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

[David Beardsley <db@biink.com>]

Richard Zvonar wrote:

> 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.

Sort like Guitar Center.

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