Comments on: Starbucks Challenge 2.0

By: manolo

manolo — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:59:25 +0000

starbucks has always overcharged everyone for a simple cup of joe. mom and pops are vanishing for starbucks eats them all…. free enterprise??
i went to a local mom and pop and had a better cup
(fair trade) than starbucks burnt/ocult blends

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:53:07 +0000

Starbucks is not an ethical company, which is why they do not actually keep their promise about Fair Trade Coffeee. They are probably delighted to have this attention, you know, “any publicity is good publicity”. I think we should be finding locally owned coffee shops in our area that already or are willing to carry Fair Trade/Organic/Shade Grown coffee and publish their websites and locations, and then go drink coffee there. Starbucks is over.

By: aussie

aussie — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

ok… so just for the dummy record… i didn’t understand what it meant that they needed to “french press” a cup of coffee… so i never really took part in the challenge! i now understand what it means… so next starbucks visit… i’m gonna ask for a cup of free tradde coffee!!! YAY!

By: Robert 'Groby' Blum

Robert 'Groby' Blum — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

If you can get people to tag their posts with either a store ID or a zip code, I can try hacking the automatic frappering…

By: Siel

Siel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

aussie — A couple other people were confused by that too. BTW — FAIR trade. I think we’re so used to reading and hearing free trade that the phrase automatically rolls out — even when that’s really, really not what we mean –

Groby — Cool — Al of City Hippy and I do the tagging, so we’ll always include a zip from now on — Thanks for taking a crack at the hack!

By: aussie

aussie — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

oops! my bad! FAIR TRADE (how embarassment!) lol

By: Robert 'Groby' Blum

Robert 'Groby' Blum — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Before you get too carried away with the tagging - a store key might be even better. It looks like I can get the location of each Starbucks fairly easily with a StoreKey. (Until they change their web site, at least ;)

And that location is also in a Google-Map friendly format.

Now, if we also tag the link as challenge_passed or challenged_failed, we could do different icons, if you so choose... (And you have skills to make them. My art looks like a three-year old running with crayons....)

Still working on the ZIP code thing, but that's actually harder. The only places that map ZIP to geo-locations charge for it... :(

By: Siel

Siel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Did they change their website? Can’t find the store keys. Or is it just me?

By: Robert 'Groby' Blum

Robert 'Groby' Blum — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

They’re still part of the search URL. After you selected a specific store, it will show “StoreKey=xxxxx” as part of the URL. That’s the only way to find them out, AFAIK.

That’s also my secret in to find out where they are. BTW: You mind if I don’t use Frappr? They are a bit too limited for what I’m trying, and they have no web API. (For shame!)

If things go as planned, we’ll have our own Google Map, fed by the RSS feed. No user annotations, though…

By: Siel

Siel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

To readers: Groby and I are working on the del.icio.us conversion to map deets via email. More later :)