Pushing Back Against Seattle's Insidious, Logoless Starbucks!

Starbucks' new strategy is to pretend that it isn't Starbucks, and that means creating fake, folksy, coffee shops that don't include the Starbucks brand mark.

So some fine, enterprising Stop-Shoppers put on some green aprons and pushed BACK against the mermaid with no nipples!




From Brother Neil:
I wanted to thank you for all of the work you’ve done and let you know that you were a large inspiration for the performance I directed last month outside 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea, Starbucks first attempt to disguise itself as a local coffeeshop. I write for theatre but had never done any improv or performance pieces until I heard that Starbucks was opening this covert shop in my neighborhood.

In the hours immediately following the performance up to this very day, I find myself saying “good morning” to the people on my block rather than just smiling, asking their names and remembering them. Externally, it’s a small change. But internally, I feel like I’ve encountered something simply and precious that has been forgotten in the digital age.

Amen Neil! More pictures in the article here.

None more depraved than I....

You know, the irony here is that I would (at least marginally) be more likely to shop at Starbucks if they had kept the nipples. Nothing like a little porn to go with that morning cup of joe.....

Not the first

They are not the first company to do this. Disney did it with the unveiling of Touchstone Pictures. Amway has disguised itself as Quixstar. Now, after a few years of success with this, both companies admit who these alter-egos really are. casino en ligne bonus

Coffee is coffee!

I really dont understand why people have become so anti Starbucks. Obviously there was a demand for good coffee - Starbucks saw this and met it - hence their boom.
I am personally neither here nor there when it comes to coffee - I will drink it when i want it and where i want it. If it happens to be at Starbucks, I will simply enjoy my venti white chocolate mocha.
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Leave Starbucks alone!!

i really dont see what the problem is! Who cares if a company is big, and has a corporate policy? They employed many people, provided a service to the community which was needed, and even made the public aware of ecological issues.
So my coffee comes from Strbucks? So what! Its still good...
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Sneaky Sneaky

I was just in Seattle for a weekend.  I deliberately had my coffee in Non-Starbucks places (I hope).  I'd be really ticked if I found out that one of the cool coffee joints I was in was actually Starmucks. 

Argh!

Good times

I'm sure this new strategy of theirs is (at least partially) the direct result of Billy hassling them. Fun, but I'm not fooled! Collapse, Starbucks! Collapse! They think they can just mutate and we will forget their crimes? Collapse, damn you!!

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