[SamAdams76]

I have the same experience with the "bookstore" Starbucks. There is a Barnes & Noble near my house that houses a Starbucks. Actually they call it the Barnes & Noble coffeeshop but everything is the same as Starbucks. It's just that the Starbucks logo is replaced by B&N. The trendy set evidently believes a big-box bookstore like B&N (or Borders) is beneath them.

I also didn't mention my annoyance with the way Starbucks is turning into a mini-music store. Not that I mind them selling CDs but they never have anything normal there. It's always this soft-rock, easy-listening "critics favorite" crap like Alanis Morissette or some unlistenable jazz compiliation that was "culled" out of some rock star's personal collection. It's as if all the CDs are hand-picked by the same judges who hand out those Grammy awards.

[in hoc signo vinces]

Excellent observation.

[InvisibleChurch]

they also won't take starbucks gift cards either

[Frank_Discussion]

Actually, I mean B&N, not Borders, though there is a SB at the Woodlands Borders, IIRC.

[wardaddy]

All coffeeshops in the nicer parts of metro Nashville are magnets for libs and lesbos and cakers.

Most folks are snooty and aloof and not from here.

It sux.

Much like most bookstores.

I prefer gun stores and titty bars. My kind of folks.