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Question I have... Lending Tree mortgage co discusses personal info with co-workers,calling them deadbeats and my"shack Looking forward for any answer or 2. My 2nd question... Starbucks Coffee Company, Bank One and Visa Team Up to Develop the Next Evolution of the Starbucks Card. |
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That's a good question. I'm not sure what is the right answer to your question. I'll do some poking around and get back to you if I bump into an decent answer. You should email the people at Lending Tree as they probably know..
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That is terrible!! Water of all things! they should have offered water and any other thing they had in the face of that tragic event..
I used to live in Brooklyn also and must say I enjoyed going to any number of personal owned coffee shops in my neighborhood that all had more ambiance and all out kindness than you'd find at the Starbucks.. I am amazed that Starbucks refused water!! And I'd bet that any number of Korean mini markets (not a racial point I am making but in most areas of NYC, manhatten especially, the little convienance stores are owned mainly by Koreans. And they often have atrocious prices on their goods ($32 for a can off coffee.. they must buy theirs from the same distributor as Starbucks,,lol). In any event Id bet any number of these mini marts were gladly helping out in the crisis. But that is awful to hear! Water!!! geeesh!.. |
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You're going to blame the entire company for the actions of a 20-year old part time employee who is doing what he or she is told and is having a hard time getting through tech school? The actions of one employee are not necessarily indicitive of the entire company or what the manager or Corporate offices of the shop would have wanted..
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If he/she was doing what she was told, then she was doing what management or corporate offices had told them to do..
Yes, I blame the company... |
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Thats a true story..here's snopes take on it.
Http://www.snopes.com/rumors/starbuck.htm.. |
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According to the article posted above, Starbucks' Corporate offices took care of the problem, provided free coffee to rescue workers and gave $1 million to the September 11th Fund (a national relief endeavor to help victims of the tragedy). Did they respond immediately to the situation? No. Was it perfect handling of the situation? No. Do employees make mistakes? Yes. But it doesn't mean the whole company and all of it's workers are to blame..
Buckets.. |
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Hmm, $130. thats like 6 Starbucks drinks in NYC, hehe. $1,000,000 hmm, thats about 5 days recipts for that store. And considering that 1M was a corporate donation that means that they gave up about a nickel of revenue for one day if you average it out over All stores. Yep, they are generous. And they probably only felt compelled to do that because every other corporation was giving $1m or More..
I'm not abut to pat them on the shoulder for caving into corporate peer pressure.. Even a boneheaded 20 year old underpaid worker should have noticed the big airplanes flying into a couple of the largest buildings in the city and got a clue there was some urgent need to help. Ive lived in NYC for about 5 years and know that most things dramatic aren't that dramatic There, but considering the enormous impact this made in just a few short moments, even the clueless should have 'got it', and acted accordingly.. But as long as folks continue to pay for rediculously overpriced coffee drinks, Starbucks will continue to be the greedy monopoly that they are. The only parody I can recall at the moment was once seeing an episode of the Simpsons (take that for what it is.. Id rather my kids watched that than Barney!) and at the mall every little business was a Starbucks.. Can we say America is over saturated with them? Especially certain areas. When I lived in WA I couldnt stand seeing them. So I lived on Whidbey Island where I think there was only one on the whole Island and a good 25 miles from where I lived.. I will give a break to the little coffee/espresso stands that are on every corner of the state because at lease those are small businesses and not a huge corporation making the killing. And the truth is, I really like the junk that comes out of the gas station cuppacino machines. So I laugh even more. I do in all honesty have a weakness for the Cinnabons. But considering they are like $15+ for 6 cinnamon roles even those have their limit.. Hmm ya think Starbucks and Amex are in bed? They both represent overblown status symbols. These guys make the collection departments from Capital One and Providian and any other slimey CA look like humanitarians... |
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I agree that they are way way wway over priced and I rarely go to them because I'd rather pay for other over-priced places like fancy restuarants such as the Palm or Ruth's Chris. I also think that for 5 dollars I would rather get a scotch than a cup of coffee. But remember this is the free market and the object of a business owner is to get people to pay as much as they will before going somewhere else. Obviously a lot of people do enjoy the coffee habit. I never really thought of the Starbucks as a partiuclarly intellectual environment any more than 7eleven or Dunkin Donuts. If anything, the place seems very egalitarian in that people of all economic levels can waste their money. It is certainly nothing like the Beat-era coffee houses...
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You ought to go to a coffee house in Amsterdam. Guess what you get..
(Hint-its not coffee).. |
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In all fairness I will say that probably throughout most of the Starbuck through the majority of America there is likely little element of psuedo-intellectuals hanging out.. However when I lived in Washington, MANY locations were just that. Just kind of made me roll my eyes. I have a similar argument with the coffee shops they stick in the Barnes & Noble bookstores. Though that is more acceptable considering more actual literate people go there and trully just want a coffee at the time..
But some of the goofs that hang out at Starbucks litterally try to make it some big image to say "Hey, I can buy a $5 coffee. Look at me. Doesn't it match my new $400 coat from the mall." THAT is trying to keep up with the Jones. Not the desire to have a $15K car. just my opinion... |
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Is the ability to show that you can spend 5 on coffee kind of like the people who keep their windows in their cars down in the summer so that you can hear that they can afford to keep the air conditioner on?..
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ROFL!! You almost made me spill my coffee (instant) on my keyboard! What is that? Air on, but the window rolled down...*ahem* I've noticed that it's mostly men doing that, at least where I live...
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