yea, i really like the company, overall, just not there coffee. i'd be a trader to DD's and i just can't do that
It's pretty sad when I pull up to the drive-thru and the baristas know me by name and drink. (thats probably at about three or four in town) Yes, I love starbucks, yes I go there most everyday, sometimes twice and yes I am most addicted to it.
hate to admit how much I like it... Tim Hortons coffee is too weak... I like adding all those extra shots of esspresso to my drinks... yum....
Balls to Starbucks to be frank. They are one of the big businesses at the centre of destroying the only area left in my town with no chain stores and lots of quirky independent shops and cafes, yet the sheep are happy to go in there when there are maybe 100 independent coffee shops within 5-10 mins walk. And to quote a book I have been reading when it comes to their CD range: Like all products with the word 'lifestyle' attched to them, these compilations are designed for people who have no life, nor any style. What they say is 'I do not know anything about music. Please, Clever Marketing People, target my demographic and tell me what you want me to like.' Who on earth thinks these things up, let alone buys them?
Take it or leave it... I usually hit up local coffee joints because 1) they're closer to me and 2) they have a cooler atmosphere. But, when I was in Portland OR a while ago, the Starbucks there was awesome, delicious, amazing. The ones here, suck. Most burn their coffee and make it super bitter. In Portland, they didn't. Maybe because S'toon is so far from where Starbucks originated, or maybe we're just senseless losers. Seriously though, most coffee made in Saskatchewan is suuuuper weak. Like, make your normal strength coffee at home, then mix it in a cup with half water, half coffee, that's how strong you normally get out here, aside from a coupel stores.
I prefer my local indie coffee shops to starbucks coz they have better atmosphere and nicer sofas. But I do go to starbucks too occasionally coz of the frappuccinos. And gingerbread lattes. Mmmmm...
well i generaly boycott them because of their union busting tactics against the wobblies, but other then that, i don't have any particular other feelings. i certaily don't dislike them as much as all the 50s crap with the cars stuck in the wall that there's been a couple of burger chains that had this as an attrataction for. and i do like expresso combo's, like mochachino. i also like real variatal as opposed to flavored, coffees, but i can't and don't and won't abide and subsidise union busting. i go to the flour garden bakery instead with their fair trade organic teas and coffees, which is a local outfit in grass valley and auburn california. =^^= .../\...
I'm not a fan of Starbucks. Exeter went from having no Starbucks to 2 in the space of 6 months. I mean, WTF is up with that? Plus, it's overpriced, nasty coffee and I'd much rather walk across the road and use the Boston Tea Party.
Star bucks is awesome, if you like burnt tasting, overpriced, disgusting ass liquid cat shit. I like the coffee shop I used to go to, the coffee was good, the employees were cool, and they always took good care of my son and I. He would always go in there and flirt with the coffee shop girls.
fountains of nay, 2 in six months is nothing. My little town had no Starbucks 3 years ago. Now there are 7 stores! We never really had any local coffee shops to start with, though.
my friend annie is from france (and obviously has an accent) and she went to a starbucks when she was over here on exchange for a semester. her waitress was romanian so annie said "excuse me, are you romanian?" the waitress replied "why are you making me fun of me with that fake accent?" and snarled. annie said, "I'm not making fun, I am french!" the romanian waitress replied "yah right" sarcastically and left. she sounded like a huge bitch. that is my only experience with starbucks really. oh, well I have gotten a cookie or two there.
I don't like coffee, so I probably don't really have room to state an opionion, but it's always better to buy fair trade coffees. They taste better AND it's more socially conscious. I used the restrooms in Starbucks, once in Chicago and once in Ann Arbor. I swear, in Chicago there is a Starbucks on EVERY CORNER practically. It's bizarre. In Ann Arbor there are two of them downtown and they are probably about five blocks from one another. Plus there is one outside of town, too. I don't know, Starbucks is just another franchise trying to monopolize.
