How do you feel about Starbucks?

Do you like the fact that Starbucks is going back to the basics? Do you like how they started a community area where people could voice their opinion? http://www.starbucks.com/blogs/
Do you feel like they are listening to the people or do you see it as contrived?

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Permalink Reply by PANDA JU on May 16, 2008 at 2:26pm

Ha funny you should ask about Starbucks today.
Check out article below abt their new logo.
Dirty Dirty merpeople haha (I like it!)

Starbucks' New Logo Offends Godly People with Its Shameless Nudity

"Group Finds Starbucks Logo Too Hot to Handle." It's a story coming out of San Diego, wherein a Christian group is upset over the coffee chain's new throwback logo, which features, gasp, a tiny image of a topless mermaid. Apparently, the bus to go protest the gay marriage legalization must've been full, so this group decided to go after the second biggest thing that makes them so angry they just want to spit and say "Heck!" But, in their defense, do we really want our children, when they're off buying their daily $8 mocha lattes after school, being titillated by disrobed merpeople? Call us old-fashioned, but when we look at branding icons, we want them civilized and clothed! Go back to your wicked sea kingdom, Starbucks!

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Permalink Reply by sAm on May 18, 2008 at 10:52am

HAHAHA!!! Dirty Dirty Merpeople...thats some seriously funny stuff. You crack me up!

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Permalink Reply by Eugene on May 19, 2008 at 12:21am

starbucks is the wallmart of coffee. I would rather go to a mom and pop shop but the quality of Starbucks is pretty good, hmm...

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Permalink Reply by GLee on May 19, 2008 at 2:19pm

I love Starbucks. I used to be a pretty die hard Coffee Bean fan...but now, its Starbucks. Coffee Bean is wayyyy to sweet. I love Starbucks Green Tea Latte with non fat milk and one pump of Melon.

It's really weird, when im out of town and in a weird neighborhood, i see a Starbucks, and I just feel better, a little more safe (teardrop)...

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Permalink Reply by sAm on May 19, 2008 at 4:31pm

I like Starbucks a lot, there's definitely a familiarity about it. But besides that, the people at all three Starbucks that I regularly go to recognize me, and no, I'm not THAT famous. They're good friendly people that work there. They have good coffee, a friendly attititude. The only reason people hate on Starbucks is because its a large corporation. Me likey the evil corporation, they make great Americanos.

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Permalink Reply by Annie on May 19, 2008 at 9:51pm

Nothing beats setting up my corner desk, plugging in my laptop, and working away for hours with my grande soy latte in hand. I guess you can call starbucks my security blanket. This is really the only way I know I've prepared for a test.

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Permalink Reply by Caroline Jihae Turk on May 21, 2008 at 4:44pm

Starbucks is a GREAT place to take your toddler when he has to go to the potty every 20 minutes. Their bathrooms are mostly clean and they don't give you an evil eye if you just buy something small. I like their double-shots on ice. Very nice.