Sunday, January 13, 2008

The Disintegration of Western Civilization Part 1: Somewhere There's a Starbucks With a Starbucks In It

The Disintegration of Western Civilization Part 1: Somewhere There's a Starbucks With a Starbucks In It


Somewhere there's gotta be a Starbucks with a Starbucks in it. I mean like one of those Starbucks as its own place full-size restaurant things with one of those mini-Starbucks-in-an-alcove-things that they put in other stores in it.


Allow me to explain. I am writing this at the Jimmy John's in a strip mall. In the same strip mall at one end is a Meijer, a groceries and retail shopping in one place store not entirely unlike a Wal-Mart Supercenter; I don't think Meijer has spread much past its home in Michigan and some of the adjoining states. In this Meijer is one of those Starbucks alcoves.


At the other end of the strip mall is a Target. This target has replaced the normal Target snackbar area with a Starbucks alcove.


Two of them. In the same strip mall. There's only one place left to go.


Somewhere there's a Starbucks with a Starbucks in it.

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