Talk:Starbucks

Contradiction

The fhfdsadjective, I've removed it. The thing about "intellectual discussions" is also absurd - I can only imagine that the writer was talking about Starbucks's reputation, so that's what I've changed it to. On the whole the article is surprisingly weak considering the strength of negative feeling against Starbucks in the States (or so I've heard). Isn't it accused of swallowing up a generation of privately owned coffee shops and replacing them with their own standard format? That was what made me look up this article. Palefire 11:40, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC) ffnecessarily all of them.--Dejitarob 05:03, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hmm... Which Peet's?

Entrepreneur Howard Schultz joined the company in 1982 and started the Il Giornale coffee bar chain in 1985, whose outlets were rebranded as Starbucks in 1987 when Il Giornale bought the existing Starbucks stores from the original owners, who held on to the Peet's chain that Starbucks had merged with a few years earlier.

Is this the same as Peet's Coffee, based in Berkeley, CA? The Peet's of Berkeley company history doesn't appear to mention this transaction. --[[User:ffstores. ff==IHateStarbucks.com== I don't think we should keep this external link; it is poorly done, and is hardly "a part of a relevant and NPOV link collection". ✏ Sverdrup 00:44, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

No indeed, it's just a chatroom. Still, we don't cover the notable anti-starbucks movement well (I added a bit, but there's probably lots more), and there has to be a decent, well-argued site criticizing the company somewhere. -- John Fader 01:12, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Website to represent distaste of Starbucks

www.revbilly.com is the site of a New York City based activist group, headed by actor and activist Bill ff part of a Googlewhack attempt to bind its name with that of Starbucks (boingboing post). We should have an exlink or two for the anti-starbucks movement, but neither this nor ihatestarbucks is really informative. -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 17:39, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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