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- Starbucks is starstruck
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Starbucks is trying to stop an entrepreneur from opening a rival chain called Starstruck in India, effectively beating the coffee company to the punch. The entrepreneur says her concept is totally different from the Starbucks offer. The name is just coincidental, of course.
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- Starbucks' 'venti' problem
  Posted by Jon from Los Angeles Times
  Nice editorial on the problems Starbucks (and others) face in expanding too much, too fast.
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- Give Me a Double Shot of Starbucks Nostalgia
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  This article on Howard Schultz is quite interesting. The stock market values growth not fixed revenue - so stocks are essentially overvalued unless they grow into behemoths. Somehow owning a share of a 30,000 chain franchise which generates terrific dividends is uninteresting to investors - I don't quite get it. The effect on our world is well...disgusting to say the least, environmentally destructive certainly.
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- Starbucks coffee roasted
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Ethiopia's coffee growers are creating problems for Starbucks which has an annual turnover of $7.8 billion, not much lower than Ethiopia's gross domestic product. Ethiopian farmers make a pittance on the coffee and Starbucks has refused permission for Ethiopian farmers to trademark their beans.
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- Starbucks Responds In Kind To Oxfam YouTube Video
  Posted by Jeff from Chineseinvancouver.blogspot
  Slashdot on Starbuck's corporate irresponsibility. Interesting placement. Well, I say to Starbucks, keep talking ... and when you get tired of digging with that shovel - perhaps you could try paying a living wage.
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- Anti-business films are the new muckrakers
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Starbucks ran out of money after running daily full-page ads in the New York Times for a year about how responsible they are: "Starbucks was one of the companies that turned down interview requests from Nick and Mark Francis when the brothers were shooting their documentary about rampant poverty among Ethiopian coffee growers"
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- Starbucks Raises Prices on Coffee
  Posted by Jeff from Chicago Tribune
  Starbucks Corp. said Thursday that it planned to raise prices of its lattes, cappuccinos, drip coffee and other drinks by 5 cents, or an average of 1.9 percent. O'Neil said the company decided to charge more because costs, including fuel and energy, are going up.
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Newport Starbucks boots Dems
Eek! Imagine, people actually wanting to discuss politics in a coffee shop. What's next?
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6:56 am 7/14/06

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