So, Now We Want Starbucks Back?

"Cities, Customers Launch 'Save Our Starbucks' Efforts"
The Wall Street Journal (July 19, 2008)

"Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations it wants to shutter, a phenomenon is taking hold: the Save Our Starbucks campaign.

"In towns as small as Bloomfield, N.M., and metropolises as large as New York, customers and city officials are starting to write letters, place phone calls, circulate petitions and otherwise plead with the coffee giant to change its mind.

" 'Now that it's going away, we're devastated,' said Kate Walker, a facilities manager for SunGard Financial Systems, a software company, who recently learned of a store closing in New York City...."

As the song said, "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got
Till its gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." I've never been to a Starbucks myself, but I can understand someone feeling bereft when a favorite coffee shop closes.