The Bass Pro Shop
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<div class="IPBDescription">Is it the end of days?</div>So, today, I was out with my grandfather. He needed to pick up some bullets from the Bass Pro Shop, and asked me if I'd like to come along, so I did.
Looking at the building, you wouldn't guess that it was a store. There were hundreds of dead animals mounted on the walls, deer antlers in an arch above the entrance way. The entire place looked like a gigantic log cabin.
Anyway, walking about in the store, I found a Starbucks, and was puzzled. The Bass Pro Shop is the last place I'd ever expect to find Starbucks, but it was there, and I had my latte while I looked at guns and fishing boats.
Looking at the building, you wouldn't guess that it was a store. There were hundreds of dead animals mounted on the walls, deer antlers in an arch above the entrance way. The entire place looked like a gigantic log cabin.
Anyway, walking about in the store, I found a Starbucks, and was puzzled. The Bass Pro Shop is the last place I'd ever expect to find Starbucks, but it was there, and I had my latte while I looked at guns and fishing boats.
Comments
I'm not sure what's so special about it being in front of this shop.
Someone must have thought it was a place with high traffic that was not close to any other coffee vendor.
This is also why you can find Starbucks across from each other. I don't know why someone would want to open a second one across the street, but there must have been some logic... Or just someone with too much money that thought it would be funny.
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Nothing to see here, move along. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
It just seems out of place is all I'm getting at.
Still, same thing applies. Maybe the owner of the gun shop place likes coffee.
you live in SEATTLE, that doesn't count. (for those not aware, Starbucks originated in Seattle) Just like it doesn't count that I can say I knew a place that had 4 in a 2 block radius (3 of them with in a 1 block radius), but I live in NYC <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
<!--quoteo(post=1679263:date=May 22 2008, 11:30 PM:name=DiscoZombie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DiscoZombie @ May 22 2008, 11:30 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1679263"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->yes, one usually associates Starbucks with yuppies, sitting there reading RSS feeds on their powerbooks on lunch break from their jobs as stock brokers. I concur that it sounds strange that one was in a hunting supply store. I would pay for a photo of a slack-jawed yokel wearing a tattered straw hat, boomstick strapped to his back, sipping his Starbucks through the gap in his chewing tobacco rotted teeth. especially if he was wearing glasses and reading the New York Times while he did so.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now that would be a good picture.
However, tbh, Starbucks is simply the McDs of coffee. True, their image is one thing, but Coffee is such a wide spread American phenomenon (and was so well before Starbucks), that people from every walk of life drink the stuff constantly.
This was my point. It's not that "they" pulled the across the street stunt. If it is a franchise the owners of those two shops are in direct competition with each other and those owners decided to do so, but if the "they" is referring to Balzac as a whole, they did not have any part in the placement of those shops other than to say "Sure, start your own. Pay us money and you can use our brand name." or whatever franchised companies do.
lawl