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	<title>The Sinking Mermaid</title>
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	<description>The Diatribe of Starbucks Partner 209306</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Grind that Coffee of Day, Howie</title>
		<link>http://sinkingmermaid.com/2008/03/19/scoopin-beans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[        Ok, so Howard announced the new initiatives.. Nothing unexpected here. Yes, the stores need to smell like coffee, it&#8217;s a coffee shop. People expect certain smells from certain environments. I mean picture an outhouse that does not smell like, well you know, how you expect an outhouse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks In-Store Barista Training and Stuff</title>
		<link>http://sinkingmermaid.com/2008/02/26/starbucks-in-store-barista-training-and-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://sinkingmermaid.com/2008/02/26/starbucks-in-store-barista-training-and-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;In one of its most significant efforts to transform the company and        reignite its connection with customers, today Starbucks (Nasdaq:SBUX - News) is        conducting an unprecedented in-store education and training event for        more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Businessweek&#8217;s article on Reenergizing Starbucks</title>
		<link>http://sinkingmermaid.com/2008/02/21/re-businessweeks-article-on-reenergizing-starbucks/</link>
		<comments>http://sinkingmermaid.com/2008/02/21/re-businessweeks-article-on-reenergizing-starbucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this story:
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2008/id20080220_372003.htm?campaign_id=yhoo
Starbucks stores, today, are exactly what you share holders and analysts wanted. They are dumbed down, canned, cookie cutter, efficient in a pre-packaged sort of way, over priced and staffed by minimum wage workers.    That&#8217;s great!  Right?  No? That&#8217;s not great?  Since when?  This is the same lean, mean, profit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFC</title>
		<link>http://sinkingmermaid.com/2008/02/17/cfc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buying Countrywide at 10 and change may have been the smartest thing I have ever done. Not selling at 12 and a half&#8230; well, a little less smart. Riding it down to 5.. ok.. I need a drink.  Doing this all while unemployed? Please don&#8217;t bandage my wrists if you find them sliced. Just pour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freescale CEO Michel Mayer Resigns..or maybe he was canned..</title>
		<link>http://sinkingmermaid.com/2008/02/11/freescale-ceo-michel-mayer-resigns/</link>
		<comments>http://sinkingmermaid.com/2008/02/11/freescale-ceo-michel-mayer-resigns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;..If you want a pension, go work for the post office&#8221;.
The immortal words of Michel Mayer spoken during a Freescale &#8220;town hall&#8221;.
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		<title>Intro</title>
		<link>http://sinkingmermaid.com/2008/02/10/intro/</link>
		<comments>http://sinkingmermaid.com/2008/02/10/intro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sinking Mermaid is the title of a book, which I started several years ago, about Starbucks Coffee and my misadventures as Partner 209306.  I said &#8220;started&#8221;, not &#8220;finished&#8221;, because my hard drive crashed and most of the book was lost.
The title &#8220;The Sinking Mermaid&#8221; is taken from a comment by a friend who [...]]]></description>
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