Now I know the blogosphere is supposed to be powerful, but what do we make of this? One day after I post my letter to Starbucks on this weblog I get another letter from “Michael,” the bot that runs the “Customer Relations” email service at Starbucks (I’d post a link to that critical department of the company, but they don’t have a website): Dear Mr. Corrigan: Thank you for contacting Starbucks Coffee Company. Here is the latest news for your weblog. Starbucks Coffee Company and Haida Bucks Caf� have recently resolved their trademark dispute. Whenever trademark confusion arises, it is …
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I have been supporting HaidaBucks in Masset BC. They are being threatened with legal action by Starbucks. I wrote to Starbucks telling them that I thought they should lay off. Michael, from Customer Relations, wrote me back. Here is my reply to his note, with some html added: Dear Michael: Okay…replying to a form letter may be the height of folly, but I’ll be sure to post this correspondence on my weblog at https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot so it doesn’t seem like I’m completely tilting at windmills… > Dear Mr. Corrigan: > > Thank you for contacting Starbucks Coffee Company. Thank you for …
Yesterday I was walking with my two year old son. We were coming home from the coffee shop where we had been drinking coffee (me) and apple juice (him). A propos of nothing he looked up at me and said: “Is that your tea cup shirt?” I was wearing a t-shirt with a South African cricket logo on it. “Uh, no,” I said. “Is it your water shirt?” “No.” He looked perplexed. “Is it a coffee shirt?” “No.” Then I got it. “Ah Finn,” I said. “It’s a t-shirt, not a tea shirt.” “Oh right,” he said. ” A t-shirt.” …
K. SIlem Mohammed at lime tree brands me in his blogroll. Thanks! Better than a jelly roll…