{"id":5284,"date":"2012-07-18T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2012-07-18T03:11:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T07:11:46","slug":"the-starbucks-breakup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-starbucks-breakup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Starbucks Breakup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/071812_0656_TheStarbuck1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"692\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan A. Knee writes that New York&#8217;s love affair with Starbucks has turned sour. He juxtaposed the courtship years with the loveless middle age relationship that has now emerged. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Starbucks in NYC used to work to make you believe that you had left the city:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Comfortable chairs distracted from urban life.<\/li>\n<li>Cheap refills for discount hungry citizens.<\/li>\n<li>Well-stocked bathrooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Now however:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The chairs are gone, and many Starbucks&#8217; are now standing room only.<\/li>\n<li>Since your refill is only eligible if you drank your drink in the store, Starbucks is now moving to eliminate refills since people aren&#8217;t likely to finish their drinks in a store without sitting room.<\/li>\n<li>Starbucks no longer wants to be New York City&#8217;s public bathroom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps the reason for the change is that when it first entered the New York market Starbucks was a young chain looking to grow.<\/li>\n<li>But today New York&#8217;s stores represent just 1% of Starbucks&#8217; total stores.<\/li>\n<li>Luckily competitors are moving in to fill the gap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including how Starbucks used to make you forget how rude New Yorkers can be, how competitors are responding to Starbucks&#8217; transformation, the end of free Wi-Fi, and the rise of anti-Starbucks websites click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/culturebox\/2012\/07\/how_new_york_s_love_affair_with_starbucks_turned_sour_.html\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s a short, entertaining, and well-written article.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/culturebox\/2012\/07\/how_new_york_s_love_affair_with_starbucks_turned_sour_.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan A. Knee writes that New York&#8217;s love affair with Starbucks has turned sour. He juxtaposed the courtship years with the loveless middle age relationship that has now emerged. Highlights include: Starbucks in NYC used to work to make you believe that you had left the city: Comfortable chairs distracted from urban life. Cheap refills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/071812_0656_TheStarbuck1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5292,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions\/5292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}