Comments on: Richmond coffee fight brews in S.F. http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2007/08/inner-richmond-starbucks-resistance/ Rants and Raves on Espresso Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:10:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: TheShot http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2007/08/inner-richmond-starbucks-resistance/#comment-3522 TheShot Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:55:06 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2007/08/inner-richmond-starbucks-resistance/#comment-3522 While we clearly agree in sentiment -- every downtown in America looks pretty much interchangeable with every other these days -- we don't exactly agree in execution. Perhaps the core problem are consumers who willingly, using their own dollars, blight their own neighborhoods on the receiving end of national marketing campaigns. But making the limitation of consumer choice the foundation of such a campaign is waging a losing battle -- just as it is a lost cause to use the legal system in an attempt to prevent people from doing something stupid (the proliferation of ridiculous warning labels aside). While we clearly agree in sentiment — every downtown in America looks pretty much interchangeable with every other these days — we don’t exactly agree in execution.

Perhaps the core problem are consumers who willingly, using their own dollars, blight their own neighborhoods on the receiving end of national marketing campaigns. But making the limitation of consumer choice the foundation of such a campaign is waging a losing battle — just as it is a lost cause to use the legal system in an attempt to prevent people from doing something stupid (the proliferation of ridiculous warning labels aside).

]]> By: jesse fink http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2007/08/inner-richmond-starbucks-resistance/#comment-3520 jesse fink Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:02:35 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2007/08/inner-richmond-starbucks-resistance/#comment-3520 I just read this comment on "how this is not about the integrity of the whole city"...you missed the point of this whole case. It IS about our city, our neighborhoods. Do you want the neighborhoods of S.F. to end up looking like Long Island, Dallas, Burlingame...that's what'll happen before your eyes if we let it. We have a unique city and it WILL loose it's individuality if we let it. I just read this comment on “how this is not about the integrity of the whole city”…you missed the point of this whole case. It IS about our city, our neighborhoods.
Do you want the neighborhoods of S.F. to end up looking like Long Island, Dallas,
Burlingame…that’s what’ll happen before your eyes if we let it. We have a unique city and it WILL loose it’s individuality if we let it.

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