How do companies like Starbucks or McDonalds gain so much profit with unhealthy products?
April 62010
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!”
April 6th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
they love it and some fat people are addicted some active people like me just eat it and then burn the calories by running or skate or somthing
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April 6th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
because of the taste, it is like cigarettes once your addicted it is hard to quit, and most smokers including my dad who has been a heavy smoker for 35 years he knows that it is stupid but he can’t stop everyone knows that they should be eating a salad or something with herbs but they go for taste and the addiction that are in these foods! It is sad isn’t it
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April 6th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Well pretty much their food taste good. People these days don’t care what they put into their system any more. Coffee isn’t really that bad but McDonalds is terrible. every once and while you can eat there, just not everyday.
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April 6th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
McDonalds is on a downfall Starbucks because it tastes awesome at an affordable price.
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April 6th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
people want food fast. so they go through a drive-thru like mcd of get something thats good like starbucks. most of the time they r thinking o this isnt that bad for me, but when thousands of people thell themselves that every day the company makes a lot of money. i work at a mcd in a town of about 10,000 and it is nothing for us to make $2,500-$3,000 a day. i have actually been there when we made over $700 in one hour.
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April 6th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
It’s addicting. Some people are just addicted to eating.
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April 6th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
The reasons for this are several:
Taste — The foods are loaded with sugar, butter, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, and other addictive tastes.
Fast preparation — People are impatient and want what they want right away. Or, they want it yesterday. That’s a big part of it.
Consistency — People know that if they go to a particular franchise, what they order will be the same as what they order at any other store in that franchise. So they trust what they’re getting is what they expect.
Inexpensive food — Fast food is normally pretty cheap, and that speaks for itself.
Opiates — Chemicals are added to the products to make them more addicting. Also, foods are engineered to be addicting, in terms of taste, ease of eating, and combinations of chemicals. If you’re ever seen supersize me, they discuss the combinations of proteins, sugar, and caffeine that are extremely addictive.
Most people don’t make active, smart choices about their diet. They eat what they want and give minimal effort to any balance of proper fruits, veggies, fats, etc. Most people don’t realise all the chemicals in their fast food, becuase it "feels good". They don’t care if it’s unhealthy. There’s also, for some people, stigma attached to eating healthy becuase it’s what "tree hugging hippies do".
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April 6th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
you pretty much answered your own question already in the question but its because it so good i dont like wasting all my money on crap like that every week but its so good and you cant stop eating it its pretty hard when your a kid and there’s a carls jr and a starbucks right across the street from your house not to waste your money on that crap
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April 6th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
becuase they target the consumers that are willing to risk nutrition for a fast (and i have to say… tasty) meal…. or caffeine. when people have worked all day … they forget about calories, carbs, and fat… they just want food and mcd’s offers them food fast @ a low price..
starbucks on the other hand, has addicted their customers to their caffeine-enriched products… starbucks is an addiction… thats why they raise their prices so frequently.
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April 7th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Not everything they sell is unhealthy, first of all…and when McDonalds was first founded, health concerns were not as prevalent as they are today…McDonalds gained it’s popularity early and it’s not going to go away. People know it’s unhealthy…but it’s also quick, cheap, and (to a lot of people) tasty.
Those also aren’t the only unhealhy places…most restaraunts…fast food or sit-down…serve food that is bad for you and HUGE portions….but they also serve healthier options…
it’s up to consumers to care about what they put in their bodies…most of the time they don’t…
Sometimes i do, and sometimes i don’t…but i have self-control…and finding self-control in the average person these days is rare.
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April 7th, 2010 at 12:53 am
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!”
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