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Memorial Road closings

davemorris — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:42:01 +0000

Steve Lackmeyer writes one of the best, if not the best, blogs on NewsOK. You can find it at OKCCentral.com. Not surprisingly, it’s about Oklahoma City with a focus on downtown and Bricktown. It’s informative and exclusive, meaning you can’t find that stuff online elsewhere. At least, I haven’t anyway.

OKC Talk is also great, by the way.

Steve, a business reporter at The Oklahoman, is the authority when it comes to development. He has spent years talking to the movers and shakers of our city’s growth. He has written books about it, recently conducting a book signing for his latest.

Anyway, we are developing a video segment to accompany his blog. A few weeks ago, he told me he planned a story on the closings of some businesses on Memorial Road in NW OKC. I shot a quick video while driving up Memorial, from Circuit City to Starbucks. Not the best video you’ll ever see. Look for better soon.

Another Starbucks closes down

davemorris — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:35:31 +0000

This one, near the office. Starbucks at Britton and Broadway, diagonally across from The Oklahoman, is closing this week.

Starbucks red cup can only mean one thing

davemorris — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:43:53 +0000

We must be getting close to the holidays.

Starbucks does a great job of marketing. They extend their brand in many directions, perhaps expanding too quickly and outgrowing their markets. However, they typically have a good grasp on the seasons and their customers’ tastes during certain periods of the year.

So now when you pull through a drive thru at Starbucks – and let’s face it, the drive thru at Starbucks is remarkably fast, compared with Subway for example – your coffee is contained by the festive red holiday design, complete with pine trees and doves.

Maybe it’s the little things, commercial as they may be, that you notice at the end of a long week.

Woodward minister arrested

davemorris — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:59:11 +0000

Edwin Grant Dowty, a Woodward educator, former foster parent and minister of the New Covenant Church of Woodward was arrested Monday and charged with three counts of lewd molestation of a female under the age of 13.

Ellen Censky, director of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, announced today she will resign next month from the University of Oklahoma museum.

Oklahoma State University today became the largest campus in the state to ban tobacco. OSU President Burns Hargis said the policy aims to make OSU a clean and healthy environment.

Starbucks Corp. has announced it’s closing 600 underperforming stores in the United States. it expects to open fewer than 200 new company-operated stores in the United States in fiscal 2009.

Looking ahead to your Wednesday forecast, expect highs in the mid 90s in OKC.

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Starbucks new flavor: free AT&T wifi

davemorris — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:01:29 +0000

USA Today has a story today about Starbucks offering a 2 hour free wifi window with AT&T. It’s about time. Their contract with T-Mobile is phasing out. There are still some strings to Starbucks “free” wifi, but overall it sounds fairly business saavy on their part.

New Starbucks logo

davemorris — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:01:06 +0000

So what do you think of Starbucks’ new logo? The mermaid shows more. The logo is brown instead of green.

Faces of Seattle resistance

davemorris — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:22:22 +0000

If you missed it, Jenni Carlson has a good story about the five men who are leading the charge to keep the Sonics in Seattle.

The story breaks down each of the five men:

Gary Nickels, Seattle mayor
Richard Yarmuth, attorney for Howard Schultz
Brian Robinson, Save Our Sonics director
Slade Gorton, City of Seattle attorney
Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman and CEO

Free coffee from Starbucks

davemorris — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:52:25 +0000

Starbucks will now serve up an everyday brew. Hmmm, and I thought the lattes I ordered there were of the everyday variety already. This seems a little too marketing driven.

But you can get a free cup tomorrow.

“To celebrate the launch, it will give away free 8-ounce cups of Pike Place Roast — named after its first store in Seattle’s famed public market — at more than 7,000 U.S. stores from 11 to 11:30 a.m.”

Now we’re talking.

Starbucks recently opened a location at Britton and Broadway, diagonally across from the OPUBCO building. I know I spend enough money at the McDonald’s across the street, and I certainly buy my share of Starbucks at any number of their locations.

Seems the everyday variety coffee is a big deal to Starbucks. They embargoed the story on their web site. I doubt they care that word has leaked out.

Here’s more on the coffee:

“Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Schultz touted Pike Place Roast for its bold flavor, smooth finish and “subtle, rich flavors of cocoa and toasted nuts.”

It will be freshly roasted, hand-scooped, freshly ground and brewed in small batches that sit for no longer than 30 minutes. It will be brewed, both regular and decaf, alongside rotating coffees of the week, and sold by the whole bean for $9.95 per pound.”

Apparently this is why Starbucks shut down its stores for a few minutes in February: to train its baristas.

It’s cold in Orlando

davemorris — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:23:58 +0000

I won’t lie. It’s cold today. Overcast, breezy and cold. How cold? iPhone weather reports 48, and I’m pretty sure it’s warmed up in the past 3 hours I’ve been up.

And what’s up with people’s dedication to Starbucks? Nothing against Starbucks, I’ve spent my share of cash on their brew. But here at the Marriott World Center, there is a Starbucks in the lobby. And people will line up 20 deep and wait forever for their drink. That’s crazy.

Maybe they don’t know there is a coffee shop downstairs that isn’t as busy. $2.50 for a large.

I know, it’s not the same.

Today’s 3 Things…

davemorris — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:30:54 +0000

Oklahoma Starbucks; Sooner Assistant Coaches; Size 2 is not fat.

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