Starbucks = Quantity over Quality

Or so says Sarah Gilbert in this piece at bloggingstocks.com. Writing on Starbucks sales figures for June 2006, Gilbert writes: "It's a long-subscribed-to axiom that you can't have both quality and quantity. And in my opinion, Starbucks' quantity has finally increased to the point that its quality is problematic" and also tells of one Starbucks barista who quit to open their own store when Starbucks moved from mechanical espresso machines to fully-automatic machines. So I'm not the only one who thinks that Starbucks just ain't that great as I wrote in my post about the "Coffee Industrial Complex".