The Reconquest of Cool

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The falling Starbucks recent closing down to rain or whatever is pathetic and shows yet another weakness. Maybe a list of open Indie coffee shops posted here would be cool and a welcome poke in the eye to the mainstream burnt water served at starbucks.


At least when I bring in food from an adjoining store, Starbucks does not tell me take it back out. Others have said you can not bring outside food inside. In some respects your article is anti corporate, how does any retail chain compete, they have to play hard. And your rhetoric is a bit bitter to the taste of writing, hate.


I don't understand what the point of this article is. If Starbucks sucks so bad, and mom and pop coffee shops are on the come up, then don't worry about it, consumers speak with their dollars. Instead of talking about how indie coffee shops are successful despite Starbucks, you spend most of the article talking about how you think Starbucks is so horrible.

Jon Adams

I patronize all coffee shops. Starbucks' coffee leaves much to be desired. I find most indie shops brew better Java. Tim Hortons tosses their thermo coffee every 20 minutes! The best chain coffee shop in the US is It's A Grind, originated in Long Beach, CA and now franchising all over.

J Papi

That's right Bryan: I think the article is anticorporate. Did you read the magazine name ADBUSTERS? I wonder why we are surprised to find anticorporate articles here. Besides, corporations have good and things. Being anticorporate is not a sin.


Chain coffee joints make me want to barf. I work for a local coffee roaster and we sell fair trade, organic coffees roasted just about daily. I pull espresso and actually have to know what I'm doing instead of pushing a button that decides whether to froth the milk for a latte or a cappuccino. The regulars in the shop are friendly and don't talk on their cell phones when ordering. And the majority of them go far out of their way to avoid places like Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts which leaves me hopeful. In the meantime, let's just help people understand that just because it's overpriced and from Starbucks doesn't mean that it is good quality.


Lenka wrote: living miles and miles away in Central Europe in Slovakia, where we neither have Starbucks, McDonalds, nor Coffee Chaos.

No one is safe from the Corpacazis.

Jennifer W

I think it is sad that Starbucks is matching up with music and art and the fact that we let them condition us to think that they are not going to keep rasing the prices and decreasing the quaility the whole thing and the name just is ugly.


Why speaking against Starbucks and corporations, over and over again? Because people carry on their lives overlooking the sour. This chanting will be continuous until you wake up and grow a conscience out the Darwinian mindset. Write a novel on your laptop while seeping latte in a nonsmoking room, or weave your lifestyle around a multinational ideology that knows your desires so well. But not before you first question the practices underneath. Bringing down corporations is not feasible and even if it were, it wouldn't be conducive. But they can be told to refine their policies if we, the consumers, choose to.


Here in Italy there's no Starbucks outlets just because our local shops serve very good coffee at at least half of the price of Starbucks... And there are coffeeshops round every corner... The competition would be unbearable. Moreover, Italians love their coffee shops where you can have a relaxed chat or just stand drink and go out. The atmosphere in Starbucks is everywhere the same and it's what I personally look for when I'am abroad.


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