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07/02/2008 (10:54 am)

Starbucks Closing 600 Stores - Whatever Shall We Do?

I love Starbucks as much as the next caffeine addict, but really, let’s face it, closing 600 stores nationwide won’t affect most people simply because there are approximately um, I don’t know, like 5 BILLION Starbucks in the world. Think about it. My local Target has a Starbucks, and then there’s the Starbucks in our town market area, and then the drive-thru down the road, and the one the next town over and so on. And I live in a fairly rural area, so imagine major metropolises.

When we were in Vegas last November, I counted like ten Starbucks locations in a 1-mile radius. Seriously, I am not kidding you. Urban sprawl and overindulgent excess are to blame. They charge $5 bucks for a caffeinated beverage and I am supposed to feel bad for Starbucks? I feel sorry for the employees who will lose their job, but then again, if Starbucks wasn’t so greedy, and grown only to fit the needs of community, not their corporate wallets, then this would not be happening.

Want to feel sorry for someone? Feel sorry for the factory workers in this country who’ve continued to watch their jobs disappear as we export so many jobs out of the country so we can buy our crappy, cheap trinkets from overseas. Why yes, I am guilty too. But that doesn’t mean I am not fed up.

Crazy gas prices, crazy cults, crazy flooding, crazy ass movie stars calling press conferences about their twins births? WTF? End of times people, we are seeing it.

I wonder if Tom Cruise has any room left in that bunker he’s building?

Posted by D
Filed under: Crazies, Starbucks

12/10/2007 (11:25 pm)

What? Britney Banned From Starbucks?

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Call the suicide hotline, she won’t have a reason to live!

Yes, Brit may be banned from any Starbucks in the Valley because of the complete and utter chaos that ensues whenever she gets the urge for a Grande Vanilla Frap (with two extra shots, y’all).  Apparently there have been meetings, and consultations, and the general consensus is that she just needs to stay home.  Or at least away from the ‘bucks.

It’s incredibly selfish of her to continue to go to these places and create this sort of frenzy in public.  Where is her consideration for other shoppers?  Where is her concern for other people who might get caught up in this walking mess?  What a self-centered little brat she is…time to grow up. 

You know, I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again:  If going to Starbucks causes this much commotion, and Britney knows this, then why do it?  Why not send someone to get her Frap for her?  Oh wait…because then she can’t get her photo taken by her bestest friends.  But lately the relationship between Brit and her pap buddies has gone a bit sour…listen to her tell them to stay off her “f*cking car” in the video below.  (video possibly NSFW)

Posted by k
Filed under: Britney Spears, Starbucks, You Can't Fix Stupid

10/06/2007 (4:37 pm)

Britney Spears Killed A Latte!

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Okay, not really.  But someone (some reports say a pap, some say an overzealous fan) threw a Starbucks onto Brit’s white Mercedes.  Hey, it looks like a Macchiato now!

What a horrible thing to do to that poor beverage.  Such a waste.  So many coffee growers worked and sweated and toiled in the hot sun to harvest those coffee beans so that they could be ground up and brewed into coffee, and someone wastes it by throwing it at Brit’s car.  So sad.

(I’m not trying, folks, it’s just that these posts basically write themselves.  I’m just the conduit.)

Posted by k
Filed under: Britney Spears, Starbucks