Re:Remembering my father
by ilikeerp on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:58AM
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Starbucks didn't kill it. Consumers did. Startbucks came to Australia and mostly failed (had to close lots of stores) as the local coffee culture is very strong. Starbucks was mostly ignored.
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> Starbucks didn't kill it. Consumers did.
Starbucks seems to act as if it has a habit of making quarterly plans and mostly executing according to that intent.
But when I look at Consumers as a single entity it seems remarkably undisciplined. It can't seem to hold any plan in mind, coordinate its actions with any moment-to-moment follow-through on, or even _agree_ on a single intended plan. -- Consumers acts like it has no Chief Executive Function!
The stores that remain in Australia don't even belong to Starbucks popper. https://insideretail.com.au/news/7-eleven-buys-starbucks-201...
Re:Remembering my father
by strogonoff on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @08:07AM
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Does Starbucks corporation actually own Starbucks-branded coffeeshops in most countries other than the US? I thought usually it’s some local whale (like Maxim’s in HK/Macau) that buys the rights to the trademark and opens shops.