Those stores are hideous to me. I have been in twice to get coffee, second time was under duress.
It is the simple fact that the sales staff are under pressure to.. change the consumerist attitude, way of thinking, towards coffee. I'd wager economists have mental breakdowns in that place.
There are 2 simple problems with the stores approach 1) People in there are there because they have run out of coffee 2) Coffee for some, like me, is a twice or more daily fix. If you get between me and coffee at the wrong moment with a preprogrammed sales script, trying to make your coffee sound in comparison to others as the Maserati of coffee, I will EAT YOUR GOD DAMNED ARM OFF!
Aw, come on DB. What's the worst that could happen?
Say the salespeople detect immediately that we aren't "their kind of customer" and so they... do what? Ignore us pointedly? I've had that happen before, in some little preppy-hipster shop in the Niederdorf I wandered into one day, but so what - you walk out with your head high, in the assurance that at least you've got better manners.
(But then you probably don't need any re-assurance of that .)
Hm...If I liked their coffee I could care less for the sales people, stores, the whole shtick. But I don't like their coffee, and I have a feeling, the coffee needs a massive life style campaign, special stores and brainwashing since it really is not the best coffee around. I like to grind my coffee, throw it in the french press pot, smell it, sip it while I chitchat in the teacher's lounge, run around or read...In the US I found myself allergic to the "java" addicts who went into self important frenzy every single morning talking about how they need that watered down, ugly tasting thing. Apple stores irk me too, but I don't like apple products and their wrong coding and noncompatibility, with the interest to rip people off...
I am not sure if this attitude is a symptom of intelligence, I doubt it. Just product preference, and maybe a tad of stubborness.
Everyone is a snob, only about different things..
Sorry Angela, don't mean to sounds critical, or anything, it just comes out funny. You like your cuoffee, I can't live without Denner pepperoni, same thing.
Indeed, they may ask if you would like to taste one of their precious new creations and you sit yourself comfortably down and say "yes" to milk and sugar... nothing wrong in that DB, nothing at all
angela, you can borrow my son. he will say loudly how "maleducado" some people are at just the right moment. he was born with that gift, while i, like you, just go off in spanish not realizing ( ) that sometimes french speakers actually understand what i'm saying...
either way, we've got a nespresso machine too, a nice gift from a good friend, but my old italian cafetera makes the best cup of coffee for me...
and we don't have to eat arroz con siempre all week to have my fix (although it is yummy coffee, i agree...
And this from the person that buys her coffee from Starbucks ???? LOL, just kidding. I like the fact that their machines (Nespresso) are not too expensive and I can make a very decent cappucino with mine (it was a gift BTW)...AND they had Peruvian coffee in their selection - not anymore