Comments on: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Starbucks http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/ Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:32:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Drury http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1336 Drury Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:26:11 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/#comment-1336 I liked Starbucks when they had the one store in the Pike Place Market. Now they intentionally try to buck established neighborhood coffee shops out of the way. They are corporate, not compassionate...They are the MacDonalds of coffee. I never go there. Listen to KEXP if you want exposure to world music. I liked Starbucks when they had the one store in the Pike Place Market. Now they intentionally try to buck established neighborhood coffee shops out of the way. They are corporate, not compassionate…They are the MacDonalds of coffee. I never go there. Listen to KEXP if you want exposure to world music.

]]> By: tonyd http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1335 tonyd Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:39:57 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/#comment-1335 Oops! Thanks for spotting that, Josh. I don't have anything against Starbucks, actually, though they are fun to poke fun at. Like any big company, there are plenty of things to complain about and to praise. Oops! Thanks for spotting that, Josh.

I don’t have anything against Starbucks, actually, though they are fun to poke fun at. Like any big company, there are plenty of things to complain about and to praise.

]]> By: josh http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1334 josh Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:31:36 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/#comment-1334 <b>HLCC:</b> Starbucks spends more on health insurance for it's employees than it does on coffee. [<a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/240742_healthcosts15.html" rel="nofollow">p-i</a>]. Their commitment to providing healthcare to full and part time employees seems incredibly admirable, at least to an outsider like me who hasn't ever worked in one of their shops. HLCC: Starbucks spends more on health insurance for it’s employees than it does on coffee. [p-i]. Their commitment to providing healthcare to full and part time employees seems incredibly admirable, at least to an outsider like me who hasn’t ever worked in one of their shops.

]]> By: wendolen http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1333 wendolen Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:18:39 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/#comment-1333 <i>Almost the only place in town you can get that queen of all pastry, the chocolate croissant.</i> You're joking, right? Central Market, Biofournil, Le Pannier jump to mind immediately, and there are plenty of others. HLLC: <i>labor practices</i> What have you got against their labor practices? With several friends who work or have worked there, I'm hard-pressed to think of a large retail-esque corporation that treats its employees better. Almost the only place in town you can get that queen of all pastry, the chocolate croissant.

You’re joking, right? Central Market, Biofournil, Le Pannier jump to mind immediately, and there are plenty of others.

HLLC: labor practices

What have you got against their labor practices? With several friends who work or have worked there, I’m hard-pressed to think of a large retail-esque corporation that treats its employees better.

]]> By: hllc http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1332 hllc Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:42:52 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-starbucks/#comment-1332 I dislike starbucks for the same reasons as most people (big corporation, labor practices, coffee snobbery, they were mean to me for the 6 hours i worked for them). But I have to admit I did appreciate that they brought the Sunday NYT into gentrifying neighborhoods. In the not-quite-there-yet neighborhoods i've lived in here and in portland, I couldn't delivery, and the scary safeway never carried my weekly sunday fix. I never thought I'd be grateful for starbucks, but i could always be sure that they would give me my nyt magazine, sunday styles, and book review for $5. I dislike starbucks for the same reasons as most people (big corporation, labor practices, coffee snobbery, they were mean to me for the 6 hours i worked for them). But I have to admit I did appreciate that they brought the Sunday NYT into gentrifying neighborhoods. In the not-quite-there-yet neighborhoods i’ve lived in here and in portland, I couldn’t delivery, and the scary safeway never carried my weekly sunday fix. I never thought I’d be grateful for starbucks, but i could always be sure that they would give me my nyt magazine, sunday styles, and book review for $5.

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