For the Blue Door Café, the introduction of Starbucks to Greencastle has not been an ideal business situation.
Prior to October 4, the Blue Door was open from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. seven days a week. However, now the local business closes at 4 p.m., with the exception of Wednesdays, which their closing time is 9 p.m.
"We didn't have enough business to support staying open beyond four o'clock," Dennis Furr, one of the owners of the Blue Door said. "It seems like right now our small business is getting affected by the importation of a big business in our community."
For the Blue Door, it is a game changer.
"We always try to adapt as best we can," Furr said.
However, sophomore Kathleen Raymond-Judy questions the selection of the hours that they are cutting to adapt to competing with the new Starbucks.
"It doesn't make sense that they would close during the hours that students would be able to go there," Raymond-Judy said.
Blue Door hopes to eventually return to their previous hours, presumably after the hype about the Starbucks dies down.
"This isn't the first time that we've adjusted our hours due to outside forces," Furr pointed out. The Blue Door typically cut hours during Winter Term when there are less students and faculty members on campus and try to extend hours during finals, he said.
Those students aren't off campus per-se - they seem to be at Starbucks, he said.
"Both the Greencastle community and the DePauw community for years have been talking about the importance of local business and the importance of supporting local business," Furr said.
Furr sees this as a definitive time for both the Greencastle community and the DePauw community to stand up show support for small businesses here in Greencastle.
"This will show us if DePauw and Greencastle really stand by what they say," he said.
Furr leaves the ultimate fate of small local businesses to the residents.
"The decision is up to the consumer," Furr said. "If they decide that they want to continue to support a local business, like Blue Door, then that is what will make us survive, nothing else."