Re: “Is your Seattle-area Starbucks part of the wave of closures? Check out our list” (Sept. 27, Enterprise):
After studying that many native Starbucks are closing, together with the one I’ve been going to for years, I grieve the lack of a neighborhood’s “third place.” It supplied a impartial place to fulfill with mates and with involved neighbors over native points; it was a vacation spot for my worldwide college students; and it supplied an opportunity to fulfill people and study what was on their minds.
I used to be all the time met with an expert, pleasant and accommodating workers. I went right down to thank them and say goodbye. The notice on the door addresses the purchasers. I ponder what occurs to the workers? If I discovered with two-days discover that my place can be now not, I might be in a state of shock. It looks as if Starbucks is worried concerning the backside fiscal line however not the workers having no apparent voice. As I perceive it, unionization is fought each step of the best way.
I concern for our nation, the place companies are thought of individuals and workers simply one other commodity. I shall be mourning the lack of my neighborhood’s third place referred to as Starbucks.
Adelaide Loges, Bothell (aka Quick Drip Decaf)
