Comments on: Starbucks, Seattle, Pike Place http://www.idleminutes.com/2006/11/starbucks-seattle-pike-place/ An Illustrated Journal Featuring The Artwork of Don West Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:32:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Don West http://www.idleminutes.com/2006/11/starbucks-seattle-pike-place/#comment-78 Don West Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:50:42 +0000 http://www.idleminutes.com/index.php/2006/11/07/starbucks-seattle-pike-place/#comment-78 Hi Karen, Thanks for stopping by! I would have included more at the bottom of the drawing but it was just cars parked parallel in front of the store. There were more people too...lots more. I decided to just draw the part that was "the store". I was surprised at how plain it was on the outside at first look. But the whole street is that way, sort of old and crowded. In thinking about it I realized, as a start-up, they may not have really had a complete concept of what it was all going to turn into anyway. So, the "look and feel" and the "branding strategy" wasn't a big time issue at that point. They just wanted a coffee store on a really busy, bustling street and that just happend to be the way that little space for rent looked. WalMart started pretty much the same way. Both companys' histories are really interesting. By the way, a lot of people have migrated to Seattle's Best Coffee as their brand choice, so as to be anti-Starbucks. However I learned that Starbucks bought Seattle's Best a little while back |-/ What profiteth Seattle's Best, profiteth Starbucks. Ha ha ha (evil laugh) their coming to get you and your money too! Hi Karen,
Thanks for stopping by! I would have included more at the bottom of the drawing but it was just cars parked parallel in front of the store. There were more people too…lots more. I decided to just draw the part that was “the store”.

I was surprised at how plain it was on the outside at first look. But the whole street is that way, sort of old and crowded. In thinking about it I realized, as a start-up, they may not have really had a complete concept of what it was all going to turn into anyway. So, the “look and feel” and the “branding strategy” wasn’t a big time issue at that point. They just wanted a coffee store on a really busy, bustling street and that just happend to be the way that little space for rent looked.

WalMart started pretty much the same way. Both companys’ histories are really interesting.

By the way, a lot of people have migrated to Seattle’s Best Coffee as their brand choice, so as to be anti-Starbucks. However I learned that Starbucks bought Seattle’s Best a little while back |-/

What profiteth Seattle’s Best, profiteth Starbucks. Ha ha ha (evil laugh) their coming to get you and your money too!

]]> By: karen Sandstrom http://www.idleminutes.com/2006/11/starbucks-seattle-pike-place/#comment-77 karen Sandstrom Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:46:32 +0000 http://www.idleminutes.com/index.php/2006/11/07/starbucks-seattle-pike-place/#comment-77 Cool! I know it's beginning to be popular to hate Starbucks for being everywhere, sorta like WalMart, but I still like it anyway. (Starbucks, not WalMart.) I like the idea that there's a throwback feel to the original store. Cool! I know it’s beginning to be popular to hate Starbucks for being everywhere, sorta like WalMart, but I still like it anyway. (Starbucks, not WalMart.) I like the idea that there’s a throwback feel to the original store.

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