Starbucks Closures. 300 Stores, 6700 Jobs - 2/3rds in the US. Business Down 69%

Out,_Vile_Jelly

McDonalds and Starbucks provide an essential service- free public toilets. No idea what they actually sell.

Cleaver

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

McDonalds and Starbucks provide an essential service- free public toilets. No idea what they actually sell.

Burgers and Coffee respectively.

And in case you're wondering: Hoover sell vacuum cleaners, Ford make cars, Coke make carbonated drinks and Tops Tiles sell Tiles.

SamIAm_3-2

Cleaver wrote: »

Burgers and Coffee respectively.

And in case you're wondering: Hoover sell vacuum cleaners, Ford make cars, Coke make carbonated drinks and Tops Tiles sell Tiles.

Not Tops then?

That's where I've been going wrong. I keep on going there for clothes and spinning things. All they had was this weird ceramic stuff!

Cleaver

SamIAm wrote: »

Not Tops then?

That's where I've been going wrong. I keep on going there for clothes and spinning things. All they had was this weird ceramic stuff!

You'll be looking for Tile's Tops. A clothing emporium run by Dave Tile that mainly sells jumpers, t-shirts and other top-half-of-body garments.

neverdespairgirl

baileysbattlebus wrote: »

Generally people don't starve to death in the US. They may get more in the way of benefits than you think.

Medical care, though, is an absolute nightmare.

wigglebeena

!!!!!!? wrote: »

McD's breakfasts rule. And their coffee is pretty decent. Three quid for a double sausage egg McMuffin with a hash brown and cup of coffee,

Burger King's hash browns are massively, massively superior to MaccyD's. Instead of a limp, unsalted half-raw patty, you get a decent-sized bag of chunky little round HBs, well-cooked and well-salted. Mmmmm.

penguine

iB1 wrote: »

Also, I remember reading a story about two years ago about Starbucks opening coffee houses literally opposite each other, as they found people were too lazy to make it across to the other side of the road.

I read a story in the Onion a few years back about a starbucks that had opened inside the toilet at a starbucks. It actually seemed quite plausible.

MiserlyMartin

iB1 wrote: »

I'm not really surprised. When times are hard, the first thing that disappears are the luxuries. Expensive coffee is exactly the kind of thing that people will want to cut back on.

Also, I remember reading a story about two years ago about Starbucks opening coffee houses literally opposite each other, as they found people were too lazy to make it across to the other side of the road. It's typical over-expansion, and in the process, it put many other independent coffee places out of business, which is a real shame.

Well they have met their come uppance then, because when these stores have shut and the recession has passed, perhaps the small independant shops can open up again.

fc123

MiserlyMartin wrote: »

Well they have met their come uppance then, because when these stores have shut and the recession has passed, perhaps the small independant shops can open up again.

Not for a few years they won't.

Rents have got to fall to market value again.......to the value that they were before Starbucks et al pushed them up during the coffee shop wars plus, as soon as commercial LL hear 'coffee shop'. they whack the rent up.

BTW, is there a bored blokey competition going on trying to post the wittiest, most succint soundbite...on every board??

Here I am, facing desperate times (linked to coffee shops paying silly, high rents) and every thread is turning into a Morecambe and Wise sketch.

Bring back !!!!!! and Generali with some facts please........

ETA...Not that I am a misery gutz or anything...but it's a little OCD. ~(Pls note the yung txt spk)

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

fc123 wrote: »

Not for a few years they won't.

Rents have got to fall to market value again.......to the value that they were before Starbucks et al pushed them up during the coffee shop wars plus, as soon as commercial LL hear 'coffee shop'. they whack the rent up.

BTW, is there a bored blokey competition going on trying to post the wittiest, most succint soundbite...on every board??

Here I am, facing desperate times (linked to coffee shops paying silly, high rents) and every thread is turning into a Morecambe and Wise sketch.

Bring back !!!!!! and Generali with some facts please........

ETA...Not that I am a misery gutz or anything...but it's a little OCD. ~(Pls note the yung txt spk)

If we were all as sad, depressed and/or anally retentive as some of the posters on here, it would be a very sad world indeed. A bit of humour helps to ease the pain of the normal day to day bad news we are constantly bombarded with.