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Market research for a major Canadian coffeehouse chain indicates that their customers believe people who go to Starbucks are pretentious, stuck-up, etc. etc.

In your experience, do people choose or avoid a coffee place based on their personality type?

Arthur Johnson, aka "fresco"
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Trust me, in NYC, the pretentious people who are stuck up, don't go to Starbucks, Olive Garden maybe, but not Starbucks. :biggrin:

Robert Buxbaum

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I grab my coffee from the 'guy outside my office, passing-over the 'bux --oops ''*bucks" served at the Commissary -- Oh Well !!!!

anil

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since i can't drink real caffeine without gettinf horribly agitated(husband calls it psychotic) i don't visit any of them.

if they provide me with a fresh brewed decaf coffee ( and can prove it is decaf) i will follow them anywhere...

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Nothing.  Do not quote me on this.

 

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