You buy a $4 coffee and they will give away a WHOLE NICKEL!!!
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Starbucks goes (RED).
Join us for World AIDS Day. On Dec 1, buy any hand-crafted beverage and we’ll give 5¢ to the Global Fund to help save lives in Africa. |
| Time: | December 1 at 7:00am |
| Location: | Participating Starbucks locations in the US & Canada |
| Attendees: | 77,037 people |
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How about skipping your freaking overpriced fey boutique coffee and giving the whole $4?
I hereby promise to outdo Starbucks by a factor of twenty. Anyone sends me $4.00 and I’ll send a buck to charity, burnt flavored beverage optional.
I don’t get that ‘hand-crafted’ BS. Its as if they’re trying to say ‘no no, we’re not some evil multi-national corporation – we’re a good, wholesome cottage industry! We employ only down-at-the-heel tradition-oriented peasant baristas!’
They still are a cottage industry at heart, as their slumping business performance demonstrates. There are three Starbucks in my area or on my commute that are slated for closing, after being open less than a year. What a waste…
I like Bill Maher’s observation: ‘The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n’-Low and one NutraSweet,” ooh, you’re a huge asshole.’
Maher knows whereof he speaks, TSI.
Over the summer, I went into Starbucks and asked for the most caffeinated cold beverage I could get. The thing involved expresso over ice. It was yummy. But 5 cents a drink is WEAK.
My dad doesn’t do cafes. He walked into one at my college and asked for a coffee.
The barista started to say the options, then paused as he saw the look on Dad’s face, turned around and got to work
Dad got a black coffee, no fuss.
Wow…A whole five cents…
Those starbucks catz really know how to go all out for a good cause…
This is pathetic, and the lefties at starbucks should be ashamed of themselves…
I mean, eeeeeeevil Booooooooosh! has given more of our money to fight AIDS in Africa than this…
I guess they’re tapped out from giving to O!s campaign, you know, social justice and all…
I know that some folks really dig starbucks; but I’m looking forward to their stock, and number of stores, trending toward zero! If all those Barista’s have to look for work, it may be the definition of a crisis in the gay community; expect a government bailout forthwith…
But I’m a, you know, wingnut H8er…
Sanity: Damn right. Which is why what I order is “quad venti mocha”. (Or, in English, “A big chocolate thingy with lots of zip”.)
Five syllables, three words, and two of them absolutely necessary to describe size and flavoring.
Steve Martin did the first joke on complex coffee orders I can remember. It was in “LA Story” released in 1991. When I was a kid in the early sixties we had a mythos that said the next fad to hit our neighborhood (hula-hoops, slinkys, hairstyles, etc.) was already getting started in California as we spoke. A distant and mysterious place of innovation was California in those days.
But that kind of righteousness doesn’t come with a sugar hit and a caffeine buzz.
I love fey boutique coffee. The more overpriced the better.
Free market, bitches.
“How about skipping your freaking overpriced fey boutique coffee and giving the whole $4?”
But then you can’t drink it in front of the turkey slaughter!
It’s not about the nickel for Africa (the “partner companies” spend more on the (RED) marketing than the Global Fund receives), it’s about the rationalization. The nickel ameliorates your guilt over living in North America and being well-off enough to purchase luxury goods.
If those “attendees” really cared about Africa, they’d give the Global Fund the $4. But the campaign isn’t aimed at people who care enough to inconvenience themselves by donating appreciable cash, it’s aimed at the people who need to feel warm and fuzzy about doing the stuff they do anyway. E.g., not PW readers.
Stopped patronizing these munches years ago because of their paerticpation in global warming propaganda. Haven’t missed them at all.
Co-branding with the “Global Fund” is an interesting choice I think for people what have driven their little brand into the ground with their snotty pretentious New York Timesy condescending here you go we selected some appropriate well-reviewed by the New York Times baby boomery music for you attitude. They’ve lost all local relevance whatsoever and are now something on the order of what you get when you cross Benetton with McDonald’s I think.
I stopped going to the Starbucks a block from my office once the smokin’ hot (and I mean smokin’ hot) blond barista left. Shallow? You betcha. This was the same one who, after I had to get out of my office to blow off steam with the Dow down 600 or 700 or 800 or whatever it was earlier this fall on one of numerous days, asked how my day was going and what I did for a living. When I told her, she said she would love to be in the business I’m in. I looked her straight in the eye and said, “Fine, I’ll switch with you right now.”
I have one I can see from my balcony. I went from a couple lattes a day to where I stopped going unless I have to meet up with people, and now I just get a regular coffee when I get stuck with going there. The new york times distribution deal really offended me. I hadn’t realized they were doing global warming propaganda too. I’m thinking next time I’ll just get a coffee at Ralph’s where the Starbuck’s is and be done with them. After I finish this last Starbuck’s card anyway. I get them a lot I can’t help it.
sorry. Starbucks I mean.
Don’t like SB. Can’t stand drinking coffee out of cardboard cups.
Also real coffee needs waiter/waitresses.
They bring coffee to your table while you talk to your companion or read the paper.
I view Starbucks like Samuel Adams. Their products aren’t that great, but they introduced a lot of people to the idea that you didn’t have to drink ‘second time through the grounds’ restaurant swill or weak, tasteless beer. Now most every town has a couple decent coffee shops and a brewpub or two. Gotta be glad that happened!
Will micro-distillers be next? I’ve recently sampled the wares of several boutique distillers and oh my that stuff is nice!
next will be charmless gray automats I think with low-carbon footprint locally grown food dishes and floors what get hosed down at night and if you stay at your table longer than twenty minutes they ask you to leave. Baracky will go and he will have the corned beef and he will take a bite and smile and pronounce it good.
Coffee comes from a pot, in the shop, with oil in it.