Something is coming to town…My town…and it’s not Santa. It’s Starbucks. My oh my, what a surprise. We live in a place that is on the outer edges of a large metropolitan area, far enough away from bigger suburbs to be affordable, but not so far away that we miss all of the amenities of living in a big metro area. And truth be told, we already had a Starbucks in town, inside of the local Dominick’s grocery store. I hardly ever went there, though, mainly because that store’s prices are too high and we can get groceries a lot cheaper elsewhere. Anyway, imagine our shock as we drove by a certain area in our town and noticed a construction site with a big “Starbucks coming soon” sign.
Like the opening of an Apple retail store about a 1/2 hr. away, having a Starbucks so nearby is definitely a double-edged sword. In other words, dangerous.
And then I wonder whether my excitement at Starbucks coming to town shows just how shallow I am.
Are there no decent local coffee shops nearby?
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Mark, there is one other coffee shop, actually. It is across the street from the train station I usually walk to in the morning. It just opened about three months ago. It is a local shop. Unfortunately the coffee isn’t that great, otherwise I’d love to support it more by going there regularly. It it was like Cafe Espresso Royale there in Urbana-Champaign, you better believe I’d pick that over Starbucks!
Well, I certainly shan’t ask you to drink bad coffee then.
Can you believe little ol C-U now has THREE regular Starbucks (Urbana, Campus and north Champaign) as well as TWO inside other stores. My my, what is the world coming to?? I still don’t know what we need 5 starbucks and three walmarts for.