Comment by thrown-0825
6 months ago
Hard to do when starbucks is a real estate holding company that sells coffee. They have sucked all the air out of the cafe space and driven out their competitors.
6 months ago
Hard to do when starbucks is a real estate holding company that sells coffee. They have sucked all the air out of the cafe space and driven out their competitors.
Driven out their competitors where? In Seoul, Twosome Place and Hollys are ubiquitous, there's a few more chains whose names I don't remember off the top of my head and plenty of single-location cafes remain as well.
I couldn't tell you where the nearest Starbucks is in Philly but I can name at least 9 other cafes within a short walk.
> They have sucked all the air out of the cafe space and driven out their competitors.
How?
They had a policy of saturating an area until all the competition closed then withdrawing shops until they were profitable. It was quite common to see two Starbucks across the road from each other.
By addicting consumers to coffee flavored sugar I suppose?
Is this to the point that no internet cafes exist?