pre-schaedenfreude?

[waider]

Dalkey, with a population somewhere short of 10,000, currently has at least four coffee shops and a half-dozen pubs where you can also purchase the brewed bean. That hasn't stopped Starbucks from renovating a premises in the middle of the town, due to open some time soon going by the "Staff Wanted" notices. Personally I'm hoping that their general downturn in fortunes due to rapid expansion might mean that this particular outlet never sees a single customer...

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[waider.livejournal.com]

Since I've only been in the area a few years, I'm not familiar with the older shops, but I'll take your word for it. And the location and layout of the Starbucks premises does make it difficult to imagine what else would go there. I remain skeptical, however, that there's a market in Dalkey for another coffee shop; I would particularly be interested to see how the coffee shop market in general does as the economy tightens and people realise that perhaps a cup of Maxwell House will suffice in the morning in place of a hand-roasted colombian decaff latte or whatever. I guess time will tell.