Sep 24 2007
New Starbucks generates protest from local community…
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With the spread of Starbucks threatening to totally dominate the global urban landscape, the residents of Whitechapel in Britain decided to give yet another intrusion, this time into their patch, a far from friendly welcome to their neighborhood.
They enlisted the help of a local team of pranksters who set up tables directly outside the new store and proceeded to put up posters like the one shown here and give away FREE tea and cakes.
Apparently the management of Starbucks were less than amused to see their opening day promotion thwarted this way.
Full details of this event can be found HERE
Thank you to John at businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk (an excellent site for new business ideas) for sending me links to this.
I live in Palm Beach and although I enjoy sipping on my lattes, some people here were really against the opening of a Starbucks on Worth Ave. Can there be too much of a good thing? It finally made it in here, but not without a fight.