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Starbucks' footprint in the United States, showing saturation of metropolitan areas. Some of the methods Starbucks has used to expand and maintain their dominant market position, including buying out competitors' leases, intentionally operating at a loss, and clustering several locations in a small geographical area (i.e., saturating the market), have been labeled anti-competitive by critics. [14]
Starbucks was sued for marketing its commitment to “100% ethical” sourcing while using some suppliers with “documented, severe human rights and labor abuses.”
An early use of the phrase in mass media was in 2010, in a Guardian article headlined "PR firms make London world capital of reputation laundering", a report which focused on the use of public relations (PR) firms by heads of state (including Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, Kazakhstan, and Sri Lanka) to obscure human rights abuses and corruption. [3]
Starbucks Workers United said Tuesday that 98% of union baristas have voted to authorize a strike as they seek a contract with the coffee giant.. Bargaining delegates are set to return to ...
Three weeks later, the Office of the Legislative Auditor released its report, “A Clinical Drug Study at the University of Minnesota Department of Psychiatry: The Dan Markingson Case.” [52] Noting that Markingson was an “extraordinarily vulnerable” subject, the report presented evidence of coercive recruitment practices, serious ...
Starbucks said in emailed statement the union's move to authorize the strike was disappointing, and that it was committed to reaching a final framework agreement.
Historian Lawrence B. Glickman identifies the free produce movement of the late 1700s as the beginning of consumer activism in the United States. [7] Like members of the British abolitionist movement, free produce activists were consumers themselves, and under the idea that consumers share in the responsibility for the consequences of their purchases, boycotted goods produced with slave labor ...
A TikTok user is sparking a major debate after sharing one dog's behavior in the Starbucks drive-thru line. Starbucks customer captures wild footage of pet dog’s ‘unsanitary’ drive-thru behavior