Color-coded Shopping: Starbucks, Out! Dunkin' Donuts In!
April 9, 2005 | By Charmaine Yoest
As reported by Brenda Goodman in one of my favorite lefty business mags, Fast Company, there's a new source for color-coding your shopping and coordinating your voting and your spending habits.
Check out www.choosetheblue.com and www.buyblue.org: they've compiled the data on how corporate PAC's and corporate leadership contributed in the last election cycle.
There's bad news for conservative coffee drinkers: Starbucks, 100% Dem!! And what's this betrayal from Bed, Bath and Beyond??
Sorry buyblue guys, you heard it here first: this cuts both ways.
No more Starbucks for this girl!
Is this what's behind the left-wing war on Wal-Mart? Hey, two sides can play this game. If Wal-Mart or Sam's don't got it, we don't need it -- (with apologies to Garrison Keillor).
(For more on political color, see here: conservatives are the new progressives. . .)
Update 18 June 2005: Patterico's Pontifications reviews the high cost of coffee: See-Dub: A Little Lattetudinarianism, Please
Update: Sean at The American Mind reminds us that coffee cost is de minimus. See Coffee is a Drop in the Bucket.
Update: Daniel W. Drezner questions assumptions in coffee cost in Which editor at the Washington Post owes Blaine Harden money?
Update July 13: AttaBoy points to a lefty humorous site where Starbucks is loved and WalMart hated.
Update May 19, 2008, More folks swearing off Starbucks
Comments
I just found your page and have enjoyed the comments and links. But the chart just killed me. I'm a Democrat supporter in almost all my buying habits. I will need to reform my buying habits across the board, Lord have Mercy.
SCK
Posted by: SCK | June 2, 2005 4:44 PM