A plague of mermaids

[mirrorshard]

So. The mermaid has come to town. And the good coffeeshop - the small friendly one, with the comfy sofas and the acoustic evenings and CDs by local bands playing all day - has closed down. Vagabonds, it was called - not only did they do good coffee, but most times it was a good, happy crowd of young people, and the local special needs school used to take their students on a trip out there every so often. (The management had offered them all-day happy hour prices.)

Comments

[harald387.livejournal.com]

That's the way it goes, sadly.

Fortunately, Starbuck's will never win out over Tim Horton's in Canada.

Yay!

-K

[vashti.livejournal.com]

Shit. I'm sorry to hear that.

You might want to see if there are any other decent coffee shops around the town to visit, before the invader multiplies like pox.

[raggedrags.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I just got back from Spain and was miserable enough already. I was always quietly proud that we'd resisted Starbucks this long.

Hrumph.

[mr-kristopher.livejournal.com]

My favorite bar/night club was recently kicked out of a space they were renting in a building that Starbucks bought. I don't blame Starbucks, though. I blame their customers. Without the cash flow, Starbucks would still be lonely coffee shop in Seattle, Washington.

[imageoficculus.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to read about this, having gone through very much the same thing with two of my favorite dives in recent months. I'm starting to believe that Starbucks' recursive spawning is a sign of the apocalypse, but as of yet, I've been unable to obtain a research grant to help prove it.