RE: Victrola Coffee & Art makes the news

I am on the side of the business.  

In such a fiercely competitive coffee industry, you need something to set your business apart...Many coffee shops use free WiFi to lure customers.  

Non-paying customers, or "WiFi squatters", can hurt business.  

Unlike some out there, I have a conscience.  If I sit down and use WiFi, I will actually purchase at least one coffee product from that particular café.  Especially since most are small businesses.  It's a productive barter where everybody wins.


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ralph Sims
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 4:03 PM
> To: 'SeattleWireless Talk List'
> Subject: Victrola Coffee & Art makes the news
> 
> >From Wi-Fi Planet's "Hotspot Hits"
> 
> Surly, untalkative loners looking for Wi-Fi need to campout 
> elsewhere: Blogs are abuzz today with the tail of possible 
> hotspot backlash, as a coffee shop in Seattle-Victrola Coffee 
> & Art-is turning off its free Wi-Fi network on the weekends. 
> The connections had gone from drawing in customers to making 
> them incommunicative as they hunkered over their laptops. 
> Turning off the Wi-Fi has apparently helped turn on the 
> interaction again, and even better, weekend sales are up. 
> Outside of some nasty e-mails, the café says most customers 
> have thanked them. -May 27, 2005 
> 
> More stuff at:
> http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1n76,1,l0p5,ecft,dlb,71i8
> 
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