I hope that whoever in corporate is making these decisions gets the huge amount of hell fire coming to them. Because baristas are pouring out the doors, soon they will have no one to run their stores. And that's if the customers don't stop coming first. Many regulars come to sit and have a nice cup of coffee with their friends, sit down with a whole group, or come there for a nice place to get away from their house to a calming atmosphere with amazing smells to get their work done. And that's just the atmosphere, I haven't even gotten to them discontinuing many favorites or good items that customers love.

Local coffee shops, now is your chance to take back your towns. Starbucks has gotten far to big for its britches and is fucking up in so many major ways. Poach their tired baristas and treat them right, and those baristas will have other baristas flooding to your doorstep with applications in hand. And the regulars who love to see those baristas when they discover they are all gone will come to your store to visit them, and maybe they might even make your store their new Starbucks. But those regulars will tell others about how good your place is, and all the sudden your local Starbucks is closed and your shop is thriving. Take back our space and cleanse it of that horrid, capitalistic, no shits given corporation.