30,000 stores!!!!!!!!!!!!

a few weeks ago i read in the paper the following facts:
metro atlanta has over 136 starbucks stores.
starbucks is planning to build 200 more starbucks in atlanta in the next few years.
starbucks also is planning to expand from 10,500 stores worldwide to more than 30,000 stores.

nooooo!!!!!!! all those green and white cups! is it really that yummy? or hard to make your own coffee at home? does everyone need to learn to speak starbuckian? why does tall mean small? where has all of our authenticity, creativity, eccentricity gone? does no one notice we are all becoming the same?

and 30,000 stores!!!!!!!!!! oh no! do we have room for all of them? are we going to have to sacrifice diners and denists' offices so that the starbucks can have the best locations? are they going to put a starbucks in pratt, kansas??????

pratt is an old-time small town in the middle of kansas and where my father grew up. the air is sweet there, you can stand in a wheat field and hear nothing but the wheat, and you can go to one of the two bars in town and run into someone who knows your daddy- it's a good spot. it has a population of approximately 6,570 people.

phew, i just checked www.starbucks.com- there are no starbucks in pratt, kansas! that's the most refreshing thing i've ever heard.

i want to move there.

ok, i feel better.

http://www.prattkan.com/