Starbucks (sucks) and Blockbuster

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:

> Henry, I am sure, will want to reply on his own, but for my money--they are 
the coffee 
> imperialists of the day.  Creeping corporate coffee.  Just knocked off 
another little taco 
> stand here in L.A. (my fave too, Daddy's Burritos on Bundy) to make way for 
yet another 
> one of those little cloned *coffee houses*--got themselves on United 
airlines too.  Lousy 
> lousy coffee.  I notice here in L.A. they try to get themselves located as 
close as they can to  
> another wonderful corporate engine--Blockbuster video.  Waddya all think of 
that 
> enterprise?  Don't they make a swell pair?
> 
> john m

Blockbuster is now expanding into CDs, apparently on the old theory that
if you don't grow you die.  They just tore down an older unique building
in my neighborhood to build a new store.

I have to confess that I enjoy the Starbucks at B&N, yet another corporate
monster putting ma and pa out of business.  Mea culpa. 

	Steve