Is it just me, or is Starbucks set on world domination?
I was driving down the main street where I live on a mission to the grocery store for a missing ingredient for my wife; and as I passed the Mecca of capitalism, the Target shopping mall, I noticed a sign reading, “Coming Soon – Starbucks.” As I stopped at the light just 100 yards down from the sign, I looked over to see that the small bookshop on the opposite corner was now a Starbucks. I continued towards my destination and noticed that in every mini-mall along the boulevard had a Starbucks coffee café tucked nice and warm inside with the large green shield marking its territory.
My fear began to surface upon entering the grocery store to and seeing that familiar green shield glowing above a crowd hollow-eyed people muttering words like “grande with room,” “extra scorching hot”, and “venti.” There blocking my path was a miniature version of Starbucks! It stood there like earth-toned monument to caffeine supremacy. I averted my gaze lest I fall pray to its power. I made my way to the bakery section, as an overly cheerful voice asked me if I wanted a coffee drink, (Starbucks has made even buying coffee politically correct). After finding what I came for I walked around the back of the store just to avoid going past it again.
Starbucks’ mission of conquest doesn’t stop at the invasion of markets, malls and airports, oh no, Starbucks is now producing movies! Not just any type of movie either, but a family movie about a little girl winning a spelling bee. Why you may ask? Consider the sizes of coffee you can order at a Starbucks – what language is “venti” from? They have contributed new words to the English language why not produce a movie to help you pronounce and spell them. The hidden agenda is clear, start building devotees among the young, keep the cycle going.
Not since the scare of the seventies when plans for Walt Disney World were splashed across newspapers all over the world had the planet feared a large corporate monster engulfing them. The fear of a company run by a mouse, a bad tempered duck, and a dog in over-sized overalls spouting family values and the American dream struck them to core with dread. This fear spawned a novel based on this concept, called Westworld which naturally turned into a hit film. It was a great idea, a big theme park where you could interact with androids, kill them or have sex with a babe you could never get in your life. It would be like playing World of Warcraft, but you could really die. In the late eighties when mouse and his team broke ground on Tokyo Disneyland, and were looking into a nice central spot in Europe, the world truly believed that it would be a Disney World after all. However, the low sales from Euro Disney halted the mouse and posse’s world dominance.
But secretly in the shadows a forgotten goddess and her minions were waiting.
In 1971, Seattle Washington, in a small market the empire had begun. By the middle of the eighties while Disney was breaking ground Walt Disney World, Starbucks was beginning to expand into the North West coast. While Mickey and his band were setting up stakes in Tokyo, Starbucks was inching farther south to the land of gold and movie stars! In the nineties, the goddess was fully in control of the West Coast and began looking hungrily eastward. What followed were agreements with Barnes and Nobles, airports and the large grocery market chains. Where the mouse had failed, Stepford wives like baristas and Arabica beans succeeded. Not since the Nazi Blitzkrieg, has there been such a precise surgical strike against freewill.
“You’re just being paranoid,” I hear you say, well here are some facts to browse while you sip your grande, double-decaf mocha with whip:
Stats:
1Coffee houses in all 50 states and 36 countries; 9260 total.
2”The Company's objective is to establish Starbucks as the most recognized and respected brand in the world.
To achieve this goal, the Company plans to continue to rapidly expand its retail operations, grow its specialty sales and other operations, and selectively pursue opportunities to leverage the Starbucks brand through the introduction of new products and the development of new distribution channels.”
Let me leave you with this thought as you drive to your job or school, count the number of Starbucks you see in a day, and then tell me it is not a plan for world domination.
1 and 2 were both taken from the Starbucks website at www.starbucks.com
I was driving down the main street where I live on a mission to the grocery store for a missing ingredient for my wife; and as I passed the Mecca of capitalism, the Target shopping mall, I noticed a sign reading, “Coming Soon – Starbucks.” As I stopped at the light just 100 yards down from the sign, I looked over to see that the small bookshop on the opposite corner was now a Starbucks. I continued towards my destination and noticed that in every mini-mall along the boulevard had a Starbucks coffee café tucked nice and warm inside with the large green shield marking its territory.
My fear began to surface upon entering the grocery store to and seeing that familiar green shield glowing above a crowd hollow-eyed people muttering words like “grande with room,” “extra scorching hot”, and “venti.” There blocking my path was a miniature version of Starbucks! It stood there like earth-toned monument to caffeine supremacy. I averted my gaze lest I fall pray to its power. I made my way to the bakery section, as an overly cheerful voice asked me if I wanted a coffee drink, (Starbucks has made even buying coffee politically correct). After finding what I came for I walked around the back of the store just to avoid going past it again.
Starbucks’ mission of conquest doesn’t stop at the invasion of markets, malls and airports, oh no, Starbucks is now producing movies! Not just any type of movie either, but a family movie about a little girl winning a spelling bee. Why you may ask? Consider the sizes of coffee you can order at a Starbucks – what language is “venti” from? They have contributed new words to the English language why not produce a movie to help you pronounce and spell them. The hidden agenda is clear, start building devotees among the young, keep the cycle going.
Not since the scare of the seventies when plans for Walt Disney World were splashed across newspapers all over the world had the planet feared a large corporate monster engulfing them. The fear of a company run by a mouse, a bad tempered duck, and a dog in over-sized overalls spouting family values and the American dream struck them to core with dread. This fear spawned a novel based on this concept, called Westworld which naturally turned into a hit film. It was a great idea, a big theme park where you could interact with androids, kill them or have sex with a babe you could never get in your life. It would be like playing World of Warcraft, but you could really die. In the late eighties when mouse and his team broke ground on Tokyo Disneyland, and were looking into a nice central spot in Europe, the world truly believed that it would be a Disney World after all. However, the low sales from Euro Disney halted the mouse and posse’s world dominance.
But secretly in the shadows a forgotten goddess and her minions were waiting.
In 1971, Seattle Washington, in a small market the empire had begun. By the middle of the eighties while Disney was breaking ground Walt Disney World, Starbucks was beginning to expand into the North West coast. While Mickey and his band were setting up stakes in Tokyo, Starbucks was inching farther south to the land of gold and movie stars! In the nineties, the goddess was fully in control of the West Coast and began looking hungrily eastward. What followed were agreements with Barnes and Nobles, airports and the large grocery market chains. Where the mouse had failed, Stepford wives like baristas and Arabica beans succeeded. Not since the Nazi Blitzkrieg, has there been such a precise surgical strike against freewill.
“You’re just being paranoid,” I hear you say, well here are some facts to browse while you sip your grande, double-decaf mocha with whip:
Stats:
1Coffee houses in all 50 states and 36 countries; 9260 total.
2”The Company's objective is to establish Starbucks as the most recognized and respected brand in the world.
To achieve this goal, the Company plans to continue to rapidly expand its retail operations, grow its specialty sales and other operations, and selectively pursue opportunities to leverage the Starbucks brand through the introduction of new products and the development of new distribution channels.”
Let me leave you with this thought as you drive to your job or school, count the number of Starbucks you see in a day, and then tell me it is not a plan for world domination.
1 and 2 were both taken from the Starbucks website at www.starbucks.com
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