{"id":2140,"date":"2008-07-21T13:41:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T17:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2008-08-20T21:23:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T01:23:45","slug":"f-you-you-whining-f-72108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/f-you-you-whining-f-72108","title":{"rendered":"F*** You, You Whining F***: 7\/21\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s Wall Street Journal,<\/em> there’s an article about how customers are asking Starbucks not to close<\/a> their favorite locations, following the chain’s disclosure of the 600 stores is plans to close. The two complainants in the article come from different worlds, Bloomfield, NM and Manhattan. The person from NM contends that her townspeople won’t miss the store itself, but that its absence may keep other businesses from seeing the town as a good place to set up shop. Since I live in a town that has no Starbucks but does have a Chinese restaurants where, in the words of my wife, “it doesn’t even taste like food,” I can understand that business stigma.<\/p>\n

However, the other person they interviewed was priceless:<\/p>\n

Ms. Walker is in charge of consolidating 525 people from seven of her company’s New York offices into a new building in January. The Starbucks inside that building, at Madison Avenue and 44th Street, “was something that we were using to psych people up” about the move, she said.<\/p>\n

Her hopes were dashed last week when Starbucks released the list of the stores it plans to close. She jumped on the Internet to find a phone number for the company’s main office so she can ask officials to reconsider. “Knowing Starbucks, there’s probably [another] one within a few blocks,” she said. “But that’s probably two blocks too far.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two things for Ms. Walker:<\/p>\n

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  1. go to the Starbucks Store Locator<\/a> and you’ll see that there’s a Starbucks across the street from your building as well as another one down the block on your side of the street, and<\/li>\n
  2. f*** you, you whining f***.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m hoping to make this the first installment in a series of smackdowns. If you can think of a better title for this, please send it over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In today’s Wall Street Journal, there’s an article about how customers are asking Starbucks not to close their favorite locations, following the chain’s disclosure of the 600 stores is plans to close. The two complainants in the article come from different worlds, Bloomfield, NM and Manhattan. The person from NM contends that her townspeople won’t … <\/p>\n

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