Starbucks Stumbles, We Eat Schadenfreude Pie

by | Aug 5, 2008 | Coffee, Featured

It’s enough to make even Motley Fool cheerleader Alyce Lomax choke on her coffee. Consider — 600 store closings (or 12,000 job cuts) 1000 additional job cuts at the home office a first ever quarterly corporate loss, and diminished expectations for the rest...

Coffee Notes from All Over

by | Mar 26, 2008 | Coffee

NYTimes: Tasting the Future of Starbucks Tasting Clover-brewed coffee at Starbucks with George Howell. (Mr. Howell is not an easy mark.) Coffee’s Benevolent Mr. Bean Profiles Stumptown’s Duane Sorenson. (No mention that Stumptown is ditching the Clover in the...
Starbucks’ Shiny New Shamrock

Starbucks’ Shiny New Shamrock

by | Mar 20, 2008 | Coffee

Listen… Hear that? . . . . . . That’s the sound of thousands of coffee retailers gasping for air, reeling from a sucker-punch. These are folks who’d aspired to get themselves a Clover… the commercial, cup-at-a-time coffee brewer that’s...

Could a Coffee Maker Be Worth $11,000?

by | Mar 5, 2008 | Coffee

Clover’s sitting pretty. They’ve picked up positive ink in the New York Times, Economist, The Atlantic (warning: PDF). And just yesterday evening while you were loosing sleep over the presidential primaries (you were, weren’t you… admit it!)...

Green Mountain’s Game-Changing Kenya AA

by | Apr 3, 2007 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews

Rating: [rating:4/5] I have long been ambivalent — or at least something of a fence-sitter — where the whole single-cup coffee thing is concerned. Single-cup brewers are, by design, a study in compromise between convenience and quality. Do you want...

More on the Clover

by | Nov 4, 2005 | Coffee

Chris Tacy rambles passionately (okay, he gushes a little bit) on the Clover, and what it might could mean — maybe — for brewed coffee in a specialty roaster / retailer shop. …I love the idea of offering the consumer a choice. They can have any of...

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