"Dennis"
never.net> wrote in message
news:9vqdndHIzJwxTxjVnZ2dnUVZ_r3inZ2d@comcast.com...> FROM WALL STREET JOURNAL
>
> HEAD: Starbucks Gets Pleas Not to Close Stores
>
>
> Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations it wants to
> shutter, a phenomenon is taking hold: the Save Our Starbucks campaign.
>
> In towns as small as Bloomfield, N.M., and metropolises as large as New
> York, customers and city officials are starting to write letters, place
> phone calls, circulate petitions and otherwise plead with the coffee
company
> to change its mind.
>
> "Now that it's going away, we're devastated," said Kate Walker, a
facilities
> manager for software company SunGard Financial Systems who recently
learned
> of a store closing in New York City.
>
> It is an unusual twist in the saga of Starbucks, one of the
fastest-growing
> retailers of the past decade. For years, Starbucks gained attention when a
> town didn't welcome it. Independent coffee shops complained about the
> big-muscled competition, and residents bemoaned the erosion of local
> character.
>
> But ever since Starbucks announced this month that it would close 600
stores
> by early next year, as its business struggles, the rallying cause has
> switched to saving these endangered locations.
> **********
> Lab-rat libs...first they complain about "Big Coffee" destroying the
local
> character by putting poor little beaner companies out of business, then
they
> complain about losing their daily dose of double-whip, extra cinnamon,
half
> de-caf, karaoke frappe with a twist. Never any ethics beyond situational
for
> the lab-rats.
>
> Dionysus
>
Probably one the reasons they don't like to see Starbucks close is because
it's one of the few big business in our days that give health care to its
employees.
And they make good coffee. I have two in my neighborhood and I won't want to
see 'em close.
Your comment about liberals shows your hate for people that don't agree with
your twisted mind.
