Starbucks cuts 12,000 jobs as sales cool (IWW)

[Die Neue Zeit]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/consumer_goods/article4254345.ece

http://www.starbucksunion.org/node/2024

Thoughts?

[Colonello Buendia]

this is really quite interesting. I'll be taking part in the protests in Glasgow since there are about 5 Starbucks within a square mile of the city center. It is clear that the no union or unionist elimination policies operated by the corporation result in an oppressed workforce and a weakening of the workers. I wonder how much of the falls in sales is down to boycotts and labour action......

[F9]

it gives me a load error and it doesnt opened the pages both of them!:confused:

[BIG BROTHER]

I guess this is another effect from the recession.

[Joe Hill's Ghost]

I was talking about this over at my blog (http://joehillghost.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/our-friends-at-starbucks/) Basically Starbucks has driven out all the competitors it can with its "build to kill" strategy. So now we're seeing the inevitable closing of all the stores that aren't profitable.

[KrazyRabidSheep]

It was inevitable that the Starbucks fad started to decline, and sales would therefore drop.

Starbucks greatly over-expanded to, as Joe Hill's Ghost stated, drive out all other competition.

Nobody states it quite like Lewis Black:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z9iMgSNrwv4