Hey, regarding Starbucks’ plan to remodel some stores to look more like a neighborhood independent coffee shop, or EXACTLY like the cool and successful restaurant next door, I was checking my email (here in Chicago, yes) when the local news ran the story. I looked up at WGN and saw the front of . . . Smith. The shot was framed not on the Starbucks next door that plans to be a Dr. Evil Mini-Me Smith, but on both stores, with Smith taking up two-thirds of the frame. Haven’t managed to find the video online, but will look.
UPDATE: The WGN News just did a poll, as scientific and legally binding as Slog polls, asking whether Starbucks should redesign its stores and add alcohol sales. 17% said yes, 83% said no, so I’m glad we got that settled.
Will the coffee be Fair Trade? Will the roasting be local and artisinal? Will the staff reflect the community it serves and be allowed to dress and comport themselves as such? Probably none of the above, and so it will just seem obviously fake. It’s clientele will be what it used to be: spillovers from Ladro and Victrola when those have filled up.
Easy way to spot the starbucks…send in a 39 year old male into the store to buy a cappucino.
If the clerk says:
“Sir, May I Help You.”
Busted! Starbucks.
UPDATE: Cubs suck.
I’ll take a chocolate martini straight up, please.
Is it organic fair trade chocolate made in the USA by the way?
“It’s clientele will be what it used to be: spillovers from Ladro and Victrola when those have filled up. “
Please, it’ll be the hospital staff and idiots like the petitioner who “need” chains like Starbucks and Applebees to feel comfortable. Change frightens them. I mean, while it’s nice that Starbucks is BASED in Seattle, their mass appeal lies in areas where there aren’t superior coffee available locally. Frankly, I’m annoyed that the petitioner got her way, so her fat ass now doesn’t have to walk a whole fucking block to get better coffee. Brand loyalty is for douchnozzles.
who cares, chicago sucks and so do your worthless posts you loser.
only a piece of shit would be a blogger on another cities newspaper website.
@6 Your cogent and well-reasoned and eloquent critique of my occasional blogging here would be more convincing if you had the brain cells to differentiate between the plural and the possessive of “city.”
I apologize to all other readers/sloggers for breaking the Don’t Feed the Trolls commandment, but I cannot fucking stand it when idiots abuse the English language. Abusing me, I’m fine with.
And, finally, if you want to visually represent a long, drawn-out “fuck off” it should be “fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck offfffffffffffffff” or “fuuuuuuuck owwwwwwwwwwwffff” not “fuckkkkkkkkkkk offfffffffffff” Hard plosive/occlusive consonants like “k” do not linger in the way you’d like them to.