STARBUCKS Coffee in Victoria
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 04:50 PM
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 07:57 PM
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 08:11 PM
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 08:12 PM
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 10:29 PM
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 11:28 PM
March 8 1994: Restaurants: Starbucks opens its first location in Victoria on Friday, at Fort and Blanshard. It will be open 6 a.m. to midnight weekdays, from 7 a.m. weekends and close at 10 p.m. Sundays. Its second outlet, in Mayfair shopping centre, opens March 19.
July 23, 1996: Starbucks will open its eighth Victoria-area coffee bar on Aug. 10, at Fort Street and Foul Bay Road. (Number seven opened recently in Hillside mall's food court.) Manager Lara McCulloch says it has six tables, about the size of the Oak Bay Avenue outlet, but a different look from the traditional forest green and brown woods.
She says this one has cherry and mustard shades. Also expect more Starbucks in the region, she says. So far there are none west of Douglas Street or on the Saanich Peninsula.
The Chapters Starbucks and the Cook St. Moka house opened in 1997.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 06:26 AM
#29
Posted 13 July 2007 - 12:30 PM
I don't know what the first store was but the one at Saanich Centre on the corner of Quadra and McKenzie and the Mayfair Mall stores were very early in the role-out. If I had to guess, I'd say the first store was the Saanich Centre store.I wonder where was the first Victoria Starbucks?
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Posted 13 July 2007 - 12:35 PM
They have a ten year refresh cycle. The Fort and Foul Bay store is transitioning from the hi-tech loft style (with yellow jazz print mural) to a more sophisticated space with chocolate coloured walnut panelling and grey-blue walls. It should be a noticeable change (unless you're one of the folks who wander in from the EMP, in which case, you probably won't notice anything at all).Yeh, the Starbucks "non-reno" is one of the mysteries of life. What did they do? Why did they do it? When will they do it again??!!
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Posted 13 July 2007 - 02:59 PM
#32
Posted 13 July 2007 - 03:49 PM
Here's what we know from the news items above:
1. Fort & Blanshard (1994)
2. Mayfair (1994)
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?
7. Hillside Mall (1996?)
8. Fort & Foul Bay (1996)
We also know that Oak Bay Avenue was somewhere from 3-6 and that 3-6 did not include any outlets downtown west of Douglas or on the Saanich Peninsula.
So I'm guessing it was something like so:
1. Fort & Blanshard (1994)
2. Mayfair
3. Cook Street Village
4. Oak Bay Avenue
5. Quadra & Mckenzie
6. Shelbourne Plaza
7. Hillside Mall
8. Fort & Foul Bay (1996)
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Posted 13 July 2007 - 04:19 PM
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#34
Posted 13 July 2007 - 04:50 PM
I've been to the Duncan Plaza Starbucks. Surrounded by 10 square miles of vast, empty parking lot--not cozy.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
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Posted 13 July 2007 - 04:53 PM
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Posted 13 July 2007 - 04:56 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#37
Posted 14 July 2007 - 09:00 AM
The first one in Saanich was the one at mayfair as Holden pointed out but it was two years later than the Fort and Blansahrd one.
Mayfair isn't in Saanich so I think the first one in Saanich is the Saanich Centre one.
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Posted 22 October 2007 - 03:29 PM
#39
Posted 22 October 2007 - 05:32 PM
I was disappointed to notice on the weekend, that the Hillside Starbucks has started to use a black permanent marker to redact the US price from their price tags. Rather than reduce the Canadian price to reflect the surging Canadian dollar's rise over the last several years, they are going to try and sidestep the issue of cheaper US prices and continue to charge us more. As a consumer, I don't appreciate it when a corporation treats me with contempt.
Reason number 4000 not to shop at Sbux.
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Posted 23 October 2007 - 12:45 AM
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