Now, as Starbucks prepares to close 600 of its stores nationwide, Cedar Rapids was hit again - the Lindall Mall Starbucks is on the closing list. Bastards. Fear not, I looked up Starbucks in the CR yellow pages online and found six more stores listed.
In a related story from May, there seems to be some hub-bub over a retro Starbuck's logo that's being used for one of their recent promotions.
The logo, which is a replica of the one the chain used when it opened its first store in Pike Place in Seattle in 1971, comes from an old sixteenth-century Norse woodcut and features a bare-chested woman with a mermaid-style fish tail that is split in half. "The woman is actually a siren, not a mermaid, which in Greek mythology lures people to them with their beautiful songs, and then kills them," said Mr Dice. Dice and his right-wing, religious group needs to concentrate on matters - that matter. I dashed out to Starbucks today and lo and behold, the promotion is still going on. I picked up the last two mugs on the shelf (see above) with the retro logos - one for me and one for my brother. Score! Definitely collector items.
Starbucks insists the logo is only being used on a certain kind of coffee and some of the mugs it sells. Howard Schultz, who bought Starbucks in 1982, described the emblem in his memoirs as “bare-breasted and Rubenesque; [it] was supposed to be as seductive as coffee itself”.
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