How do companies like Starbucks or McDonalds gain so much profit? They’re able to market their products so well that people flock to their stores/restaurants everyday and gain so much profit. Don’t people realize how unhealthy the products are that these companies sell?
Starbucks whose coffers are already overflowing with the ill gotten gains from victims with wool in their eyes the world over, seeks to inflate the already bulging, grande, bank accounts of its corporate officers by robbing hard working Americans four dollars at a time for overpriced, poorly made lattes and machiattos. This atrocity must be stopped and it is up to you to make that happen.
People who shop at Starbucks aren’t customers, they are victims- victims of an evil empire that is built on the blood of an exploited working class, victims of an organization that is playing a part in systematically destroying the neighborhoods in this country, and victims of a company who charges too much for bad coffee!
Starbucks is renowned for poor business practices that hurt hard working people, and kill local economies. In a recent attempt at unionization, workers complained that, “the gourmet coffee giant is grinding them down with oppressive working conditions.” Christina Rosevear, a Starbucks Barista, was forced back to work during her eighth month of pregnancy, despite her doctor’s advice against it, under threats of losing her job.
Any victim who has ever walked into a Starbucks and attempted to order a cup of Fair Trade coffee can attest to the company’s lack of interest in supporting the communities around the world responsible for growing, harvesting, and processing the product from which billionaires like Starbucks chief Howard Shultz make money. The corporate executives at Starbucks will glady continue to get fat on the underpaid labor of growers in third world countries who are dying from curable diseases because they have no medical care!
Coffee farmers are becoming even more impoverished, going further into debt and losing their land due to extremely low world coffee prices. Meanwhile Starbucks has not lowered consumer prices but are pocketing the difference, even taking into account the quality premiums in the specialty industry.
According to Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International, Fair Trade farmers sell only about 20% of their coffee at a Fair Trade price. The rest is sold at the world price, due to lack of demand. Demand can be created by large corporations selling Fair Trade.
Starbucks’ policy of cannibalizing neighborhoods is no secret- their scouts seek out the hub of a neighborhood and locate successful locally owned and operated businesses. They attempt to break the leases of the current proprietor, and if they are unable to send the current tenant packing, they open up shop across the street and try to steal customers one by one. The invading company is quite open about this carnivorous tactic in magazine articles and power point presentations.
Starbucks brings death to neighborhoods — the depoliticized world view spews from the uncaring unfeeling corporate monster like a scentless gas, invisible yet highly explosive. Nietzsche’s pflight- The wings of American neighborhoods clipped by expensive coffee drinks!
Nietzsche’s pflight- It is your moral imperative, arise as one! Put the kibosh on Starbucks’ and their evil empire’s attempts to exploit you by monopolizing the coffee trade in your neighborhood! Boycott, protest, speak out with one voice and say “NO!”
http://consumerist.com/2010/03/submit-your-nominations-for-2010-worst-company-in-america-contest.html
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