The end of the neighborhood as we know it? Boycott Starbucks - Save Your Community
Starbucks is the transnational corporation that destroys neighborhoods. It is the chain store that is so completely out of control that it thinks nothing of putting three stores on one intersection. The ma and pa stores, the diners and all special places that make one place different from another are reduced to the stupid mall of Morebucks and its companions GAP, Barnes and Nobles, Staples and all the rest. Financed by Nazdaq casino culture money, Starbucks will deliberately snap up storefronts next to thriving community hubs, as it has on 9th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen near Broadway in New York City. Suddenly the The Coffeepot on 49th has Starbucks on two sides, both probably losing money and both paying the local landlords 3 times what any legitimate business could afford. $bucks is the new Disney, a company whose aggression makes it wrong on so many issues, from the environment to labor to genetic engineering -- this is a company that must be actively opposed by healthy communities. Support your local coffee houses!
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