Starbucks Begins to Suck

http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/saga/2008/10/29/starbucks-blues?page=full

It looks like Starbucks is looking a lot like Wal-Mart much to the chagrin of latte-sipping leftards. Times are getting tough.

Here's some advice for business. Stop offering benefits. Just pay cash. And lobby to put an end to overtime pay. Starbucks and Wal-Mart engage in a form of doublespeak where they try to pull off a triangulation of appeasement between government regulators, employees, unions, loony leftards, and the buying public. It is a losing game.

I believe that what kills the job market and the employee/employer relationship is the twin pincers of government and unions. Both achieve their ends through force which makes companies like GM fail and putting companies like Wal-Mart and Starbucks in a real bind.

You can't beat the laws of supply and demand. Starbucks has lost demand for its products because they cost too much. People are getting it cheaper elsewhere. The simple reality is that economics is the ultimate determiner of everything. All of the socialistic goodwill in the world will not change the fact that Starbucks is a business. A job is not a welfare program, amd capitalists are not evil for making a profit. The market has decided, and companies need to adjust. This includes employees.

My message to Starbucks employees is simple. Go work for Wal-Mart.

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