarely browse. I'm guessing that Starbucks is an attempt to get people like me to stick around. Here's how to make it work: give the coffee away for free. Then I'll think about it. -pm Comments
FROM: Ryan
DATE: Sunday September 2, 2001 -- 3:47:08PM I want to go to Starbucks University. FROM: Robert DATE: Sunday September 2, 2001 -- 4:09:38PM It's a pale attempt to be like all of the McDonald's in Wal-Marts. FROM: Matt DATE: Monday September 3, 2001 -- 2:08:12AM Paul, FROM: Paul DATE: Monday September 3, 2001 -- 9:51:49AM I find coffee to be a tasty beverage, Matt. Starbucks is designed to be a tasty beverage from the get-go, matching the consistency that people expect. FROM: Rob DATE: Monday September 3, 2001 -- 12:29:48PM Blah. I've never been able to see what people like about coffee. The few times I've been able to force myself to drink it, it tasted pretty much what I think drinking a cigarette would taste like. FROM: Ryan DATE: Tuesday September 4, 2001 -- 12:03:05AM Coffee's OK, but I've lost a taste for it since I started drinking tea. Given my past stomach problems, coffee's acidity has always affected me. I do remember one coffee shop in the Cherry Hill Mall that served up an incredible vanilla coffee... ever so rarely I'll have a cup, but rarely. FROM: Matt DATE: Tuesday September 4, 2001 -- 2:26:37AM Rob- FROM: Chris DATE: Tuesday September 4, 2001 -- 1:43:26PM I started eating coffee flavored ice cream and gradually worked my way up to black coffee. My parents never drank much coffee and I just assumed that being able to drink coffe black was THE goal of all coffee drinkers. I will take Krispy Kreme coffee over starbucks anyday. FROM: Mike B. DATE: Thursday July 4, 2002 -- 11:46:01 am I'll always swear by Dunkin' Donuts Coffee over Starbucks. Once I got a package of Starbucks and it said to use literally twice the amount of grounds per serving than any other brand. FROM: worker DATE: Monday February 10, 2003 -- 11:04:12 am i work for starbucks and i like it alot because its fun and i enjoy the coffee actually FROM: Ken DATE: Sunday December 19, 2004 -- 4:42:59 pm Believe it or not there are no starbucks in reading pensylvania that i know of, the only two i have ever been to is one in pittsburgha dn one a rest stop on he way to pittsburgh © 2008 The Daily Ping, all rights reserved. We are not responsible for the content of any comments on our site. We are also not responsible, in general, so it's all good. |
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