Starbucks
Coffee shop · Methuen Town ·
Signature roasts, light bites, WiFi, and cold foam drinks
Signature roasts, light bites, WiFi, and cold foam drinks
"Branches across the city were targeted after the daughter of a prominent local catering-company founder publicly criticized protesters; several locations had windows smashed and stores vandalized and were marked on a crowdsourced map with an anti-protester designation that exposed them to boycotts and attacks (even when some listings were labeled as hearsay)." - Andrew Genung
"A global coffeehouse brand's seasonal cup designs are defended as deserving year-round celebration; the argument suggests that festive holiday cup art should not be confined to a short season and that keeping the celebratory designs permanently would be preferable." - Hillary Dixler Canavan
"Both physical and electronic gift cards are offered." - Jenny G. Zhang
"Perceived as the sleeker, more design-conscious competitor in the coffee-brand rivalry, this chain has been associated with paper cups and a 'smooth' aesthetic that became an obvious cultural marker separating its customers from those who favored foam cups." - Jaya Saxena
"Disposable coffee-shop cups once served as the conspicuous, proudly brandished drinking vessel and status symbol for earlier generations; they were displayed as a fashionable marker of identity but proved to be less easy to dispose of than many assumed, revealing an environmental contradiction behind the trend." - Ellie Krupnick
