Comments on: Bring me java, bring me joy: Starbucks or Peet’s? http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2007/10/4644/starbucks_or_peets/ A daily newsmagazine of campus and culture for Northwestern University. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:30:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ian http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2007/10/4644/starbucks_or_peets/comment-page-1/#comment-46500 Ian Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:22:33 +0000 http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2007/10/4644/starbucks_or_peets/#comment-46500 Why is it that Americans like everything the same every time.. I.E., why do they love the chain store so much. Isn't interesting, unique, and different more fun and interesting? Just wondering.... I love Starbucks too - but it does make me think sometimes that I'm being managed by the big corporate brother.... Not like the coffee shops in Europe that they were modeled after at all. Why is it that Americans like everything the same every time.. I.E., why do they love the chain store so much. Isn’t interesting, unique, and different more fun and interesting? Just wondering…. I love Starbucks too – but it does make me think sometimes that I’m being managed by the big corporate brother…. Not like the coffee shops in Europe that they were modeled after at all.

]]> By: James Chapin http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2007/10/4644/starbucks_or_peets/comment-page-1/#comment-25137 James Chapin Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:51:12 +0000 http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2007/10/4644/starbucks_or_peets/#comment-25137 We forgot a category: <strong>Community Integration</strong> Starbucks has done a bang-up job at bringing more and more of its precisely uniform product to increasingly uniform neighborhoods. Vague motions toward intellectual fulfillment bring an irresistible air of contentment to much of the continental U.S. Minimal spending on the lower, darker end of the supply chain allows the corporation to put more love and care into its real goal: to serve You. As for Peet's, they attempt also to eat into the social and economic fabric of their communities, only with less ruthless efficiency. Edge: Starbucks. We forgot a category:

Community Integration
Starbucks has done a bang-up job at bringing more and more of its precisely uniform product to increasingly uniform neighborhoods. Vague motions toward intellectual fulfillment bring an irresistible air of contentment to much of the continental U.S. Minimal spending on the lower, darker end of the supply chain allows the corporation to put more love and care into its real goal: to serve You.
As for Peet’s, they attempt also to eat into the social and economic fabric of their communities, only with less ruthless efficiency. Edge: Starbucks.

]]> By: Charles http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2007/10/4644/starbucks_or_peets/comment-page-1/#comment-25125 Charles Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:45:35 +0000 http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2007/10/4644/starbucks_or_peets/#comment-25125 http://wildcat-watch.com/blog/?p=90 http://wildcat-watch.com/blog/?p=90

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