Re: Off Topic? I'll give you Off Topic!!

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 2:24 AM -0700 8/6/04, Gary Lehmann wrote:
>Why is Starbucks evil?  Or rather, how?

For me the main thing is their predatory business practice of opening 
stores in the immediate vicinity of established neighborhood coffee 
shops. They'll even saturate a neighborhood with stores to the point 
where each one has reduced profitability, but the company itself 
still see snet profit.. This can have the  effect of "starving out" 
the local cafes, leaving Starbuck's with all the customers.
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