Save Our Starbucks Campaigns Launched: Is Starbucks Brilliant?

Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations (see the full, searchable list) 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 giant to change its mind.

"Now that it's going away, we're devastated," said Kate Walker, a facilities manager for SunGard Financial Systems, a software company, who recently learned of a store closing in New York City.

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Comments

[Jessegirl]

I"LL HELP YOU SAVE STARBUCKS.....HERE I GO.....

STARBUCKS LOWER YOUR PRICES!!!!!!!!!!!

there...your welcome..

[ewj1]

Starbucks worse than Walmart on so many level. Pays bad, ends locally owned small businesses, and used exploitive practices.

[whiteboyblues]

Is it really that hard to make your own cup of coffee? Have we become a nation of wimps and whiners?

[ArnicaMontana]

oh, please. oh please get a life.

Rather than petition Starbucks not to close your store.

Find somebody in po-dunkia to open a new coffee shop in Starbucks' place.

All of the profits will stay in your town. and you will have one less mega-conglomerate-corporate store to deal with.

WallMart. You're next.

[EspressoAtNoon]

Good Riddance Starbucks - the "McDonald's" of coffee shops. Support your Independent Coffee Shops where they likely still use (unlike Starbucks) authentic espresso machines to pull the perfect shot.

Starbucks uses the same crapola machines that Dunkin Donuts uses.

[CaptainHowdy]

Americans are so stupid, brainwashed and misguided. How can people possibly want to help out a multinational firm that saps away wealth from their local economies?

Oh, yeah... I forgot. The media told them to.

[Portnoy]

RE: Americans are so stupid

You must be a Democrat. Everyone is stupid ,except you, so you feel compelled to tell us what we should be thinking instead.

Tim Horton's is better anyway.

[ArnicaMontana]

portnoy,
you are absolutely no fun.

CaptainHowdy,
your statement was over simplified and deserves ridicule, but Pornoy, grow up please!

[Bettysdad]

Actually, everyone else but we Democrats are, in fact, stupid.

It's been proven.

"While it's not true that all conservatives are stupid, it is a fact that all stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill

[CaptainHowdy]

LOL... I'm neither a Democrat nor a Republican.

You must be an American. Only an American would be so damned stupid that they actually believe there to be be any difference between the 2 corporate owned parties that are looting and destroying their country.

idiot...

[nellie]

I believe in local coffee shops. I also believe in free trade coffee.

http://www.delocator.net/

[LCRover001]

Friends don't let friends drink Starbucks.

I love these bumper stickers sold at little mom and pop coffee stands. Starbucks has run their selves out of business with their Wal-Mart like competition practices, come into an area build a store on every corner, under cut the price of competition and after they have gone out of business jack up the price. In their greedy campaign to run all mom and pop competitors out of business they have cut their own throats.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[AceInTheHole]

Don't get me wrong, I like Starbucks, and I hope that they are able to get their act together, but whenever a company begins to let it's hubris take over it's common business sense and try to become like McDONALDS ON STERIODS, it is hard to find sympathy for their self induced distress. Starbucks got to the point, that is was taking sand to the beach, with all of the illogical clusters.and over saturation of stores. Everybody eventually finds out that you can overdue, even a good thing, and now it's time for Starbucks to learn that lesson as well. History is full of failed business endeavors that started out like gang busters but eventually sunk from the weight of their own arrogance, over indulgences, and sense of invulnerability. GOOD LUCK STARBUCKS !

[Bettysdad]

I wonder how many of these people would put any effort into saving an American car company?

[truthyguy]

7,087 Company-operated stores and 4,081 Licensed stores.

So 600 closing spread across the U.S. is nothing considering there is a store on every corner.

[steveRB]

Starbucks is nothing more than marketing genius. The same marketing genius that makes everyone believe that diamonds are valuable.

[Geekboy]

This is not a good vs. evil issue. It's just a matter of common sense. When a trend starts and grows, people get used to it then assume the trend will continue forever. But the trend eventually reaches a limit. Starbucks is approaching their limit. Only so many people want to spend so much money drinking so much coffee!!
In my town of 50,000 people we have 4 Starbucks and are going to lose 1. Oh well! Life goes on! We have some bigger issues like trying to deal with our status as the "poster child for mortgage foreclosures".

[bikerdude]

Note to censors: In this post at least, you are scattering replies so they make no sense.

[Stagehnd1]

"Now that it's going away, we're devastated," said Kate Walker

Uhhh, that's just the crack in the coffee talking...

[bikerdude]

I gave up on Starbucks when they opened up a new one in the same block with the old one.