Great news!!

[Dead_Lioness]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071702651.html?nav=rss_metro

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Where are you going to get your coffee now?!

 

[reese_apoc]

At Fry's Food & Drug store (which is where i work), there's this place called Tully's Coffee that is in competition with Starbucks across the street in a Basche's store. slightly cheaper than starfucks, pretty good too.

 

[The Emptier]

this is old news, they said this ages ago. the went way overboard and built way to many fucking stores, any could've seen it coming

 

[Shpongled]

Tully's also makes their home in Seattle. They're in the old Rainier Beer building. Oddly enough, my band was looking at renting one of the many rehearsal rooms located ina section of that enormous structure. You can see that building from pretty much everywhere south of Downtown. It's like fuckin' Helm's Deep or some shit haha.

 

[Captain Beard]

Meh, I like iced coffee, and I get it at this local place that used to be a photo kiosk.

 

[Brooks]

Something amazing happened last year.

Starbucks was courting a local Toyota dealer's lot right by my house for a potential new store, something Starbucks, with it's scaly tentacles tends to do. However, the Inner Richmond is home to one of the great independent coffee shops of the world (as far as I'm concerned) in The Blue Danube Coffee House, and to open another Starbucks right across the street from it when there already is a Starbucks a scant five blocks away was ludicrous.

This angered us San Franciscans--and you don't want to piss off hippie liberals with time on their hands. We did what any self respecting elitist coffee snobs would do: we petitioned the city council! And you know what?

Starbucks retreated.



Go back to Seattle with all the OTHER liberal hippies! Nyah!

 

[Psychonaut]

This is good. Starbucks is nasty. Tastes like the drippings in my grill pan dissolved in water.

 

[Altitudes]

Starbucks is good, but I'm not spending $5 for a fucking latte

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

srsly.

 

[Morganna]

Awww This was one of my many starbucks before I moved. Collington Plaza, Bowie. Seriously, that was my neighborhood.

Well there was also the one at the free state mall plaza. The one in the book store at the Bowie town center, and the one across the street from my old work at the Bowie town center.

 

[Liverslapper]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071702651.html?nav=rss_metro

So you didn't save a lot of money on your car insurance by switching to geico..

 

[Brooks]

Doesn't anyone think my story is cool??? The little guys won!!! THE LITTLE GUYS WON!!!!!!!

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Add some explosions, and maybe a car chase or two, and your story will be a hit!

 

[Brooks]

It'll be adapted into a major miniseries on UPN next fall!

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

ahahaha win

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

The local news just said that 29 of our local Starbucks are closing. That only leaves about a thousand too many, still.

 

[Captain Beard]

We're losing one, that's been open for 5 years at least.

 

[Lunar Still]

I demand that they keep the Starbucks across from the Starbucks in Houston open, if only as punishment to show what happens when a corporation roots itself in EVERY-FUCKING-WHERE.

 

[JBroll]

This is good. Starbucks is nasty. Tastes like the drippings in my grill pan dissolved in water.

Agreed.

Jeff