HenryMystic
Well-Known Member
Do you promise Spirit? I could use an espresso or cider right now.Carry on. If this thread hits 100 pages, Starbucks is sending you all a years-supply of coffee for free!
Do you promise Spirit? I could use an espresso or cider right now.Carry on. If this thread hits 100 pages, Starbucks is sending you all a years-supply of coffee for free!
. The Emporium is a giant WoD outlet that has swallowed half of MSUSA ... yet because it sells Disney-branded (expletive deleted) it somehow is OK to you?The Emporium is not a standard Disney Store found round the world. If you think that, you haven't been in one or the other.
Yes, because serving a brand of coffee is the exact same thing as opening an entire location of that brand of coffee.
WHY?!?! How is quality coffee and a wider variety of food items run by better trained CMs in a nicely themed enviornment bad?
You know the answer is 'just because I say it is' ... and that's just not how rational, functioning adults behave.
And why on Earth hasn't someone here changed the INCORRECT headline that keeps fomenting even more irrational and ignorant posts?
Is there a way to change a thread title? If I could I certainly would!
It's hard to do when flawless people keep liking my post and pressed people keep quoting it.If this discussion bothers you don't click the link. This what discussion forums are for.
The Emporium is not a standard Disney Store found round the world. If you think that, you haven't been in one or the other.
Yes, because serving a brand of coffee is the exact same thing as opening an entire location of that brand of coffee.
Is there a way to change a thread title? If I could I certainly would!
There's two threads on this topic on the front page of DIS I daren't open for fear of my cerebral cortex melting...I could use something much stronger.
I think this thread goes down as the absolute worst most embarassing that I have seen since joining the site in 2008.
It's a bunch of people with facts being told 'we don't care, poopyheads, we hates the Starbucks coffee because it interferes with our ability to snort the Pixie Dust' ... just effing amazing.
Spirit, you're a smart guy. Please tell me you see some middle ground here.
It's not all "STARBUCKS DRINKY GOOD" and "LOSE BAKERY CRUSHING BAD."
The middle ground is ambivalence: Coffee might be improved, but this is yet another step toward the standardization of the park.
Dare I say it? Starbucks is basically a trendy Walmart. Along with McDonald's, these stores/shops are largely responsible for the homogenization of the American landscape -- you know, you go to Miami and see the same crap you see in Northern Virginia which is the same crap you see in San Antonio, etc. I think that's lousy, and to see that homogenization introduced into MK is regrettable IMO. It may be themed, but it's still homogenization.
Now you may like Starbucks products better than Walmart's. Sure Starbucks has the suburband middle-class status symbol thing going for it, but other than that...it's just more Disney outsourcing, more lazy problem-solving.
Early summer here in Fl is like March lolIt's all about presentation. If WDW had announced "Starbucks to be sold at the Main Street Bakery", then the reaction would have been considerably subdued.
Instead, what was announced was:
The opening line in the announcement is:
It is a "Starbucks location", not the Main Street Bakery selling Starbucks.
Again quoting from the announcement:
And:
Where I'm from, "early summer" is June. I'm not sure why they need 5 months to make changes to sell Starbucks coffee, pastries, and sandwiches. I'm guessing (just a guess) that they had some rather extensive renovations planned.
Given the surprisingly strong reaction and the length of the closure, I wonder if they will adjust their plans.
I'm sure they thought everybody loves Starbucks. What they failed to consider is that Starbucks is the antithesis of what WDW fans like to think Main Street USA represents. I'm not talking about what MSUSA actually is; I'm talking about what it means to many devoted WDW fans. It's all about presentation and WDW botched this one.
Stop getting on people's cases because WDW dropped the ball on this one.
We are talking about corporate America. A land of nothing but McDonalds, Walmarts and Starbucks. Yet you forget that Disney is the biggest corporate monster in the entire world. People use this same argument against Disney everyday. Most recently with the possible standardization of the Star Wars series. I find it ironic Disney fans are worried about Starbuks doing to Disney what Disney has been doing to everything it's touched since it's inception.
I think that's lousy, and to see that homogenization introduced into MK is regrettable IMO. It may be themed, but it's still homogenization.
And I've never been a fan of Disney cloning MKs to the far corners of the earth.
However, there isn't a MK on the corner of every street. The same can't be said of Starbucks.
Incidentally, you assume that I'm a fan of Disney media empire. I'm not.
Spirit, you're a smart guy.
Please tell me you see some middle ground here.
It's not all "STARBUCKS DRINKY GOOD" and "LOSE BAKERY CRUSHING BAD."
The middle ground is ambivalence: Coffee might be improved, but this is yet another step toward the standardization of the park.
Dare I say it? Starbucks is basically a trendy Walmart. Along with McDonald's, these stores/shops are largely responsible for the homogenization of the American landscape -- you know, you go to Miami and see the same crap you see in Northern Virginia which is the same crap you see in San Antonio, etc. I think that's lousy, and to see that homogenization introduced into MK is regrettable IMO. It may be themed, but it's still homogenization.
Now you may like Starbucks products better than Walmart's. Sure Starbucks has the suburband middle-class status symbol thing going for it, but other than that...it's just more Disney outsourcing, more lazy problem-solving.
Too late man, this is all your fault![]()
Those threads have generally stopped a lot sooner than this one ... this one will keep going ... maybe I should make something up and start a thread just to get people's eyes off this one?![]()
Go with a monorail expansion. Works every time.
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