{"id":4199,"date":"2009-02-12T06:39:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T11:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2009-02-12T06:39:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T11:39:27","slug":"i-mean-good-luck-with-that-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"I Mean, Good Luck With That And All&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but isn&#8217;t it possible that the time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/east\/39470532.html\">demonstrate to save your Starbucks<\/a> would be <em>before <\/em>it is slated for closing?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Customer movements to &#8220;save our Starbucks&#8221; have sprung up in cities large and small since last July, when the Seattle-based chain began closing hundreds of its stores. While online petition drives and phone calls to the company are common, public demonstrations are rare.In Fresno, Calif., an anonymous supporter created an elaborate display with a &#8220;Save Our Starbucks&#8221; sign plastered outside an empty storefront next to the doomed coffee shop.<\/p>\n<p>At a Starbucks in Rockport, Texas, a customer learned that managers from the corporate office were scheduled to visit the store and announce that it was closing. Upon hearing this, the customer, Dee Parker, mobilized a group of residents to show up and protest the closing when the managers arrived. Starbucks officials found out about the plot and moved the meeting to another location.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the company announced that it was shuttering 300 &#8220;underperforming&#8221; stores, including the one in the historic Grand Garage building in Stillwater. It&#8217;s been there for 10 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, in good news, the former Starbucks on West Seventh in Saint Paul just re-opened as a Dunn Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a net gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but isn&#8217;t it possible that the time to demonstrate to save your Starbucks would be before it is slated for closing? Customer movements to &#8220;save our Starbucks&#8221; have sprung up in cities large and small since last July, when the Seattle-based chain began closing hundreds of its stores. While online petition drives and phone calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}