Originally Posted by alyssia
What do you guys have against Starbucks? Is it like a Walmart is trying to take over kind of thing? I've never been to Starbucks (hate coffee) so IDK what you guys are talking about.
great question, i'm gladja asked.
has nothing to do with the whole takeover thing (despite the fact that i have stock in Deitrich's Coffee and it's never earned a dime in the last 5 years) but more of the artificial "hip authenticity" it tries to create. this is the same with restaurants like BJ's Brewery, Macaroni Grill, El Torito, and Cheesecake Factory.
these places try to follow the Disneyland model by creating a themed atmosphere and cashing in on whatever ethnicity or hip trend they deem to exploit. but here's the problem: they SUCK at it.
they need to keep it simple. it's a coffee shop. nobody wants fancy drink names, jazz music, contemporary architecture, and all sorts of trinkets for sale in a coffee shop. they want coffee. and when i want a large coffee, i want a LARGE coffee. i don't want a "venti" coffee. that's a lame word that tries to make you sound fancy but it's just a nauscious display of arrogence. quit with this whole corporate smothered pseudo hip appeal because it creates a backlash: the toolbox typical customers that are slowly morphing into a......a......oh gawd.....a generation.
now i gotta walk in and be surrounded by a bunch of hippy, vegitarian, Bush-hatin, college students fumblin around with their laptops, programming the 5,000 songs in their IPODs, texting their buddies, and discussing stuff that makes them appear smart but really just insults the intelligence of the unfortunate listener. it's early and i want coffee. people like this are NOT the way one should start their day.
NOR are the employees. don't ask me how i'm doing right when i walk in the door. it's early and i haven't had coffee- how do you THINK i'm doing??? i don't need questions at this hour! hell, i'm still drunk from the night before.
i hate all those tofu grubbin weirdos and i hate corporations trying to be hip. Walmart, on the other hand, makes me happy because Walmart doesn't try to be cool. Walmart has an attitude like "hey i've gotta bunch of crap here, nothin special but come buy it cause it's cheap."
