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Monday, November 27, 2006

Sometimes people give you a lot of reasons to hate them.
When you hate someone it either means:
a) Youre envious of what they have/are/do.
b) Their attitude just astound you to the point of hatred.
c) or you despise their character contemptuously.
Tell me whats the point on hating some major multinational company till you would make a website preaching your hatred to everyone. Stupid if you ask me. All you get is to get sued and thats if youre lucky. If youre unlucky you'll lend in jail. Say I hate Coffee Bean & tea leaf, I wouldnt want to make a website specially for me to spread my hatred. Check the dictionary for "common sense".
Have a look at
THIS website as an example.
"Before the Starbuckers begin their rebuttals, yes I know they sell Fair Trade coffee. But why do they continue to sell Un-Fair Trade coffee? All the drinks are made with sweatshop style labor. The Fair Trade stuff is sold in bean form only, to go. The sales of Fair Trade make up less than 0.001 % of total sales for the company."
"1. The vast majority of the coffee is grown using underpaid third world labor. -every MNC goes for cheap labour.
2. Starbucks is spreading across the world like a virus, infecting cultures with their formula of what a coffee shop should be. -its business. So what do you call those clothing brands? Versace, Guess, Gap, Juicy couture? Its everywhere. Its what i call a successful business.
3. They are everywhere. -ditto4. They have predatory business practices. Common practices are things like paying landlords to not renew leases for coffee shops so that they can move in.
5. They sell fake corporate responsibility.
6. I think that their coffee sucks. It is always bitter. -dude, its COFFEE. Its suppose to be bitter, stupid.
7. The gross profit margin per store is, on average, 59.1%, therefore there is plenty of wiggle room for the company to pay more than a dollar a pound for coffee. (read: livable wage for their slave labor)
8. Faux ecologic responsibility.
9. False employee benefits. They give part time workers (20 hours per week) health insurance. However, I have received hundreds of emails from employees that consistently receive 19.75. 15 minutes shy of earning those costly benefits.
10. The crap they sell is incredibly unhealthy. Get the nutritional information, from their website it is appalling. The Caramel Pecan Sticky Roll (which has more fat than a Big Mac) or even better (worse), the Eggnog Latte are so bad for you it is astounding."-erm hello? no one asked you to drink it everyday. McDonalds is bad but does that stop people from eating it?
I knew my geography skills could be of good use.
I'm through with doubt6:55 AM