It’s not “How long must we wait to see Tim’s, Mark’s, and Becks’ designs?” It’s not “How the hell will I pay for gasoline?” It’s not “Where’s Becky’s Photo Friday?” It’s not even “McCain or Obama?”
It’s–WHAT ABOUT MY STARBUCKS? Full list of planned closings right here. I hope this won’t ruin anyone’s weekend.
The joy of New Orleans is they could close every Starbucks and there are still about 23,452 great places to get a fabulous coffee.
FYI, I am lobbying for allowing doll shoes on Runway Mondays. After all, not even Heidi Klum makes the designers make shoes.
I think Marika was just yanking our Jimmy Choo chains.
(Aren’t these fab?)
Regarding the Starbucks closures, they’ve assured their customers they are only closing unprofitable stores that have other stores close by. I just hope they’re retaining as many employees as they can–or they’ll be eligible for quick rehire. (I don’t think Starbucks has a large turnover–I could be wrong.)
As for Montrose, we’ll still have our two on either side of West Gray, plus the other two or three nearby.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
She is evil.
Thankfully I’ve never been impressed with StarBUCKS‘ coffee! Get yourself a good coffee maker with a good filter, fresh roasted beans, a coffee mill to grind them fresh and and a little milk, creamers and flavorings and you’ll soom be making all the macho mocha latte grande supremes on their menu with little or no effort and at a fraction of the cost. OK, so I’ve got 20 different blends and roasts of coffee in the fridge right now. BTW, IHOP serves a great cup of coffee.
I don’t need LESS reason to leave the house! And no matter what I can do at home, I’ve never concocted anything nearly as good as a mocha frappuccino.
There’s also the convenience factor (grabbing one at the drive-through when I most need it and letting it go with me on my errands), or the people-watching factor (sitting with one for a couple of hours and taking in the world around me), and especially the book factor (buying and beginning a novel while enjoying my Starbucks at Barnes and Noble or Seattle’s Best at Borders). More expensive than home? Yes. But as an occasional treat with all that other entertainment? Worth it!
Having forgotten my own quixotic motto … To each his Dulcinea! (That he alone can name, To each a secret hiding place: Where he can find the haunting face –To light his secret flame.) … I allowed my tongue in chic to get the best of me. My (and most of the Wicket City citizenry’s) private passion is a Ted Drewes’ concrete on a sultry summer’s eve. While I can turn out coffee with the best of them, I can not compete with the atmosphere of the concrete! BTW, old man McCain probably lost the city’s votes last week when his handlers staged a photo op-stop here for a cement. It’s amazing that I’ve never done a Tourist Trek stop here before.
It used to keep me sane to go to my local Starbucks, read a book that was too clever for me, and people-watch. One time I even bumped into a friend from the Bay Area who had *no* idea I lived in Lodi. I’ve done work there, too—it’s good to have a change of scene. 🙂
Two in Redding are closing, but Redding is nearly an hour away, and there’s a lovely local place in town called Mamma Llama’s 🙂
orange mocha frappuccino + a gasoline fight = good times
I can see why that would be true.
Corporate Coffee … damn the man!
There are four Starbucks within one mile of my Kohls. And they had planned on putting another one right in front of us, but changed their minds. There one in it’s own building, one in Target,one in Barnes and Nobles and another in Krogers. All within I’d say a mile, mile and a half total. Hell, the two in Target and Barnes and Nobles are in the same plaza, two stores apart.
I don’t ask because I can wait for true genius, I walk almost everywhere and take the bus everywhere else, I love Photo Friday on Sunday as well as on Friday, and I’m sticking by my prediction of Obama by 25%.
It’s odd that most of the Starbucks closing in my area are in the malls. Mind you, the mall near me has two Starbucks, inside the mall, along with the one across the street at Target. They and the other four within two miles of my home are all staying open. This is one of the benefits of living next door to a major theme park.
I like your answers!
Speaking of Starbucks being inside malls… For the past few years, conventional wisdom has it that malls are dying, and people are looking for more mixed used space, where they can have retail, residences, and restaurants in the same location that includes indoor and outdoor space. I definitely have seen a decrease in traffic at Houston malls, and several of them have closed. Since your climate is much the same as ours, are you seeing a similar trend there?
Not so much, but I live in a tourist hub. We don’t have any malls dying around us because people come to Orlando to shop. For teenage girls from Brazil, this has been their prime choice for such things (um, New York anybody?).
The Starbucks closing in this area are the ones furthest from the various “Worlds.”
It’s funny how a hundred miles make a difference. On the west coast of FL, where I used to live, malls are suffering the same way they are everywhere else. I should qualify that. As hot as this damn state is most of the year, the open air malls are thriving and popping up all over. I know of two that are built on the bulldozed bodies of dead enclosed malls.
Where is BUTTON SUNDAY!
You’re awfully demanding for someone who hasn’t posted Dash Haiku.