WiFi Fees

Join the Facebook group: Starbucks Stop Charging For Wi-Fi.

I think that charging for WiFi at a cafe is lame but at the same time
not paying "rent" is lame too. If you are hanging out at a cafe you
should be constantly buying a coffee or food while you're there (and
tip well). Buying one coffee and staying for hours is what cheap fucks
do.

"I would like an explanation of the usual corporate greed."

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Off to a good start there, tiger. Flies and honey and all that.

(People like this cannot be serious, can they?)

internet connection instead. Then you will understand the price.

I smell a cheapskate

I was a cafe lead at Starbucks, (in Barnes and Noble) over the
holidays a few years ago.
People come in for HOURS. They order a $4.00 venti latte and expect to
sit there as they work anywhere from 1-4 hours.
When B&N introduced the WIFI with fees, they were hoping to curb the
(bring your computer and stay for 6 hours) crowd.
Nothing in this world is free. (Didn't your mother share that with
you?) Just because you buy a $4.00 overpriced coffee doesn't entitle
you to free internet as well.
(I know people who would come in B&N, and read a book a week, just by
sitting in the big chairs.) The store encourages people to relax, and
it's a great company. Don't be greedy, sir.

Chad (or NOYB) has decided that he doesn't want to be an adult and
seems confused by the concept of sharing his letter.

So, lets not waste our time trying to help someone who clearly is
beyond help. He doesn't want it. Nor does he want to be polite or
civil.

Some companies offer free stuff some don't. Not offering something
for free isn't any greedier than expecting to get something for free.
Hi Pot it's the Kettle!

Panera does it because they are using it as a marketing tool and
believe it will help them make more money in the end. They do not do
it because they are not greedy.

Starbucks may want to give it away for free in the same way, but
people like you might suck it up for hours on end and never get out of
the table so another paying customer will come to buy overpriced
coffee.

The feedback was fine, in the form of, "I think it would be beneficial
to you to offer Free Wi-Fi and this is why I think that, blah blah
blah". However, by transitioning into "You corporate greedy bastards"
type of talk, it's trashcan time for the letter.
It's a business decision. If you don't like it, let them know why,
and do not go there anymore.

hmmm...

A company who is in business to make money.. is actually charging a
fee to ..hmm.. err.. MAKE MONEY. Go figure how that works, eh?

Ever think that Panara Bread offers free wifi because they want more
clients..who will buy more products which in turn MAKES MONEY! Again,
go figure how that works, e

Good Luck with your big poll/campaign against Barnes and Noble,
Starbucks, and Borders Books.

I get it.

I agree, they really ARE the most "hip" and "happening" places to show
off your latest gizmo's in public. One can drink tons of coffee and
stretch out their free wifi time... but how much bread can one eat to
accomplish the same thing.... and the people who go to Panera's aren't
half as "cool" and "with it" (yet) as those at the other places.

If Panera Bread has free WiFi access, then go there instead!
Problem...solution!

If you don't want anybody to comment on your letter, then don't share
it! Problem...solution!

If you want Starbucks to offer free WiFi, then suggest you will
patronize them more if they offer free WiFi, and don't call them
greedy and threaten a boycott! Problem...solution!

If you want to be taken seriously and not dismissed as a troll, then
don't cut and paste something that makes you seem to be as mature as
the average 2-year-old! Problem...solution!

Get off your computer, do your social studies homework (did you make
that diorama yet? your sister ate extra popsicles today, so you need
to wash the sticks if you're going ot use them), and you'd better be
in bed by 9:30 or I'm taking away your Richie Rich comic books for two
months!

Mom

Maybe, just maybe, they are charging you to make up for all the people
who camped out there all day (possibly in the parking lot as well)?

Yuck.

Does anyone else smell something? It's so bad it's almost as if
there's more than one. It smells like the big monster guy that hides
under the bridge and won't let you past. What the hell do you call
that guy/thing?

If paneras provides free wifi.. GO TO THEM! No one is MAKING you to go
starbucks. Its 2006.. almost 07.. every company is greedy.. where have
YOU been?

You want a company to give you something for free, something that does
have an expense tied to it. Sounds like greed to me.

Get your own ISP and stop with the attitude.

I hope you get honest feedback from them about your concerns. Maybe
what they're really charging you are fees for using their space. Do
you support them financially by buying their products? If you feel so
strongly about this issue, then you should buy from other
establishments. No reason to continue supporting certain businesses
you think are greedy when you like other places better.

Didn't you write this same letter a week ago?

As I explained to you, then, your offensive tone isn't going to win
you anything. I think it's fair to make a SUGGESTION that they
consider free Wi-Fi. But to come out and accuse them of greed (true
or not) isn't going to do anything useful.

My suggestion to you: If you want free WiFi, go to Panera. If Panera
is so great (and I happen to agree it is), then go there. You don't
need Starbucks.

"Corporate greed"???????? You must be a liberal.

There are already people that treat B&N and Borders like a library.
If the attached coffee purveyer were to offer free WI-FI, that problem
is sure to increase as the signal would not be confined to the
Starbucks area. And Starbucks has a very good reputatiopn for being
greedy in a positive way - they pass it on to their employees and to
the people that grow their coffee.