posting from Ray Schutte

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From: "Ray Schutte" <RSchutte@starbucks.com>
To: <LTanenb50@aol.com>, <community_garden@mallorn.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2003 20:56:27.0910 (UTC) FILETIME=[F6802A60:01C31411]

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Yep, Starbucks is competitive.  However, well run small coffee houses
often find that their business improves when Starbucks comes to town.
Small shops are the companies biggest competitors.  Here in Seattle some
might fine small coffee shops compete next door and quite successfully.
Don't take my word for it, look at both sides in well balance article in
the Wall Street Journal.
http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/wsjtoday/archive/02sep/02sep24_starbu
cks.htm.  I never took the remarks personally.  No person or corporation
is perfect, but I can tell you Starbucks works hard at being a good
Corporate citizen.



Ray Schutte

"The truth of the matter is that the flower has cleverly manipulated the
bee into hauling its pollen from blossom to blossom." The Botany of
Desire, Michael Pollan