Ok, a new day has dawned on IHateStarbucks.com.
I no longer want to keep hacking the old, tired php on the site, so this is what I propose. These messages will remain up for all eternity. In addition, there is a new Guest book. So if you want to share your opinons, i.e. post to the site, go here. As always, if wish to rant or rave, send me an email:
| Name: | Dee Ouellette 05027 |
| Date: | May 25 2006 02:25 AM |
| Friends,
PLEASE FORWARD FAR AND WIDE
Just got word from some little birds that the City of
Emeryville California is planning to place a Starbucks at 43rd
and San Pablo across the plaza from the Arizmendi
Bakery where I work. Several years ago when the plaza
was built the city agreed under overwhelming citizen
pressure to reserve the spaces in the plaza for
non-corporate locally owned businesses. This is how
the bakery, a worker-owned cooperative, came to be
there. The city is now secretly planning to renege on
that promise and bring a Starbucks in. They city
council will be meeting in closed session on June 6 to
approve the plan. If approved, citizens opposed and
affected will never be asked or given the opportunity
to speak up. Very fair.
Which is why I am posting this. Since we are
not being invited to speak we'll just have to crash
the party :)
I am asking all of you to please take a moment to call (especially east bay and emeryville peeps)
the Emeryville City Council members and register your
opposition to the Starbucks and to the way it is being
approved. It does not matter if you live in
Emeryville. If the Council feels pressure on this
they may open the process up and if they do the plan
has an excellent chance of being killed or delayed.
To reach them by email go to this webpage
http://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/gov/city_council.html
To reach them by phone call 510 596-4376 for Ruth
Atkins or Nora Davis. Call 510-547-2101 for Ken
Bukowski. Call 510-654-3981 for Dick Kassis. And
call 510-601-8846 for John Fricke.
Please know that phone calls are much better than
emails for making your voice heard.
Thanks for taking a moment,
Much love,
Mama Dee |
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| Name: | frank more 05020 |
| Date: | May 24 2006 02:05 PM |
| Yes i agree , one thing to slow them down would be super glue , front door lock.
Just as similar elf or ef could go to the hummer lot with some alaska fish fertilizer . enjoy the day . |
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| Name: | Deanna 05025 |
| Date: | May 23 2006 06:49 PM |
| Brad,
NO, the Da Vinci Code is NOT real. Starbucks...coffee...who needs any of it? |
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| Name: | lieke 05022 |
| Date: | May 23 2006 06:47 PM |
| your entries are great.. i do believe so.. thanks for giving me another one good reason to work my ass off trying to be a kick ass sbux' barista. you really pump me up!
PS: i don't think $ uses chicory, but who am i to know.. |
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| Name: | Anne 05021 |
| Date: | May 23 2006 06:46 PM |
| no Brad, the Da Vinci code is NOT REAL:)
starbucks is an insult to italians. |
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| Name: | lieke 05023 |
| Date: | May 23 2006 01:05 AM |
| one more thing...
i'm sorry for the language...
anyway, maybe u've deleted my message already.
if you haven't, you don't have post my message at all, i just want to tell you personally.
i really do respect your opinions... i think you're a cool guy!! |
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| Name: | Christy 05018 |
| Date: | May 22 2006 02:10 AM |
| Ew, so nasty! All the beans taste the same if you drink them black. |
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| Name: | Brad Virgil 05015 |
| Date: | May 22 2006 02:10 AM |
| Not only outrageously priced but it tastes like it is burnt not roasted. I know they must have heard this criticism but I am told that nothing has been done. And in a paper cup? One trip to Italy or Scandinavia and you will get a cup of Black Gold. Something worth paying for and lo and behold you get it in a china cup with saucer and maybe a sweet. It is just a sign of the times, if repeated enough you startto believe it. By the way, is the Da Vinci Code real? |
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| Name: | Christy 05019 |
| Date: | May 21 2006 10:41 PM |
| Ew, so nasty! All the beans taste the same if you drink them black. |
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| Name: | Fred Rogers 05017 |
| Date: | May 21 2006 05:34 PM |
| Not sure I agree with you Mini. I think Starbucks tastes awful becuase they over-roast the beans. Chicory is smooth rather than bitter. |
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| Name: | Mini 05016 |
| Date: | May 21 2006 05:31 PM |
| I own a coffee shop near Starbucks. I didn't know any better when I opened the store, because, it turns out, that there are 7 more starbucks coffees within the 5 mile radius. how do they operate their stores? aren't they operating at a loss because there are so many of them? i am operating at a loss because of 3 other starbucks stores within 1.5 mile radius. god help me.
Also their coffee is bitter because they add chicory to their coffees. it leaves bitter taste and makes you hyper. chicory has been used to replace coffee for decades, and is still used in coffee blends. The root of the chicory plant is long and thick, like the tap-root of the dandelion. When dried, roasted and ground, it makes an excellent substitute for coffee. chicory is more soluable in water than coffee, which means you use a lot less of it when brewing. Very economical for someone on a tight budget, but i don't think starbucks has tight budget. but overall, there shouldn't be any chicory in coffee in the first place. so if you drink starbucks coffee, you are throwing away more $ than you thought you did at an already overpriced coffee. |
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| Name: | Roger 05014 |
| Date: | May 19 2006 04:43 PM |
| Here is an idea, a friend of mine and I were riding on a bus in London and played "Punch Starbucks"... a version of "Punch Buggy" or "Slug Bug". If you think that there aren't too many Starbucks, try that game to see. In case you aren't familiar with the games, first person to spot a Starbucks gets to punch the other person. |
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| Name: | Joel Donaldson 04447 |
| Date: | Apr 30 2006 06:08 PM |
| I have been in the coffee industry now for 22 yrs...I have sold office coffee..food service..hotel resturant coffee's and now I work for a national whole bean company suppling the retail grocery industry...it just kills me ta see all the propaganda starbucks spreads and now with their purchuse of Seattle's Best Coffee Co...how to ruin another great coffee company........ |
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| Name: | JAM 04476 |
| Date: | Oct 16 2005 11:49 PM |
| What's up with those breakfast sandwiches "the bucks" has now? I mean is this McDonalds or what? I truely beleive this is the beginning of the end for this Monster and I can't wait!! They have no place else to go but down tahee hee hee... |
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| Name: | Dee 04941 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 05:59 PM |
| I like your site. Corporate coffee like Starbucks is making smaller shops harder to grow and flourish, which I thought small business is what made this country great. Even though I worked for Barnie's coffee and Tea company, maybe not a better business, but at least the coffee was a lil better tasting. We should all support the small mom and pop coffee shops, and let the evil corporate offices know that we want better coffee! |
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| Name: | Megan 04938 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 05:56 PM |
| Starbucks coffee is horrible and so expensive! All you losers out there who feel the need to show your status by marching around with those cups...run your numbers through this calculator I found on the web and realize how much you are throwing to the corporate pig:
http://www.hughchou.org/calc/coffee.cgi |
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| Name: | Johnathan 04956 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 05:56 PM |
| STARBUCK'S IS A FAD!!!! IT WILL SOON BE GONE. |
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| Name: | East Van Barista 04957 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 05:55 PM |
| I'm a barista in an East Vancouver independant coffee shop. When a Starbucks opened recently a block away we welcomed them to the neighborhood by dressing in drag and bringing them a tuna cassarole. We even sang them a song and got it on camera. I think because we are a family-oriented neighborhood I'm happy to say our business has not suffered. So there is hope as long as we support our local businesses. Freaking them out by dressing in drag doesn't hurt either. |
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| Name: | honesty 04948 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 05:54 PM |
| Hey Guys I'd like to tell u how I screwed over the multi-national corp of evil capitalism that is starbucks, the name that has greed 4 money written all over it. A couple of months ago I was studying in a large city in the North Of England when my friends took me to a nearby coffeehouse for lunch which happened to be a friggin starbucks, so all i can afford is sum kinda frappawathef*ck, neway 5 minutes l8r watchin the pawns hand over there cash for the manufactured crap they think makes them ultimately seem successful and part-of-it-all I take my frappaf*ck from a different employee to the one that served me and walk upstairs, all this happens without me being asked for cash. Now i think the employees there are decent ppl, hey theyre just tryin to earn a living and after a battle with my conscience i decided not to return to the counter to pay for the stolen blood sweat and tears of those uncared for, poverty-stricken workers to take a stand against Capitalism in general. So i calmly walked out of the store, whilst exchanging glances with the guy that served me. We did not say a word, but I wd like to thank him in contributing to my realisation that we as consumers have a choice - to support the moral and boycott the evils of those who lust for more and steal due to greed. Was I wrong to "steal" that day? Or is Starbucks Corp. wrong 4 how it goes abt evil business? Who is the real theif? |
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| Name: | ege 04947 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 05:53 PM |
| im living in Turkey and i hate starbucks too because their coffee is crappy. i have to pay 2$ for a brown colored mixture of sugar and milk because there are no cofee shops left here after the arrival of this damn buckie thing 2 years ago. I want my coffee back damnit! |
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| Name: | Frédéric 04952 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 05:51 PM |
| Hi, here a french guy. Each month there\'s a new Starbucks in Paris. J\'appelle au boycott des intérêts américains et à s\'opposer à l\'impérialisme. FRED. |
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| Name: | Sheena Starbuck 04946 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 03:19 PM |
| I hate Starbucks because the morons spend countless amounts of hours trying to buy off my family so we don't open a Starbucks in our home town to rival them.. Well I say ha screw that I will just to be a pain Im sick of the phone calls on Christmas! TO HELL WITH STARBUCKS... Id rather just drink juice. |
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| Name: | Icxbuxeverywhere 04964 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 03:19 PM |
| Hole making in my wallet, $4 for a grande (small) cup of bitter and tasteless cup of coffee, took 20 minutes to wait for, people on computer who do not know how to go home, long line inside and outside in the drive-thru, venti grande whatever lingo, stupid brown sleeves, and crappy music Starbucks is everywhere. And that is my 2 cents! |
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| Name: | Pete 04988 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 03:18 PM |
| Starbucks seem to be appearing everywhere. It's not just Starbucks fault but it's the people who go there. We should stop going somewhere just becasue of a brand name, yes because it is a starbucks/mcdonalds etc you know what you are going to get but try soemthing different for a change, go to an indepenent coffee shop, life is so much more interesting when you try different things, and it makes our shopping streets so much more interesting by not having all of the same chain shops, and it stops people becoming part of vast faceless money making machines just becasue they want to make a living.
Starbucks is average, do we really want to live a life of the mediocre, average, boring?
PS a starbucks has now opened near me next door to the nicest coffe and tea place for miles around, I hope people see this and stop being cattle feed to a brand and the coffe/tea shop does not get pushed out. |
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| Name: | Bruce Kula 04986 |
| Date: | Sep 01 2005 03:17 PM |
| I have in the past only mildly disliked and casually avoided Starbucks shops, booths, and wagons. (Clue to defenders of Starbucks: the corporate moniker has no apostrophe.) But I really like ihatestarbucks.com, and will consider working myself up to a higher passion against the ubiquitous beansoaker. |
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