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At 12:24 6/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
><< Also, Starbuck's marketing practices have evidently been geared to
>putting neighborhood style coffee houses out of business. >>
>
>Jodi H.:
><<Once again if it looks like a national chain means hi-dollars going out
>of the town vs in town for local businesses. it is quite bad in urban
>"revival". >>
>
>Not everyone loves Starbucks. A month or so ago a Starbucks opened on
>State Street, between the Wisconsin State Capitol and the University of
>Wisconsin, the people of Madison apparently were not happy, as the protest
>made the front page of the Capitol Times. This went as far as to trying
>to create a city ordinance to protect State Street from "chain stores", ...
>
>Don
>"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit
>without individual responsibility". -- Ambrose Bierce
>
** Just yesterday (Thurs 22 Oct.), our radio news' Business segment
mentioned that Starbucks was opening their first store in New Zealand, in
Auckland. Today they gave them more free advertising: the general manager
stated Starbucks was planning 10 stores by sometime next year.
I'll be circulating to a few friends (in the Greens, and my children in
their 20s) a compilation of some comments on Starbucks in this list,
starting with Priscilla's in January, and including Betsy Barnum's.
If anyone else wants it (14 kB), just drop me a line.
David.
** http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/6783/
David MacClement <davd@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3142/