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Comment by tasuki

3 days ago

> They have sucked all the air out of the cafe space and driven out their competitors.

How?

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tasuki

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tonyedgecombe  1 day ago

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.

delfinom  3 days ago

By addicting consumers to coffee flavored sugar I suppose?

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