Talk:Third place/Archives/2014

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Am I right in thinking that David Lynch directed the PS2 ads. This is worthy of comment if so...

Dr. Ray Oldenburg uses a coffee shop called "Third Place" in Raleigh, NC to motivate his idea of the Great Good Place. I recall his perspective is at least suggestively critical of the B&N and Starbucks' business model. He certainly does not invoke Starbucks as an example of the Third Place. The efforts to link both the concept to the corporation, as well as the corporation to the concept on their respective pages are misleading. The reference to 'starbuck's marketing' efforts in this vein is dubious. Unless the deliberately misleading wikipedia entry itself constitutes said marketing? ~Ryan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.190.143.218 (talk) 00:25, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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To quote, in the book, 'Wrestling with Starbucks', by Kim Fellner, Fellner states; "Schultz appropriated the concept of a 'third place'... Oldenburg himself is somewhat bemused. He's never met Howard Schultz. 'I think he avoided me in the early years because I would have scoffed at him... 'The seats were uncomfortable, the staff was impatient if you stumbled over your drink order, and they were rude-- not at all like a third place.' " OO (talk) 23:59, 19 July 2010 (UTC)