Starbucks

[LBernier at tribune.com]

Sadly, I am a member of the Starbucks cult, there being one 4 blocks from my 
house.  I stop every morning and get a "grand-ay" coffee on my way to work.
I know I shouldn't do it, but it's so . . . easy, somehow.  

Jean.
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Subject: Re: Starbucks
Author:  Murthy Yenamandra <yenamand at cs.umn.edu> at Internet_tco
Date:    1/8/97 10:51 AM


Stefan Schuber writes:
> Henry M. just referred to the Starbucks folks as "coffee nazis."
     
Around here, it's fairly appropriate - they have extremely uncomfortable 
chairs and a very small space to sit in. Their goal seems to be to get 
the customer to buy something and move on. Unless you're truly stuck 
without alternatives, why not go to a more comfortable place where you 
can actually hang out?
     
> As a long-time user of their espresso products, I wonder if I'm missing 
> something or if this is a gratuitous anti-corporate blast.
     
What's gratuitous about an anti-corporate blast? Didn't you get the 
pynchon-l intro packet? Corporate Bad, Small Beautiful!
     
Murthy
     
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Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu 
	"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
	 Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"