miércoles, 10 de marzo de 2010

Demand a Starbucks in Costa Rica??? WTF!


I'm trying to stay cool and not stop liking some of my contacts as they joined a group in Facebook called "Exige un starbucks en CR!!!" (demand a Starbucks in Costa Rica.) The description of the page in Spanish reads something like (my translation) "Starbucks opens a new store around the world every hour. It's about time to have our first Starbucks in Costa Rica." The reasons why the creation of this group results somewhat annoying for me are the following:

1-Many of my acquaintances that have joined the group have never been in a Starbucks!!! I have been in one. I like those 3/4 milk and sugar 1/4 coffee drinks, but it is not like I would demand (who, btw?) for a Starbucks here.
2- Costa Rica exports coffee to the world and it ranks among the best. It does not make any sense to me that some people would like to import a coffee shop with regular quality.
3- Since when did coffee shops became so popular among youngsters? I've been a socialite for three years now and I've seen the affluence of customers in coffee shops. I'm always about the youngest person there. Now, I know people who joined this group drink coffee, but they go to cheap places! I want to see them paying like $4 for a coffee that they usually get in $1.75. My guess is that the images of the Starbucks in every corner of the Big Apple - who does not want to imitate NY?, have gotten into these people minds until the point in which they have lost the sense of reality.

I'm not intimidated by American franchises. I'm a regular in Taco Bell and all, but we do not have real Mexican food anyways, so that's all right. But people around the world pay an absurd amount of money for our coffee and suddenly these kids are "demanding" -I can't get over the imperative nature of the statement, demanding Starbucks to come to Costa Rica.

Airheads.

1 comentario:

  1. There are some crazy, stupid and hilarious groups on FB... The key here is not taking'em seriously...

    No Starbucks will open in CR just because a group in FB says so... hahahaha so idiotic

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