No Starbucks Cup Thread Yet?

[Ramone45]

I don't think there is a war on Christmas, especially from retailers. They LOVE Christmas. What, is it 40% of their annual business? What's not to love? They don't give a shit.
I find the cup thing interesting as a social phenomenon. I'm not a regular customer. I don't like the cup from a design perspective. It's dull an unimaginative. It is a clear departure from their previous holiday designs. It was done for a reason. The reason could be free advertising. A lot of people are talking about Starbucks, and that's always a good thing.
The Simon Malls put out an Ugly Santa experience display for kids to get their pictures taken with Santa. Some "Glacier" Experience. Extremely dull. Looked like a white clam shell. The evangelicals in Charlotte got them to take it down I think, but it is still up at Roosevelt Field. I'm offended by Santa shilling the week after Halloween.

 

[Aquagal]

Starbucks sucks, their coffee tastes like mud.

 

[thør]

Friends don't let friends drink Starbucks.

 

[Adre]

Must be an acquired taste...which I acquired.

 

[Libsam]

What the hell is going on? People are bitching about starbucks' cup designs?
I'm gonna need pictures...

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

People are offended by a plain red coffee cup..
http://i.imgur.com/RNcU86K.png
They should be offended by the logo if they really want to be offended.
http://i.imgur.com/9L0c5lw.jpg

 

[OjosMojo]

I don't think there is a war on Christmas, especially from retailers. They LOVE Christmas. What, is it 40% of their annual business? What's not to love? They don't give a shit.
I find the cup thing interesting as a social phenomenon. I'm not a regular customer. I don't like the cup from a design perspective. It's dull an unimaginative. It is a clear departure from their previous holiday designs. It was done for a reason. The reason could be free advertising. A lot of people are talking about Starbucks, and that's always a good thing.
The Simon Malls put out an Ugly Santa experience display for kids to get their pictures taken with Santa. Some "Glacier" Experience. Extremely dull. Looked like a white clam shell. The evangelicals in Charlotte got them to take it down I think, but it is still up at Roosevelt Field. I'm offended by Santa shilling the week after Halloween.

It's funny how bozos like you keep pimping the issue, yet no one actually cares about it except bozos like you.

Huh - imagine that.

 

[1sickbastard]

It's overpriced coffee and snacks targeted towards people whom conflate price with quality.
Say what you want, Starbucks continues to pass the only test that counts as a business; making money.

 

[Adre]

It's overpriced coffee and snacks targeted towards people whom conflate price with quality.
Say what you want, Starbucks continues to pass the only test that counts as a business; making money.

I don't consider two dollars for a large cup of coffee that someone else made for me expensive.

 

[1sickbastard]

I don't consider two dollars for a large cup of coffee that someone else made for me expensive.

So long as you feel you're getting value for your money, good for you.

 

[warrior queen]

#firstworldproblems
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l521/fial68/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-11/FB_IMG_1447352678694_zpse3pym9qj.jpg

 

[mark_j]

It's fairly simple from an advertising perspective..

Put out a plain red cup with a green logo. Tell the public it's "the holiday cup". Then watch as reams and reams of paper are wasted trying "interpret" what this all means (oh and by the way, Starbucks gets free advertising with all that pontification).

It's fucking brilliant..

 

[Miasorrow]

And then there is another red cup that had always been naked red and that actually tastes like real coffee.
Here.
Christmas or not.

 

[Liar]

It's fairly simple from an advertising perspective..

Put out a plain red cup with a green logo. Tell the public it's "the holiday cup". Then watch as reams and reams of paper are wasted trying "interpret" what this all means (oh and by the way, Starbucks gets free advertising with all that pontification).

It's fucking brilliant..

Yyyyyep. Everybody and their mother is talking about Starbucks now. Way to stay top-of-mind.

 

[mark_j]

Yyyyyep. Everybody and their mother is talking about Starbucks now. Way to stay top-of-mind.

They could have gone the other way too. Put out the red cup festooned with ribbons and bows and holly and trees and ornaments and whatnot. Stir well and wait 'til some jack wagon complains.

Viola!

Free advertising...

 

[Colonel Hogan]

People are offended by a plain red coffee cup..

They should be offended by the logo if they really want to be offended.
http://i.imgur.com/9L0c5lw.jpg

Make mine a Trenta!!

 

[removed9556]

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I thought this was some sporting tournament I hadn't heard of.

Nice!

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Starbucks killed all the non corporate, fun, inexpensive, and unconventional coffee bars in Boston.

Fuck Starbucks.

Dunkin Donuts may be engine cleaner, but it keeps Boston on the road, and awake.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I don't think there is a war on Christmas, especially from retailers. They LOVE Christmas. What, is it 40% of their annual business? What's not to love? They don't give a shit.
I find the cup thing interesting as a social phenomenon. I'm not a regular customer. I don't like the cup from a design perspective. It's dull an unimaginative. It is a clear departure from their previous holiday designs. It was done for a reason. The reason could be free advertising. A lot of people are talking about Starbucks, and that's always a good thing.
The Simon Malls put out an Ugly Santa experience display for kids to get their pictures taken with Santa. Some "Glacier" Experience. Extremely dull. Looked like a white clam shell. The evangelicals in Charlotte got them to take it down I think, but it is still up at Roosevelt Field. I'm offended by Santa shilling the week after Halloween.

They are still serving a Christmas blend according to some news that I have heard.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I cannot comment on Starbucks.


I have never been to one. I have never been to Dunkin' Donuts.


I have had McDonald's coffee, but I never got rich by spilling it on my lap...

 

[doowdniw]

Meh, they lost me when they covered her nipples with hair. And that was ages ago.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Meh, they lost me when they covered her nipples with hair. And that was ages ago.

Middle Ages?



Are these the Templars?

 

[RobDownSouth]

I cannot comment on Starbucks.


I have never been to one. I have never been to Dunkin' Donuts.


I have had McDonald's coffee, but I never got rich by spilling it on my lap...

American Thinker hasn't told 4est whether or not to be outraged about Starbucks yet.
*nods*

 

[mark_j]

American Thinker hasn't told 4est whether or not to be outraged about Starbucks yet.
*nods*

Salon given you your marching orders yet?