I wonder how they stay in business if their coffee is so overpriced?
I think convience has something to do with it. I never went there until they opened a stand right in the middle of the grocery store; I'll pick up a drink there periodically now. _________________ “I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.” - C.G.Jung
Here in the town I live in, there are literally 2 Starbucks in the very same shopping center. I just don't understand the logic of having that kind of competition. And my town is over saturated with all kinds of coffee houses not just Starbucks. Either way, I rarely ever visit...I prefer tea to coffee.
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Joined: Jul 17, 2007 Age: 23 Posts: 3438 Location: Benny & Joon town (I wish)
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject:
At the Pioneer Place mall in downtown, there are two Starbucks in that mall. One on the main and one of the third floor. _________________ http://www.factcheck.org/
There is a shopping center in Pasadena, Texas with a Starbucks inside a Target, and a Starbucks in a shopping center in front of it.
And across the street, there is another shopping center with a Barnes and Noble, with a Starbucks in it.
And lastly, just down the street in yet another shopping center, yep, another Starbucks. _________________ When you need something, that's a responsibility, that only an adult...of my maturity...Bunnies!!!
Joined: Oct 06, 2007 Age: 39 Posts: 3093 Location: Sydney, Australia
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:48 am Post subject:
Reason: Starbucks is a coffee shop... but what they make.... urgh... they call that coffee???? _________________ Gavin.
http://life-with-aspergers.blogspot.com/
Starbucks...is that the places with the ridiculously
overprized coffee? and i mean ridiculous! why people
shell out massive amounts of $ for a cup of water and
coffee, i will never know
Joined: Apr 14, 2006 Age: 24 Posts: 1173 Location: Mid North Coast, NSW, Australia
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:28 am Post subject:
There is only one Starbucks in my city. There are two Gloria Jean's though. Plus the area has its own local franchise called "Buzz" Coffee.
I perfer to support the family owned coffee shop anyway. _________________ "There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and its filled with people who are filled with sh*t and the vermin of the world inhabit it"
Joined: Mar 09, 2006 Posts: 987 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject:
Further to my post on the Edinburgh situation yesterday, I felt compelled to write another one expanding on that.
I was just looking at the Starbucks store finder, which brings up sixteen Starbucks in Edinburgh. The site is obviously out of date because I can think of four other Starbucks cafes in the city.
This gives the city, in a population of 430,000, at least TWENTY Starbucks cafes.
Beat that for Starbucks market saturation.
Like the US our economy is supposed to be faltering yet Starbucks continue to open shops apace here.
That's not even the half of all the coffee shops in Edinburgh (Costa, Nero, Beanscene etc.)
Edinburgh has the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland. It alone has TWO Starbucks.
Sentiments were expressed the day after one of the recent Starbucks openings, when the words 'ANOTHER ONE?!' and below that a frowning face were graffitied on the outside of the cafe.
Joined: Aug 27, 2006 Age: 48 Posts: 1056 Location: Paisley,Scotland UK
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:24 pm Post subject:
I work in Glasgow and there are 4 Starbucks in the city centre just within a few hundred yards of each other.Don't think they'll keep them all open either when they're competing with so many similar businesses. _________________ I have lost the will to be apathetic
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I just don't understand the logic of having that kind of competition. And my town is over saturated with all kinds of coffee houses not just Starbucks. Either way, I rarely ever visit...I prefer tea to coffee.
